Thought of the Day

  Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
   -- Abraham Lincoln

> News From Rome

  Vatican posts for women

  Holy See's Address on Status of Women

  Challenge of Sects Calls for Strong Evangelization, Says Pope

> The Religious World

  World's Priests Invited to Malta

  The Christian Crisis of Fidelity

  Churches Offer Free Movie to Boost Flocks

> The Battle for Life

  Official in male-saturated China sees disaster - The result of selective births ... and government involvement in a family's size

  Study: Maternal Death Rate From Abortions Three Times Higher than from Childbirth

  Sunday's Comin' - by Fr. Frank Pavone

  Italy fertility treatment curbed

  Church warns of designer children

  Women forced to have abortions?

  Church fights reemergence of euthanasia legislation

  Nurse gets 15 years for killing patient

> MRM Family News

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> News From The World Over

  New Haiti interim leader sworn in

  Putin Names Russia's New Foreign Minister

  Report: China arrests Roman Catholic bishop

  North Korea Adds New Condition for Scrapping Nukes

  Pitched battle in Gaza leaves 14 dead

  Saudi Arabia: Saudi clerics forbid Muslims to watch US Arabic channel

  Pakistan Tests Longest-Range Nuke-Capable Missile

  Zimbabwe 'seizes US cargo plane'

  Solo Woman North Pole Explorer Missing

> US Too ...

  DHS expands net to states, urban areas

  Surgery possible for Ashcroft

  Fingerprints could join fight against identity theft

  Texas: Gas Leaks From Deer Park Chemical Plant

  High-tech sonar to help search for water taxi victims

  Police lockdown schools as they search for burglary suspects

  Oscar-Nominated Actor Paul Winfield Dies

  US actor Spalding Gray found dead

  * 'Protection squad' for Gibson's Jesus - Security detail hired for James Caviezel as execs think movie's main stars targeted

  Kidnapped Girl Goes Home With Mom

> Monetary Madness

  Feds OK Mega-Bank Merger

> Into the Internet

  Worm Masquerades as Microsoft Patch

  Beware sober worm bearing gifts

  Current Internet Threat Level

  Symantec ThreatCon Rating

> Science & Stuff

  Device detects, traps and deactivates airborne viruses and bacteria using ’smart’ catalysts

  Intensive Cholesterol Lowering With Atorvastatin Halts Progression Of Heart Disease

  FDA Approves New Kidney Disease Drug

  Beagle 2 may have sped to its death

  Amazing Blue Band Around Jupiter!

  Climate Has History Of Fast Changes

> Nature's Nasties

  California Bakes in Record Heat

  UPDATE - Thousands still without power in Carolinas

  More Snow Predicted For North Carolina

  NC: Wind storm clips county

  Madagascar calls for international aid as cyclone ravages north

  Seven killed in Madagascar cyclone, 18 missing: rescue service

  Vietnam hard hit by drought

  Flood conditions continue in mid-Michigan

  Third Body Found From Ky. Flash Floods

  Four districts of Dagestan suffer from hurricane

  Quake hits Indonesia's Sumatra island

  Indonesia: Quake hits Bengkulu

  4.9 Quake hits northern Iranian city of Gorgan

  NM: Infant dies from whooping cough

  NY: Whooping cough cases found in Sarasota Springs

  Dengue fever spreads to almost every Indonesian province

  Uganda: Cholera Breaks Out in Masindi

  Influenza epidemic claims 16 lives in Nepal

  Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Pakistan

  Wild birds in Kyoto found to have flu virus

> The "Gay" Agenda

  Gay Episcopal bishop officially starts job

  Gay Legislator at the Center of a Storm in Georgia

> Endangered Sacrament: Marriage

  Oregon poll finds opposition to same-sex marriage

  Same-sex marriage fight reaches Washington state

  Homosexual "Wedding" First in Korea

  One State Won't Budge on Marriage Laws

> Messages From Heaven?

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  Portrait of Virgin Mary reportedly stops 'crying' after being given to priest

  Gibson Movie And Destruction Of Image In Florida: A Sword Is Piercing Many Hearts - by Michael Brown

  From Fatima To N.Y., Readers Continue To Report The Aid Of Mysterious Strangers - by Michael Brown

> Things To Ponder

  Home-schoolers find like politics at small college

  School's focus is on moral code and chastity

  Teens crave old fashioned values

  Jewish actor traded role in ‘Fiddler’ to play a high priest in ‘The Passion’

> Odds And Ends

  Nebraska Mayor Implements Shaving `ban'

  Neighbors Stage Stinky Intervention

  Twitchers horrified as hawk eats rare robin