Pope

1. "The Pope! How many divisions has he got?" -Joseph Stalin

Rome

1. "Rome is called the Apostolic throne." - St. Athanasius (AD 362), Hist. Arian, ad Monach. n. 35 (1/30/13)

Margaret Sanger

1. "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." -Margaret Sanger (1/24/13)

Original Sin

1. "Original Sin is nothing else than despising the authority of God and, consequently, all authority." -John D. Meehan

Total Depravity

1. To claim the total depravity of man as Calvin did is to deny the conscience. Any person with conscience knows the conscience exist. (1/18/13)
2. Calvinist make a distinction without a difference between total depravity and utter depravity, but total means 100%. You can not be more depraved than 100% depraved. (1/19/13)

Cough

1. "There is a mismatch between patients’ expectations regarding the duration of ACI [cough] and the actual duration based on the best available evidence." "The mean duration of cough in the published literature was 17.8 days. Survey respondents reported a median duration of 5 to 7 days" (doi: 10.1370/afm.1430Ann Fam MedJanuary/February 2013vol. 11 no. 1 5-13, 1/15/13)

Family Meal

1. "Devoting just three or four extra minutes per day to family mealtimes helps to reduce the risk of childhood obesity." (International Business Times 1/18/13)
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Autism

1. "Some children who are accurately diagnosed in early childhood with autism lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has confirmed."  (NIMH, 1/16/13)

Values

1. Values are relative. Virtue is an absolute. (1/12/13)

Disc Herniation

1. "Obese patients realized less clinical benefit from both operative and nonoperative treatment of lumbar disc herniation." (J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2013 Jan 02;95(1):1-8. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.K.01558, 1/11/13)

Eggs

1. "Higher consumption of eggs (up to one egg per day) is not associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease or stroke." (BMJ 2013; 346 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8539 (Published 7 January 2013)Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:e8539, 1/9/10)

Contraception

1. Attraction 101: How The Pill Affects Your Dating Choices (1/8/13)

Prudence

1. Definition (1/7/13)
1. "doing what is right"- Bill Donohue (1/7/13)
2. "right reason in action"- Aquinas (1/7/13)
3. Reason tells us what is possible. Prudence tells us what is right..(1/7/13)
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Gun Control

1. Jesus on gun control: "if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." (12/31/12)
2. "those correlations ["nations with more guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide)"]are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world." WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AND SOME DOMESTIC EVIDENCE DON B. KATES* AND GARY MAUSER (8/30/13)

Crying Babies

1. Psychology professor, Marsha Weinraub and team believe than in the vast majority of cases,the infant should be left to self-soothe and go back to sleep without any help.(Medical News Today, 1/3/13)

Vision

1. "Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare." - Dr. David Jeremiah (1/1/13)

Virtue

1. Definition (1/7/13)
1. "a good habit" -William C. Mattison III (1/7/13)
2. "[T]he Ten Commandments tell us what not to do; virtue tells us what to do." - Bill Donohue, Why Catholicism Matters, page 24 (1/1/13)
3. Forced "virtue" is no virtue. (5/19/13)
4. A person can no more instantly become virtuous than he can instantly learn to play the piano. (8/22/13)
5. Types (1/7/13)
1. Cardinal Virtues 
1. Prudence (1/7/13)
2. Justice (1/7/13)
3. Fortitude (1/7/13)
4. Temperance (1/7/13)
2. Theological Virtues (1/7/13)
1. Faith (1/7/13)
2. Hope (1/7/13)
3. Charity (1/7/13)