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				<title>God can write straight with crooked lines...an update on Medjugorje</title>				
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	Christmas will not come early for Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno in Bosnia and Herzegovina who has been waiting impatiently it seems for an official Vatican statement on Medjugorje.

	Cardinal Christoph Sch&amp;ouml;nborn was supposed to be maki...
				
				
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				<title>Non-believers can accept faith without ever denying reason, says former student of secularism</title>				
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	&amp;ldquo;Reason is a gift from God that we should use and for which we must be grateful,&amp;rdquo; says Vittorio Messori, a convert from secularism who has never given up on reason.

	Best known as the first journalist in history to publish a book-le...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:11:59 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Obama&apos;s spin on famous H.S.T. quote, &quot;the buck stops here&quot;</title>				
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	Having U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to decide on the venue for the confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged underlings, is the latest in a string of decisions on which the president has &amp;ldquo;passed the buck.&amp;rdquo;...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:11:51 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>D.C. councilman tells Catholic Church: shut up or shut down</title>				
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	Question: Where have you heard this happen before: politicians refusing to include protections for religious organizations while securing protections for LGBT people?

	Answer: As U.S. law makers wrote the new hate crimes bill that adds homosexu...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:13:36 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Oprah fails to resurrect show&apos;s sinking ratings, consequence of inventing her own god, critics say</title>				
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	Seeking some serious damage control after her decision to air the disfigured face of chimp mauling victim Charla Nash, Oprah turned to her BFF Gayle King. On Thursday, Oprah called in to King&amp;rsquo;s radio show and discussed the &amp;ldquo;importance ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:07:53 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>How new hate crimes bill may be inspiring same-sex marriage supporters in Maine</title>				
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	&amp;ldquo;Pastors and churches have a right to speak about biblical truths from the pulpit without fear of punishment,&amp;rdquo; said Erik Stanley, Senior Legal Counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund.

	But, do they, now that their teachings rooted in...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:55:50 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Pentecostal preacher powers against possessed witches and pagan demons in Kenya</title>				
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	Pastor Lawrence Omambia spends one Sunday each month at the Community of Christ church in Kisii, Kenya exorcising the worshippers by the &amp;lsquo;laying on of hands&amp;rsquo; on their foreheads, and shouting in Kiswahli, &amp;quot;I command evil spirits to...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:24:29 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Like father, like son: Patrick Kennedy dissents from Catholic teaching on abortion</title>				
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	It is common, unfortunately, that many public figures calling themselves Catholic fail to stand courageously with the teachings of the Church. Among this group, of course, are the politicians who say they feel an obligation to separate their perso...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:31:24 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Don&apos;t be fooled: Stupak amendment passed in House health care bill, likely to fail in Senate</title>				
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	Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women (NOW) are angry over last Saturday night&amp;rsquo;s passage of the Stupak amendment that would prevent abortion funding&amp;nbsp;from being&amp;nbsp;part of Obama&amp;rsquo;s health care plan.

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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:43:02 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Pelosi should &quot;return to city of fruitcakes and nuts,&quot; wants you to buy $15k policy or go to jail</title>				
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	Adding to the&amp;nbsp;latest public clamor against Nancy Pelosi -- making its way&amp;nbsp;through cyberspace despite what some say is a &amp;ldquo;complete waste&amp;nbsp;of electrons&amp;rdquo; --&amp;nbsp;is a letter written to the Speaker back in August.&amp;nbsp;In&amp;nbs...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:10:21 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>&quot;Murdered by Muslim Terrorists,&quot; &quot;too controversial&quot; or too politically incorrect for Kent, CT</title>				
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	James Gadiel was murdered by Muslim terrorists. The 2,976 Americans killed along with James were murdered by Muslim terrorists. New York City and the nation for weeks and months following 9/11 feared another attack on U.S. soil was imminent and th...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:06:41 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Halloween handed down from demon lore of the ancient Druids, deemed &apos;Anti-Christian&apos;</title>				
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	Halloween is an anti-Christian pagan holiday of &amp;quot;terror, fear and death,&amp;quot; say the Vatican.

	It&amp;rsquo;s secular name and observance of pranks, masquerading, &amp;quot;trick or treat,&amp;quot; etcetera, was taken from the great Christian feast...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:39:03 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Church launches grassroots campaign to fight government support of abortion</title>				
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	Lawmakers aren&amp;rsquo;t listening to the majority of Americans who adamantly oppose a government run health care system. They aren&amp;rsquo;t listening to Catholic concerns about health care reform either.&amp;nbsp;Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have no...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:42:48 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Hate crimes case in Britain should signal a warning to Christians in America</title>				
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	The problem is not exclusive to Great Britain. More than ever before, free speech and religious freedoms are under attack right here in America.
	
	In last night&amp;rsquo;s legal segment of Fox&amp;rsquo;s &amp;#39;The O&amp;rsquo;Reilly Factor,&amp;#39; the panel...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:56:24 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>&quot;Abortion is the antithesis of hope,&quot; theme Obama ran on</title>				
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	Pro-life champion and human rights and victim protections advocate Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.),&amp;nbsp;spoke against the danger of federally-funded abortion being a part of health care reform. Addressing those at the health care press conferenc...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:29:13 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>&apos;Another Angel&apos; shining the light of heaven during days of darkness</title>				
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	It is upon us. The darkness of a secularized and sacrilegious Halloween will be in full force this week and upcoming weekend. For Christians uninterested in giving any credence to witches and demons, here is a story to give the glory of the season...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:39:14 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Obama&apos;s socialism success &quot;requires destruction of family and church,&quot; says U.S. senator</title>				
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	A United States senator this week is the latest person to echo Rush Limbaugh&amp;rsquo;s sentiment, &amp;ldquo;Americans should want Obama to fail.&amp;rdquo; Why? Because the president&amp;rsquo;s socialist policies threaten human life and the family.
	
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				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:21:01 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>God sabotaged world&apos;s largest particle accelerator, say scientists in Copenhagen</title>				
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	&amp;ldquo;A couple of scientists reckon that God or time travelers broke the Large Hadron Collider.&amp;rdquo; The duo, who are, remarkably, still walking the streets, have published a paper claiming that the world&amp;rsquo;s largest particle accelerator, w...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:29:14 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Eucharistic Miracle in Poland questions the gift to perceive greatness beyond self</title>				
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	When a child&amp;nbsp;falls onto the tracks of an oncoming train and survives with&amp;nbsp;only a bump on the head, we marvel and call it a miracle. Well, not everyone, of course; Atheists and Humanists think these events are mere coincidences. And it&amp;rs...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:02:07 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Global warming a pretext for change to 1-world government, says Thatcher aide</title>				
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	A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:56:28 -0700</pubDate>
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