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ProLifePhilippines has an article on Mother Teresa's sisters teaching Natural Family Planning.

In the west, people would ridicule a celibate person doing this, but Hinduism has a long history of asceticism:

(Mahatma Gandhi) "like Mother Teresa advocated “birth control through self-control” or brahmacharya. "

Mother Teresa recalled a poor parent who once told her, “You people who have practiced chastity, you are the best people to teach us natural family planning because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other.”

Yeah, imagine poor people who love each other...

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Unlike the Republicans, I don't have a problem with Sotomyer calling herself "a wise Latina", because the US Supreme court has always had their Jewish and Black seats to ensure a wide range of opinion.

I do have problems with someone calling herself "a wise Latina" however....what is her criteria for wisdom, and calling oneself wise smacks of egotism...

oh yes, and she won't change the abortion law, which she now says is "settled law".

Ah, she misses the point: laws can be changed, Fiats by the Supreme court can't be changed.

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Justice Bader didn't propose eugenics, she just spilled the beans : everyone back then knew that the Supreme court Justices decided to change the law so that poor women could abort their kids safely and legally. (The real problem is her comfort with judicial activism, not eugenics.)

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Reverend Sensing links to a movement to pray for terrorists, so that their hearts can be converted.

One is reminded of Ann Coulter's non PC quip:"...We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity...."
She was lambasted as if she were encouraging forced conversions, but the reality is a culture of hatred pushed by the Saudi's in many countries needed to be fought spiritually...and many countries are pushing Sufi approach to God instead of rule oriented fundamentalism of the Saudis.
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Quote of the day

comes from "Spengler":

Writing in Newsweek July 9 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend argues that “Barack Obama represents American Catholic better than the pope does.” Of course, the pope is only the Bishop of Rome, whereas Obama is God.

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LATimes notices Manila Squatters.

Ah, but the Manila elites are still lamenting the death of a damned monkey (actually, an Orangutan)

“But at the Manila Zoo, Sisi was denied the opportunity to fulfill her most basic needs,” PETA said. “She was torn from her Borneo home as a baby and lived a life of profound deprivation.”

Good. Let her live along a muddy flood plain and use the zoo's money to build decent housing for the kids.

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American Papist has more on dismissing the President's Bioethics council, and Doctor Kheariarty notes:
Rather than setting aside thorny issues or complex questions in favor of simplistic policy recommendations, the old Council chose to allow sustained and serious reflection, debate, and dialogue among its diverse membership. The President’s Council on Bioethics never became a rubber-stamp machine for Bush’s social policies.

All that is about to change. Obama wants to waste no time with dialogue, debate, or indecision. He plans to ask the new commission for “practical policy options”. Don’t think too hard, don’t debate too long … just give us the green light. There will be few, if any, dissenting voices: Obama is about to appoint a collective “yes man”.

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The really depressing news is found at Secondhand Smoke Blog

And in the US (and the UK), euthanasia is the new "abortion": lots of sympathetic articles, but few pointing out a lot of the victims weren't terminally ill or even in pain.