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The scene is common across America. A woman walks into her physician’s office. Perhaps it’s painful periods. Ovarian cysts. Endometriosis. Irregular bleeding. After the consultation, the woman is given a prescription for the contraceptive pill. The problem will be solved and she’ll likely remain on the pill for a majority of her childbearing years. No questions asked. But in Dr. Louise Murphy’s office, the scene plays out differently.

It started with a simple phone call. Six years into his priesthood, the Rev. Monsignor Tom Richter received a call from Bishop Emeritus Paul Zipfel informing him of his next assignment: director of vocations for the Diocese of Bismarck.

Many individuals and business owners are struggling in conscience about whether to purchase health insurance coverage, either for themselves or for their employees, on account of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate.

More details and a tentative schedule of events have been released for THIRST 2013, an event sponsored by the Diocese of Bismarck in cooperation with the University of Mary that will be held at the Bismarck Civic Center Oct. 25-27, 2013.

North Dakota’s Catholic bishops are calling Judge Wickham Corwin’s ruling on the state’s requirements for the use of abortion drugs a “serious error.”