By Father Eduardo Montemayor
Posted on The Caller Times on October 6, 2009
Let’s challenge our teens not to be slaves to their passions, but instead to be truly free to be the best version of themselves — the best human beings that they can be — a person fully alive.
This is in response to the Caller-Times editorial from Sept. 27, titled “Providing funds for programs that truly work.”
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Clad in bright blue t-shirts bearing the message "One Catholic Voice" and armed with information outlining the Texas Bishop's positions on various pieces of pending legislation Texas Catholics descended upon the State Capitol to visit their representatives and make those positions known. The group, approximately, 350 people from 15 dioceses across the state, was part of the Texas Catholic Conference's Respect Life and Family Life Advocacy Day on March 31.
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The Choose Life License Plate bill passes Texas Senate with a majority vote of 20-9. It now moves into house. This bill is of interest to Catholic advocates statewide as it is one of the bills they spoke to their representatives about on their visit to the State Capital on March 31.
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A Corpus Christi Respect Life Advocacy group under the umbrella of the Diocesan Alliance for Life was formed recently. The committee seeks to inform and educate Catholics about life issues and the teachings of the Catholic Church in regard to them.
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The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) has been labeled the most radical and divisive pro-abortion bill ever introduced in Congress. It has brought about a national campaign by the Bishops of the United States to encourage Catholics to urge their congressional representatives to vote against it.
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If you were a budding researcher and you were given the opportunity to work in a field that has produced cures, treatments, and has saved thousands of lives, or a field that has, since its inception over twenty years ago, been unable to produce a single cure, which field would you choose? If you were footing the bill, which field would you fund?
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