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Thousands march for life in Chicago
Forty-two years ago Maureen Deitche aborted her unborn child and it continues to haunt her. “I still regret it,” she said. “You never forget.” Deitche attended...
Who’s that bishop above the door of City Hall?
If you’re in Copenhagen, Denmark, it’s St. Ansgar, a French monk and bishop who preached the Gospel in the ninth century in what is now Denmark. Eventually, the Danes and the Swedes and the Norwegians converted to the Catholic faith. Centuries later, during the Protestant Reformation, the kings took over the church and transformed it into a department of state, using its organization and wealth to create the absolute nation states that destroyed medieval civilization. Separated from Rome, the State Churches of Scandinavia adopted the Lutheran confession of faith as the expression of their belief. So thorough was this reform that, even today, it is difficult to be considered truly Danish or Swedish or Norwegian unless one is part of the Lutheran Folk Church, the religious expression of what it means to be part of a Scandinavian people.
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