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Governor Youngkin’s vetoes of coercive contraceptive bills

By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Barry C. Knestout

We are pleased that Governor Youngkin has vetoed SB 237/HB 609 and SB 238/HB 819. These bills threatened to compel organizations to provide and pay for contraceptives and even some abortion-inducing drugs and devices against their deeply and sincerely held beliefs. In SB 237/HB 609, the asserted “right” to contraception was alarmingly broad: It would …

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5/18/24

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Business lessons from the saints

By Jim Hale

John Cannon doesn’t do things half-hearted. After earning an MBA from Harvard University and a master’s in politics and international relations from Oxford University, he became an investment banker at 26 and started his own consulting firm two years later. “I was a high achiever, chasing a lot of success in my life and was …

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5/17/24

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Bishop Burbidge honored in Philadelphia

By Jim Hale

It was 1976, and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was 19 years old when he arrived on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. Forty-eight years later, Bishop Burbidge returned May 15 to the place where he spent eight years in priestly formation, to receive an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters, presented by …

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5/16/24

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Legendary baseball broadcaster was a joyful Catholic

By Jim Hale

Devoted baseball fans regard Vin Scully among the greatest, if not the greatest baseball broadcaster of all time. He was the voice of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years. Kevin O’Malley wants the world to know that Scully’s Catholic faith had everything to do with his popularity and success. “He was the nicest man …

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5/16/24

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