March 31, 2015 By Operation Rescue Honolulu, HI — The University of Hawaii is recruiting patients as young as 14 for second-trimester abortions to determine how much they bleed during the procedure. The controversial study is already underway at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, led by Bliss Kaneshiro, MD and Kate Whitehouse, DO. In …
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Bob Zyskowski | March 24, 2015 http://thecatholicspirit.com/ Ideas for observing Holy Week as a family adapted from the faith formation team of St. Edward in Bloomington. General suggestions Give up technology from Good Friday until Easter Sunday morning. Sit down as a family (or group) each night of Holy Week and plan a spring party …
Jim Sedlak March 27, 2015 (ALL.org) — March Madness! It’s that time of year again when college basketball teams are vying for the national title and almost everyone gets involved. Discussions turn to “brackets,” and the hype can be felt everywhere. Even the president of the United States created his own bracket and is following …
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http://thefederalist.com This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama magazine interview conducted with the fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, wherein Domenico Dolce proclaimed, “You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that’s how it should be. I call children …
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The pill. Freedom in a tablet. The cause célèbre of the women’s rights movement. Particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision in 2014 and the uncertain future of the Affordable Care Act, no other issue, perhaps barring campus sexual assault, has dominated the contemporary feminist agenda as much as birth control. Despite …
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March 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new US study has found that a huge increase in Crohn’s disease cases in women in the past fifty years corresponds to the introduction and widespread use of oral contraceptive pills since the 1960s. Crohn’s disease is an incurable ailment affecting the digestive system characterized by abdominal pain, severe …
Women who take birth control pill 300% more likely to get Crohn’s disease: study Read More »
In this book, St. John Paul II shares his profound wisdom and practical insights on the importance of human life and how best to defend it against the many attacks of the present day. This is a short book, but packed with what we need to make an effective stand for life. The pope (and …
Source: http://www.culture-of-life.org By: Christian Brugger Twenty years ago this month, on the solemnity of the Annunciation, St. John Paul II published Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). It was the 17th year of his pontificate. He was 75 years old. The idea for an encyclical on the dignity of human life was first suggested to …
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March 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Although there has always been contraception, its acceptance and practice by society as a whole is a relatively new phenomenon. In the first part of the 20th century barrier methods became through mass production increasingly used. However, with the advent of the hormonal contraceptive pill in the 1960s the contraceptive …
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By Xavier Symons The majority of Canada’s palliative care specialists don’t want to participate in assisted suicide, according to a survey recently conducted by the country’s Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP). The survey – discussed in the latest edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal – revealed that only 25% of CSPCP members would …
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Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker A bill proposed in the Missouri House would prohibit health care facilities and others from withholding life-sustaining procedures from a minor patient without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian. Sponsored by Rep. Bill Kidd, R-Kansas City, HB 113 also would require health care facilities, nursing …
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March 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — An article in the Frontiers journal of medicine is sounding the alarm about the possible effects of hormonal contraception on the human brain, suggesting that the effects may be much more profound than previously thought and calling on the scientific community to devote more research to the topic. “Hormonal contraceptives …
