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Two stories appearing next to each other in this morning’s Argus made me wonder: Is it any wonder Iran, North Korea, etc., think they need to develop nuclear weapons or that we have no credibility when it comes to these issues? At the top of page 3 was an Associated Press article that “the United […] As a follow-up to an earlier post, the August Bishop’s Bulletin of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls indeed contains (on pages 2 and 3 of the print version) Bishop Carlson’s “instruction” that Catholics who vote for pro-choice candidates commit a mortal sin and are not Catholics in good standing. The material published by the […] More details regarding the teen page on the South Dakota State Library web site raises more questions about the propriety of Gov. Mike Rounds’ decision to yank the page. Contrary to Rounds’ initial assertions, it turns out this wasn’t a page developed by just two people at the State Library. Instead, the page was previewed […] The South Dakota State Library has now totally pulled down a teen section on its web site. The dispute started following complaints it contained a link to a Planned Parenthood site. The complaint that seems to have brought the most attention is when Robert Carlson, bishop of the Sioux Falls diocese of the Roman Catholic […] I just finished Karen Armstrong’s memoir, The Spiral Staircase. (By coincidence, the book section in today’s Guardian has an excellent biographical piece about her. And Powell’s has an interview here.) Armstrong is a British woman who left the convent after seven years and the book details her struggles in coming to terms with a society […] |
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