While you may be (rightly!) still enjoying this third day in this Octave of Christmas, voters in Iowa are just one week away from casting the first votes in the 2012 primary. Tonight CatholicVote.org is co-sponsoring a special pro-life tele-town hall meeting with leading contenders for the GOP nomination. The forum will focus exclusively on the issue of the sanctity of human life. All candidate... More

Welcome to the Lunchtime Reader, where we assemble important stories to keep your eyes on. Michael Sean Winters is not a right-winger. Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter rails against the Obama administration for not providing a true religious exemption in their contraception mandate and also calls it bad politics. http://is.gd/WaNb1l Even Commonweal magazine published an ed... More

Welcome to the Lunchtime Reader, where we assemble important stories to keep your eyes on. One despicable leftist ad showed a Republican pushing a grandmother off of a cliff. Christmas comes early for Paul Ryan. Politifact calls the claim that “Republicans voted to end Medicare” as the “Lie of the Year 2011.” http://is.gd/vgJWIm GOP unhappiness with the field fuels buzz for... More