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OSV on Benedict's new book
OSV.com
Contributing editor for Our Sunday Visitor Russell Shaw offers an analysis of Pope Benedict's new book "Jesus of Nazareth," which was released yesterday.

Jesus can save Latin America
Chiesa Online
Pope Benedict's speech to Latin American bishops last week will be remembered in the future as the one most revealing of the pope's objectives. For the pope, a strong effort of evangelization is the real response to the attacks against the family, to the crimes against life, to the abandoning of Catholicism in favor of the new evangelical and Pentecostal sects. This message could be applied here in the United States where similar trends exist.

Is the pro-life movement in decline?
Washington Times (registration site)
Although last month's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion was a welcome boost for pro-life forces, they are still recovering from last year's defeats in the elections, the newspaper says in a series on the future of the traditional-values movement. In this series, they ask the question "Has America's pro-life movement lost its clout?"