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Pray today

It's the National Day of Prayer, but there's no need to get out the books to participate. Instead, reach for your iPhone. There are iPhone applications...

Slipping up on the slippery slope

Having posted on what I think is overheated and, in the final analysis, completely counterproductive rhetoric on abortion, I ran across an instance of an...

Tweet prayers

Twitter, text, and e-mail can be used every day to send out prayers, suggests Irish Cardinal Sean Brady. “Such a sea of prayer is sure to strengthen our sense...

St. Jude, patron of swine flu?

Saint Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, is taking on the cause of swine flu, it seems. See this picture from Mexico of a St. Jude statue with its mouth...