VIETNAM Hanoi : Police ready to use force against Thai Ha Redemptorists - Asia News

The following excerpt is from AsiaNews.it:

• The Vietnamese government plans to solve by force the dispute over the Redemptorist convent in Thai Ha. Dozens of police agents began to block roads to the site last night. More security forces are expected today. With the move, the government wants to grab the property once and for all in order to build a water treatment plant for the nearby hospital. Parishioners and priests fear an attack like that of 19 September 2008 when police tore down the buildings of the Hanoi nunciature.

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VIETNAM Hanoi : Police ready to use force against Thai Ha Redemptorists - Asia News

VIETNAM Vietnamese Catholics praying for the martyrs of today and yesterday - Asia News

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• The latest case is the attack against Thái Hà Church on 3 November, when hundreds of police agents and soldiers broke down the church’s main door, tried to pick a quarrel with the vicar and parishioners present and threatened to kill members of the Redemptorist Order. 

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VIETNAM Vietnamese Catholics praying for the martyrs of today and yesterday - Asia News

Santorum Right About Morality and Economy - Star Parker - Townhall Conservative

Townhall.com columnist Star Parker has written an article called "Santorum Right About Morality and Economy". Below are some excerpts from the article (the emphases are mine):

• That’s not to say that the other conservative candidates disagree with Santorum’s take on these issues – traditional values, abortion, marriage – but Santorum has been the only one to insist that you cannot consider the economy independent of the way the individual human beings that make up the economy behave.

• Even Polk County Republican Chairman Kevin McLaughlin in Iowa takes issue with Santorum’s insistence on pushing the social agenda.

• McLaughlin says – and he’s far from alone on this – that candidates at this time should just be talking about the “stuff that is putting money in people’s pockets.”

• Santorum insists that there is a “moral component” to economic problems and that claims that one can be discussed meaningfully without the other are bogus.

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Santorum Right About Morality and Economy - StarParker - Townhall Conservative