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In All Things
In the United States lawsuits are a way of communication Usually they communicate that the side that filed the lawsuit believes that the side they filed the lawsuit against is not listening to them is not respecting their rights is not giving them their due Lawsuits are last resorts or at l
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The Archdiocese of Washington today joined a rush of Catholic lawsuits around the country this week challenging the Department of Health and Human Services mandate on the inclusion of contraception in health care plans beginning August 2013 In California however Bishop Stephen E Blaire of the Di
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Sister Mary Johnson SND de Namur is a nbsp professor of sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston and a member of the Center for Applied nbsp Research on the Apostolate in Georgetown nbsp She joined me on nbsp The Brian Lehrer Show on nbsp New York City s public radio station WNYC nbsp for a
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Few psychiatrists apologize or have their regrets appear on the front page of the New York Times-- above the fold no less nbsp But Dr Robert Spitzer is rightly described as a giant of modern psychiatry nbsp He has made news many times by taking controversial stands against prevailing opinions
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nbsp nbsp Few psychiatrists apologize or have their regrets appear on the front page of the New York Times-- above the fold no less nbsp But Dr Robert Spitzer is rightly described as a giant of modern psychiatry nbsp He has made news many times by taking controversial stands against prevai
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Notre Dame has now joined a number of other Catholic institutions in filing suit against a new mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services that may require the inclusion of contraceptive services in health plans beginning in August 2013 at religious institutions such as Notre Dame and o
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Here s a lovely piece in The Boston Globe about Dan Kennedy a bright young man just graduated from Boston College who is entering the Jesuit novitiate this summer nbsp nbsp The profile nbsp gets pretty much everything right about its topic and avoids all the linguistic pitfalls that bedevil most
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From Andrea Tornielli of La Stampa via Mirada Global nbsp It looks like one of the destinies that Benedict XVI the theologian turned Pope at the age of 78 is similar to that of his predecessor Paul VI who appointed him Archbishop of Munich creating him cardinal in 1977- is that of being cr
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