The trial against Dr. Kermit Gosnell continues with some new twists. First, there was the judge throwing out all five of the counts of corpse abuse. To my knowledge Judge Minehart has not explained how cutting off the feet of aborted babies and storing them in jars as souvenirs is not grossly disrespectful to a [...]
In recent decades, America has made many wonderful advances in protecting the rights of people with disabilities and including them in society. Gone are the days of forced sterilization and institutionalization. Now we have laws making disability discrimination illegal and most public places handicap accessible. Children with special needs are able to get an education in most public school [...]
Growing up, my school assemblies would always talk about self-esteem. It seems that elementary schools in the late 80’s and 90’s (sorry for my older readers-I don’t mean to rub it in your face) had this one major issue on their minds. It would seem to be up to the teachers of that decade to [...]
The baptism class which my wife and I attended began today with a simple statement: “Children are a gift.” Indeed, they are, but what does this mean? The Old Testament is replete with passages to the extent that children are blessings. “Certainly sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a [...]
Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote a piece last week for Salon.com entitled, “So what if abortion ends life?” Ms. Williams explains how she can believe that life begins at conception while still clinging to her pro-choice position. It is a sobering read but one that I would recommend. I would suggest grabbing a sweater and a [...]
When we first announced to friends and family our decision to move from Las Vegas to rural Alabama, you would have thought we said we were all growing bushy beards to live as hermits in a cave, way over in Mars, with Forrest Gump as our cult leader. But time has proven that: in the [...]
Often, I wonder what an authentically Catholic, person-centered approach to evangelization looks like. So many goods, particularly sex, love, the body, and the family, have been twisted and misinterpreted by the culture. The truth is ours to reclaim. I still can feel the floor under my little carpet square. Seven years ago, I went [...]
I have heard the defense many times and it ends conversations. “Men can speak about abortion when they get a uterus.” At first, this statement may get a pro-life male to quietly leave a dialogue not knowing exactly what to say because they do not have a uterus. Apparently, only the presence of [...]
No, I will not write his name on the ballot. I believe that voting for a third party, a third person, is a symbolic act. In the case of a presidential election, a symbolic act is about as good as handing a symbolic cup of water to a man dying of thirst in the desert. [...]
“I don’t have to go to church, I can pray anywhere”, so they say. Yes, we have all heard that sappy line for decades. It’s the ultimate in narcissism; an admission that no other human is necessary for the communion between an individual and God. Just me and God. Yep, God and I have a direct line. [...]
Scott Hahn in his book “First Comes Love” cites the monumental work of Harvard University Professor, Carle C. Zimmerman’s entitled “Family and Civilization” which citation, I paraphrase in this article. Zimmerman studied families in different societies throughout history. He classified families in these societies into three categories: the trustee family, the domestic family, and the atomistic [...]
In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul explains how, when God calls people, he does not base his decision on human criteria - wisdom, power, nobility – but often chooses uneducated, unimportant and even despised people in the world’s eye to convert the wise, the strong and the “important”. Consider your own calling, [...]
Any treatment of Catholic social teaching has to begin and end with the dignity of the human person. The first principle and foundation of all social justice and Catholic social teaching is a recognition of the inherent dignity due to human beings by virtue of their being made in the image and likeness of God. [...]
My name is Dan, and I am an abortion sidewalk counselor in New Jersey. This is my inaugural column for a series I will call On the Frontline. Yes, by the grace of God, and resulting from a lifetime of nagging by the Hound of Heaven, I have moved onto the prayer line at an [...]
I have always loved Fresh Air with Terry Gross on National Public Radio (NPR). She is the perfect interviewer, intelligent, compassionate, and always knowledgeable about her interviewee. She has an amazing ability to keep her personality vanilla enough not to distract from the main attraction, the person being interviewed. Of course, she has bad days, [...]
I read a fact the other day on the internet: Eight percent of all babies in the womb who test positive for Down syndrome or a genetic anomaly survive and are born. That means 92% of all babies who test positive are aborted. Ninety two percent never get a chance. Reading that fact shook me [...]
Launches its first female into space, performs over 250,000 abortions… Female astronaut Liu Yang, 33, and two male crew members are to dock the spacecraft with a prototype space lab launched last year in a key step toward building a permanent space station. All three are experienced pilots and officers in the Chinese air force. [...]
It is a sad state to those in America that must walk through our great cities and travel through our beautiful countryside, when they see the streets, the driveways and the grocery parking lots crowded with gas guzzling vehicular juggernauts, overflowing with the unfortunate female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in [...]
Recently, in reaction to the breaking news about Planned Parenthood performing gender specific abortions, a bill was introduced into Congress seeking to make gender specific abortion illegal. The bill did not pass the House of Representatives, sparking something of a furor, not only from pro-life groups, but also from women’s rights groups. I, [...]
Recently I posted this. Well, following its publication, I engaged in a conversation with someone very close to me, who did not think it very “Christian” of me to dislike our current POTUS. The following is a letter I wrote to this individual. My intent was never to post this but after much thought and [...]
Guest post from a Perinatal Hospice Nurse About a year ago, a well known Protestant pastor had a question posed to him on a radio show. A young mother called in with a heartbreaking problem – her twins were conjoined and she wanted to know if she could end the pregnancy because even if she [...]
Being prolife, to me, is a battle–where I’m trying to save two lives, or more.
Frida Kahlo – self portrait Frida Kahlo is one of the most important figures of 20th-century Mexican culture. Born in 1907 in Mexico City and raised during the Mexican Revolution, Kahlo is widely considered the face of 20th-century Mexican “surreal” art. Her folk art and bizarre self-portraits continue to have a strong influence in modern [...]
SOCIALIS Saturday: A Confirmation retreat youth team spent two months producing this simple, yet profoundly impactful, video. These students from Tauton, MA hope to inspire others to do the same. Please watch to the end, it will move you, and then share it please to encourage these teenagers. Have any ideas of your own for [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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