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2012-07-02T08:54:22-05:00

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Meet Mark, A Catholic Voice for Freedom

Last updated on: July 2, 2012 at 8:54 am By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Mark O’Neill served in Afghanistan in the U.S. Army and continues his service as a Catholic Voice, helping to make the case for the Church in the public square. What does the Fortnight mean to you? The Fortnight is an opportunity to pause and reflect on our heritage of religious freedom here in the United States. I see it as a period of prayer and public action that emphasizes “our first, most cherished liberty.” A liberty guaranteed by the First... Read more

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Fortnight for Freedom

Mark O'Neill

2012-07-01T13:40:37-05:00

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‘All of Us … Are Called to Sanctity’

Last updated on: July 1, 2012 at 1:40 pm By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Speaking of Saint Josemaria Escriva on his feast day this past week, Timothy Cardinal Dolan talked about Escriva and his message of universal sanctification. Cardinal Dolan said, in part: The universal call to holiness is perhaps his greatest legacy. That all of us baptized members of his Church who consider ourselves to be redeemed by the Most Precious Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ are called to sanctity, to perfection, to the pursuit of heroic virtue, to cast... Read more

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Timothy Cardinal Dolan

Universal Call to Holiness

2012-06-30T12:39:44-05:00

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Saving Lives with Love & Compassion

Last updated on: June 30, 2012 at 12:39 pm By Kathryn Jean Lopez

I was just preparing for a panel at the National Right to Life Committee annual convention today and was rereading this exchange I had recently with Austen Ivereigh, author of How to Defend the Church Without Raising Your Voice (and co-founder of Catholic Voices, which I have mentioned once or twice). I think it is very much worth further reflection: LOPEZ: “Behind every criticism of the Church, however apparently hostile or prejudiced, is an ethical value,” you write. “The critic,”... Read more

How to Defend the Church Without Raising Your Voice

National Right to Life Committee

Unplanned

2012-06-28T19:03:30-05:00

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Can You Tell Me How We Got to the HHS Mandate?

Last updated on: June 28, 2012 at 7:03 pm By Kathryn Jean Lopez

This seems appropriate to quote; it is part of the picture: The content of the spiritual life is defined for Christians by fulfilling obligations of love towards their neighbor — but those obligations do not arise from a doctrine of human rights: they derive from the command of Christ. The difference is crucial: when Christians come to regard the service of their brothers and sisters as a response to their demands and rights as humans (commonly part of the vocabulary... Read more

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Edward R. Norman

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Secularisation

2012-11-26T13:06:44-05:00

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Meet Allison, a Catholic Voice for Freedom

Last updated on: November 26, 2012 at 1:06 pm By Kathryn Jean Lopez

On the eighth day of the Fortnight of Freedom, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on an aspect of the president’s health-care law, and religious freedom remained in peril in the United States. Allison Baughman, a young Catholic Voice from Connecticut, talks about her call at this time. What does the Fortnight mean to you? The Fortnight for Freedom in my eyes is an extremely prayer-filled, hopeful attempt to overturn any governmental law impeding religious rights. I believe we... Read more

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Catholic Voices USA

Fortnight for Freedom

Religious Liberty

2012-06-27T08:10:14-05:00

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Meet Domenick, a Catholic Voice for Freedom

Last updated on: June 27, 2012 at 8:10 am By Kathryn Jean Lopez

We’re in Day 7 of the Fortnight of Freedom and here I continue to share some of the young people I’ve been able to spend time with thanks to Catholic Voices USA, a new effort based on a successful British model to better equip lay people to answer the call to be defenders of the Church in the public square, with love and joy. Yesterday you met Melissa. This morning, Domenick Canale, who works in real-estate property management and at start-up... Read more

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2012-06-27T04:38:27-05:00

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To Be Free

Last updated on: June 27, 2012 at 4:38 am By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Via Blessed John Paul II: My sons and daughters, you have pointed out at your Congress the sufferings and the contradictions by which a society is seen to be overwhelmed when it moves away from God. The wisdom of Christ makes you capable of pushing on to discover the deepest source of evil existing in the world. And it also stimulates you to proclaim to all men, your companions in study today, and in work tomorrow, the truth you have... Read more

2012-06-26T10:37:29-05:00

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Meet Melissa, a Catholic Voice for Freedom

Last updated on: June 26, 2012 at 10:37 am By Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Fortnight of Freedom continues during a historic week in the United States, as we all await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the president’s health care law. Whatever happens Thursday, conscience rights remain unprotected in the U.S., and the education and prayers of these 14 days will remain a service to all Americans who value freedom itself. Catholic Voices USA is a new effort based on a British model to make the case for the Church in the public square.... Read more

2012-06-25T18:33:15-05:00

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‘The sacrament of penance was the turning point.’

Last updated on: June 25, 2012 at 6:33 pm By Kathryn Jean Lopez

A revert to Catholicism talks about the power of the sacrament of Confession: I was a young man, and now intensely interested in women and related matters. As high school went on, I began to party more and pray less. My faith dwindled. When I got to college, I threw myself into two things: partying and philosophy. The mix was a deadly cocktail for what little faith I had left, and within months of being in college I lost my... Read more

The Catholic University of America

2012-06-25T14:28:01-05:00

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Have You Done Your Fortnight Reading Today?

Last updated on: June 25, 2012 at 2:28 pm By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Via the USCCB: The religious acts whereby men, in private and in public and out of a sense of personal conviction, direct their lives to God transcend by their very nature the order of terrestrial and temporal affairs. Government, therefore, ought indeed to take account of the religious life of the people and show it favor, since the function of government is to make provision for the common welfare. However, it would clearly transgress the limits set to its power... Read more

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