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On the afternoon of April 9, churches across the country rang their bells in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.

The backlash from a new Indiana law has been fierce, ranging from angry editorials to calls to boycott the state.

I didn’t know it then, but back in 2001, I was interviewing teens who would move on to careers that put them in the spotlight. In addition to Candace Dold, who I featured in my most recent “Where are they now” blog post, I also had an opportunity to meet

Carafem, a new clinic in a Washington suburb that offers a spa-type setting for women seeking an abortion using RU-486, seems to be telling women “that abortion is not complicated at all,” according to a commentary posted on National Right to Life’s online news site.

(Photo: Getty Images)—“For see, the winter is past,the rains are over and gone.The flowers appear on the earth,the time of pruning the vines has come,and the song of the turtledove is heard in our land.”— Song of Songs 2: 11-12After a long, hard winter, the weather in many areas of

Other people collect scarves or go rock climbing or take up bird watching.My current passion? Hosting prayer gatherings.So far they have all been for expectant mothers and their babies. I invite a few friends over to say the rosary.We nibble on something, pray together, laugh and share stories, and everyone