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I am completely baffled by “Catholic health care is not threatened by FOCA” (CR, Feb. 5). The article reads like a pro-choice defense of FOCA. The main support comes from a Sister Carol Keehan (CHA president and CEO) who states that even if a federal law were to mandate that all hospitals provide abortion services, “Catholic health care will not close and we will not compromise our principles.”

Even though there are multitudes of governmental services that benefit seniors, it’s not always easy navigating the bureaucracy.

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, labeled as “deeply offensive and utterly false” remarks denying the Holocaust made by a formerly schismatic bishop whose excommunication was lifted in January by Pope Benedict XVI.

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will unveil his vision for Catholic education’s future in two closed-door consultation meetings Feb. 10 and 12 at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia.

The recent article “Catholics to tune in for inauguration” (CR, Jan. 15) was both interesting and disappointing. The decision rendered to keep schools open on inauguration day bespoke of cultural inadequacy and the added policy of recording a student’s absence as “unexcused” raised once again gross insensitivity. The policy served as a barrier of evangelization and raises our concern for our Catholic school system in affirming families who took the inauguration as an opportunity for both civic as well as educational enhancement. Some young people attended the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Mass at New All Saints, went on retreat and saw the inauguration of President Barack Obama as an act of the sweeping hand of God in history. As our teachers and parents increase our awareness of bigotry and racism, this decision did not set well among many people of color.

Parables come packaged in different ways. Mine often come in the form of cats and dogs! Allow me to share some leftover stories from the holidays.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication of four bishops ordained against papal orders in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The move was considered a major concession to the archbishop’s traditionalist followers.