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In 2009, Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government funding and performed 329,008 abortions. Congressman Mike Pence recently introduced legislation to prohibit funding to any organization that performs abortion. As Pence says: The largest abortion provider in America should not also be . . . . Continue Reading »

Tong Phuoc Phuc is a one-man Crisis Pregnancy Center. (Via: Creative Minority Report ) Note: My friend Sarah Pulliam Bailey from Christianity Today pointed out that this story is from 2008. Still, it’s such a timeless story that if you haven’t heard about it before it’s worth . . . . Continue Reading »

A Queen’s University Classics professor may have found a reference that Dan Brown missed. Ross Kilpatrick believes the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch . The technique of taking a passage from . . . . Continue Reading »

We’re excited to announce that our friend and contributing writer Elizabeth Scalia has taken a job as the Managing Editor of the  Catholic Portal at Patheos . Sadly, it also means that her blog, The Anchoress, has moved to Patheos too. The new address is . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Why are thousands of dead birds suddenly falling from the sky? Let’s quickly review the facts. Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings fell from the sky within a one-mile area over the town of Beebe, Arkansas. The last . . . . Continue Reading »

For the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, Egyptian Muslims offered their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to protect the threatened Christian community : Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had a been a promise of solidarity to the weary . . . . Continue Reading »

In order to become a US citizen, immigrants must pass the Naturalization Test. Applicants must get six answers out of ten in an oral exam to pass the test. According to US Citizenship and Immigration services, ninety-two percent of applicants pass this test. The Christian Science Monitor has an . . . . Continue Reading »

You’ve probably found yourself watching the Discovery Channel and thinking to yourself, “You know what would be better than shows about sharks? Shows about real people being possessed by demons .” No? Just me? Okay, so I guess I’ll be the only one watching The Exorcist Files . . . . Continue Reading »

The board of directors for the Institute on Religion and Public Life has released the following statement: Joseph Bottum and the Board of the Institute on Religion and Public life have agreed that Dr. Bottum’s service as editor of First Things would end as of December 1 to allow Dr. Bottum to . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not only one of the greatest works of literature ever produced in America, it’s also one of the works most often targeted to be banned in public and school libraries. That is why the only thing I find surprising about a publisher releasing a . . . . Continue Reading »