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2024-11-18T03:38:42-07:00

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Medicare Lightens Readmission Penalties

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 3:38 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Hospitals in areas that serve large numbers of poor people run into higher readmission rates. That’s a fact of life that has far more to do with the circumstances of the patient’s lives than it does with the care they are receiving in the hospitals. When a hospital discharges, say, a patient who was suffering from an acute asthma attack, it is usually after they have administered drugs and treatments to get the asthma under control. If they attack was... Read more

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2024-11-18T04:10:03-07:00

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Vatican Signs Deal with China

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 4:10 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Christianity in the wild is a revolutionary force and the enemy of tyrants everywhere. That is why totalitarian governments and dictators work so hard to either eradicate Christianity or domesticate it into some vapid, politically-controlled and bribed fake christianity that knows not Christ. China is using both methods at once in dealing with its 60-million-and-growing Christian population. The domestication part is taking place in its negotiations with the Holy See. The Catholic Church has a real weakness in its witness... Read more

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2024-11-18T04:15:23-07:00

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I Will Not Leave the Catholic Church. This is Why.

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 4:15 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I’ve been asked several times why I stay Catholic in the face of 20 years of dark scandal involved deep failures on the part of the priesthood, the bishops, and as has recently come to light, the papacy going back at least to Pope Paul VI. This column, which I wrote for the National Catholic Register, is answer. I’ve been treading water ever since the Church sex abuse scandal started touching the Throne of Peter. I won’t go into all... Read more

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2024-11-18T10:42:42-07:00

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Cancer Treatment and Your Heart

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 10:42 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Cancer treatments are poison. The big problem with killing cancer lies in the fact that your cancer is you. It is your own cells gone rogue. That means the anything that kills the cancer can — and will, if it’s not used very carefully — kill you. It also means that even when it is used very carefully, it will still be killing you. The trick — and it is a trick — is to give the poison that kills... Read more

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2024-11-18T10:50:44-07:00

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Vatican Signs Provisional Agreement with China

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 10:50 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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The Vatican has signed its “provisional agreement” with China. From The Washington Post: The Vatican said on Saturday that it had reached a “provisional agreement” with China on the process used to appoint bishops, a breakthrough after years of contentious negotiations on the management of Catholic leadership in the communist country. The deal paves the way for bishops to be recognized by the Vatican and the Chinese government, a step toward ending the current system — one that has divided... Read more

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2024-11-18T10:59:16-07:00

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Christian Persecution: Nigeria

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 10:59 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Christian persecution by Boko Haram, a muslim terrorist group, is intense in Northern Nigeria. Read more

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2024-11-18T11:13:44-07:00

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Anonymous Op Ed Describes White House Coup by Charade

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 11:13 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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An anonymous I’m-on-the-inside-subverting-the-President New York Times piece made me gag. The New York Times recently published an anonymous Op Ed piece that it says was written by someone high in the Trump administration and inside the White House. The author of the piece details why he and other staffers are using their positions to subvert the president and essentially govern the country themselves through lies and charade. This person intones that he or she feels that some of the things... Read more

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2024-11-18T11:19:41-07:00

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Pope Francis Prayer Intention for September

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 11:19 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Pope Francis’ prayer intention for September is for young people in Africa. From Vatican News: Africa is a wealthy continent, and its greatest, most valuable resource is its young people. They should be able to choose between letting themselves be overcome by difficulty or transforming the difficulty into an opportunity. The most effective way to help them in this choice is to invest in their education. If young people don’t have the possibility of education, what future can they have?... Read more

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2024-11-18T11:23:29-07:00

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Why Do We Hate the Pope for Telling Us the Truth?

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 11:23 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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It’s like some sort of rule. The more wrong a thing is that people want to do, the meaner and madder they get when you tell them they can’t do it. The truth is, everybody’s got somebody they feel righteous about hating, and a lot of people have whole groups of people that they feel righteous about killing. One group that falls into this category quite frequently is prisoners of any sort, but those convicted of heinous crimes most particularly. ... Read more

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2024-11-18T12:26:11-07:00

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Bishops Respond to McCarrick Outrage with Religious-Speak

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 12:26 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out many demons, and in your name perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me you evildoers. Jesus Christ Facts are stubborn... Read more

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