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Morning Roundup - Saturday of Our Lady - Missa 'Salve Sancta Parens' - May 8th, 2010

ADW Blog >> Truth in the New Translation Series: # 2 – The Memento Domine or Commemoration of the Living in the Roman Canon A Trail of Flowers >> Faith Creative Minority Report >> Cancel Mother's Day! Now ! First Thoughts >> George Awarded National Human Rights Medal in Poland Insight Scoop >> Misery or happiness. What's your choice? Waiting...hello ? Insight Scoop >> What's the Point of Creeds ? Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Saturday, Easter Wk 5: "the world would love its own " New Liturgical Movement >> Solemn Requiem Mass for Cardinal Mayer at North American FSSP Seminary Secondhand Smoke >> Euthanizing Patients for Organs Advocated in Bioethics Standing on My Head >> Who Art in Heaven Standing on My Head >> Raquel Welch on Moral Values Te Deum laudamus >> Canon Law Update: Abortion and Confession The Way of the Fathers >> Since You Asked WDTPRS >> WDTPRS...

Afternoon Roundup - St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi (EF) or Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter - May 29th, 2009

American Papist >> "Christopher West’s Work is 'Completely Sound' says Dr. Janet Smith" Insight Scoop >> Piers Paul Read on EWTN's "The World Over" tonight... RORATE CÆLI >> "'They' truly desire the demise of the Catholic Church" The Alphonsianum >> Salvation Alone is Necessary WDTPRS >> PCED: Clarification on the use of the ancient Ambrosian Rite WDTPRS >> Archbp. Nienstedt to pro-homosexual group: “The truths of our faith are not open to debate” WDTPRS >> Discussion between D. Kmiec and R. George on the Obama Administration WDTPRS >> Nice, France: ONE Mass for the whole diocese on Pentecost

Catholic Review Online: Health care workers urged to fight for conscience rights

The Catholic Review contains two stories which touch on the conscience rights of physicians that are in jeopardy. George P. Matysek, Jr. covers the symposium on conscience rights that took place May 9th at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson . This was the first symposium of what may become an annual event to be sponsored by Archbishop Edwin O'Brien. Dr. Janet Smith of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit gave the keynote address: In the keynote address, Dr. Janet Smith, Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, outlined the church’s teachings on conscience – emphasizing that conscience isn’t an opinion about what’s right and wrong; it is “listening to the voice of God within.” “There is an erroneous view of conscience that says individuals independently are faced with their own truth,” Dr. Smith said. Addressing the church’s teachings on sexuality, Dr. Smith said the sexual act “should express a willingness to have a lifetime ...