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• Crime Stoppers offers record reward in unsolved slaying of Iranian medical researcher

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • You can bet it was a Martian or some reptile-like creature from deep inside the Earth. Or most likely The Army of the Guardian Angles of the Bermuda Triangle.

• Franciscan University drops student health insurance plan over birth control mandate, costs

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • @Really... You say you're not Catholic and then you go and basically say that the issue of women's access to birth control is a core belief issue for Catholics? I don't think so.

• Rescued girl tells sister: 'Now we can go home'

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • These 2 girls have suffered a lot (of which we don't know the full extent), but we can hope (or pray) that their spirits will heal and that they will have happy future lives that transcend this misery.

• Rescued girl tells sister: 'Now we can go home'

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • In the first thread of posts on this story, people went off and talked about the quality of the grammar & writing technique in the story, virtually ignoring the sadness that these two girls have suffered and will likely continue to suffer in their futures.

• Rescued girl tells sister: 'Now we can go home'

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • The article: And then there are the painful questions that need to be answered. Did Mayes hurt them? Did they watch their mom and big sister die? NO! Such questions do not need to be answered! Haven't these girls suffered enough?

• Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • I doubt that Jesus envisioned there being billions of people thousands of years after His life making some claims of 'following' Him. Whatever images Jesus had in mind when He said something like "...

• Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • "Thought police"? Who amongst Jesus & the first 20 in His closest circle was Chief of Thought Police? Did the 12 Apostles have to sign a "full & unconditional assent" to adhere to 18 (or whatever) membership requirements? Did Jesus give a gag order to His admirers that they …

• Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • No need to "throw out the baby with the bathwater" -- just because the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy has lost touch with the realities of life & society the world 'round, doesn't mean that the Church, the Body of Christ, composed of all its members, is irrelevant or wilting.

• Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • Perhaps God's omniscient plan in Cardinal Ratzinger becoming Pope Benedict XVI is that this Pope's term would wake up faithful Christians to the point to where the next pope chosen will be holier, wiser, humbler, and more attuned to respecting human lives within family situations.

• Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • Originally, they were called the "Apostles".