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The Catholic Guide to Voting
from From The Land of Mickey by Fabrizio Ellul
Sept 18, 2008 - 06:03:17 PM CET
Is it a mortal sin to vote for a pro-abortion candidate?

Except in the case in which a voter is faced with all pro-abortion candidates (in which case, as explained in question 8 above, he or she strives to determine which of them would cause the let damage in this regard), a candidate that is pro-abortion disqualifies himself from receiving a Catholic’s vote. This is because being pro-abortion cannot simply be placed alongside the candidate’s other positions on Medicare and unemployment, for example; and this is because abortion is intrinsically evil and cannot be morally justified for any reason or set of circumstances. To vote for such a candidate even with the knowledge that the candidate is pro-abortion is to become an accomplice in the moral evil of abortion. If the voter also knows this, then the voter sins mortally.

This is my favorite though - the distinction between life and life according to the Church:



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Saved a tanker under heavy fire
from WIRED MALTA (formerly known as Wired Temples) by Robert Micallef
Sept 18, 2008 - 05:45:53 PM CET
Norman Owen, who has died aged 91, helped to save the tanker Ohio as she sailed to relieve Malta in 1942, from The Telegraph ..When the call came for men to board the abandoned Ohio and try to take her into Malta, Owen eagerly volunteered, preferring the known dangers of death by burning and sinking to the claustrophobia he suffered in Bramham.



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Service of out .......... out of Service
from Malta daily photo by Dina
Sept 18, 2008 - 01:34:49 PM CET
For a couple of days (fingers crossed not 10 like the Internet company told me!!) my Internet connection is going to be out of service. Whilst this is being sorted feel free to check out some photos from my early posting days. Let's see how I am going to survive this disconnection



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Hondoq ir- Rummien, Marsalforn and Azure WindoR
from La delirante: A Salvadoran living in Malta. by La Delirante
Sept 18, 2008 - 01:09:16 PM CET
When I was a little kid I would get up at 7 am on Sundays to the utter disbelief of my parents and as you can well imagine, that stopped when I was a teenager. Nowadays I usually get up at 9:30 am on Sundays.

Last Sunday, however, we made an exception and got up at 6h30 am so that we could enjoy our day in Gozo!