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Daily Links, Feb. 3: Decisions, changed and contested

Friday, February 3, 2012
In big news today, the Komen foundation has gone back on its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives,” said Nancy G. Brinker, Komen’s chief executive.

Will Catholics swing on the HHS mandate, or is it really the economy (stupid)?

Friday, February 3, 2012
Peggy Noonan over at the Wall Street Journal (subscribers only; HT to Kevin Clarke at America) warns that the Obama's administration's contraception mandate has awoken a "sleeping giant": "The church is split on many things. But do Catholics in the pews want the government telling their church to contravene its beliefs?

Sister versus sex traffickers: I'm putting my money on the sisters

Friday, February 3, 2012
As the contraception contretemps continues, there is another Catholic story that deserves just as much mention: The role of U.S. women religious (and women religious the world over) in the fight against sex trafficking, most of whose victims are women and children.Sister Pat Bergen of the Sisters of St.

Detention center resisted by small town

Friday, February 3, 2012
Crete is thirty miles south of Chicago. I used to pass through it on the way to the Claretian’s high school seminary. It is a small, rather rural community, intent on maintaining its small town character as the Chicago megalopolis creeps south. Already it is joined into a congressional district represented by Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. of Chicago.

Daily Links, Feb. 2: More winter, humor, and questions

Thursday, February 2, 2012
You’ve probably heard already, but in case not, I hate to be the bearer of bad/(good?

What does this prayer really say?

Thursday, February 2, 2012
"At a time when it’s easy to lose ourselves in the rush and clamor of our own lives, or get caught up in the noise and rancor that too often passes as politics today, these moments of prayer slow us down. These moments of prayer slow us down. They humble us.

Should Catholic institutions employ non-Catholics?

Thursday, February 2, 2012
This morning I woke up to Sister Mary Ann Walsh's voice on my radio: "Nobody is forced to work for the Catholic Church," she said.

Daily Links, Feb. 1: Good news on Afghanistan, bad news for Planned Parenthood, and Romney's poor choice of words

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
As we kick off February, the big news story now making the rounds this afternoon is the announcement of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan will end as early as the middle of next year.Another big story that broke late in the day yesterday is the announcement that Susan G. Komen for the Cure will no longer fund Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screenings.

Komen ends funding of Planned Parenthood--but what happens next?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
There has been a wide range of reactions to the news that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a well-known charity devoted to ending breast cancer, has severed ties with Planned Parenthood, ending what had been a very controversial relationship.

"I'm not concerned about the very poor": Romney's view from the top

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The morning after a big win in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney is all over the headlines—but it’s not for his victory. Instead, it’s for remarks he made to CNN stating that he isn't concerned with the country's poor."I'm not concerned about the very poor." he said. "We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine.