I have been quite disturbed by the news headlines of the past week. Perhaps you did not know it, but in addition to the Connecticut bishops and their amazing ability to back down on the subject of using the morning after pill (chemical abortion pill) to treat victims of sexual assault, the Wisconsin bishops are doing the same thing.

I am sure you will recall that late last week St. Louis’s Catholic Archbishop, Raymond Burke, held a news conference to explain why he felt compelled to resign from the board of Bishop Glennon Hospital.

While many of us are ecstatic at the news that Rosie O’Donnell is leaving “The View,” it is most interesting to note that one of her parting shots happened to be aimed at Catholics.

The Connecticut state senate approved a bill Wednesday that would require all hospitals — including the four Catholic hospitals in the state — to provide the Plan B emergency contraceptive to rape victims.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold restrictions on partial-birth abortion (actually, it’s infanticide) in most cases has stirred up the folks who support the act of abortion in ways that boggle my simple mind.

It was with great sadness that I read the media reports about the scandalous comments that were made by those organizing an event to benefit the Bob Costas Cancer Center at the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical center in St. Louis.