Month: June 2016

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet This week saw a rare victory in the international battle for truth and religious freedom. You may have heard that Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, archbishop of Valencia in Spain, had been threatened with legal action following a controversial homily he gave some months ago. In the homily, he criticized the …

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Soccer and the Sacred Heart: The Rhythm of Spiritual Fatherhood By Dave McClow, June 21, 2016 June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Father’s Day also falls within the month, and spiritual fatherhood ties these two together. The human heart always operates in two directions—the muscle contracts and then relaxes.  If this …

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pregnant-after-a-violent-rape-doctors-were-shocked-by-me-and-my-husbands-re By Jennifer Christie Last January, I was travelling on business, staying in a little hotel in a college town.  I like to think I’m usually more aware of my surroundings, but it was so snowy and windy that I wouldn’t have heard his footsteps even if he had he been stomping. It happened so …

After a brutal rape, I became pregnant. Doctors told me to abort. My husband and I did this instead. Read More »

Fish struggle to fertilize eggs three generations after exposure to contraceptive hormone, raising questions about the effects on humans. by CELESTE MCGOVERN WASHINGTON — A recent report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that birth-control hormones excreted by women, flushed into waterways and eventually into drinking water can also impact fish fertility up to …

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A new study confirms that virgin brides have the lowest divorce rates. Carolyn Moynihan | Jun 13 2016 Virginity gets very little press or screen time these days and that’s a shame. As a new American study confirms, a woman who enters marriage as a virgin has the best chance of still being married five …

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Michael Cook   Jun 15, 2016   |   11:45AM    Brussels, Belgium Since 2005 about 40 people in Belgium and the Netherlands have successfully combined euthanasia with organ donation, according to an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics by ethicists and transplant specialists. The [five] doctors are so enthusiastic about the procedure that …

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CHICAGO, June 13, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Catholics are not alone in holding that birth control is a sin against God. Father Patrick Henry Reardon, pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Chicago, who’s also an author and senior editor for the Christian magazine Touchstone, spoke in a recently published YouTube video of how …

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by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20) How much more bizarre can our society get? It’s a question that many have been asking for a long time, …

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June 10, 2016 (LiveActionNews) — Estudiantes De Caracas, a professional soccer team in Venezuela, wanted to encourage parents to enroll their children in their soccer academy, so they created the first ever soccer game to be played by preborn children. The dads were on hand to watch the game and the parents celebrated the kicks …

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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would impose crushing fines on pharmacists who refuse to personally dispense “emergency contraception,” a potential abortifacient, removing conscience protections from the law. The “Access to Birth Control Act” (S. 2960), introduced on May 19 by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, …

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By Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, May 31, 2016 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Once again common sense has been turned on its head in our culture, this time by transgender activists agitating for people to be able to use the bathroom that they feel corresponds emotionally to their self-identified gender rather than the …

Lex Cordis Caritas – The law of the heart is Love Read More »

Bishop James Conley, Lincoln Nebraska, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 On Friday, May 13, the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice issued a joint instruction, which they called “significant guidance,” to public school districts across the country. The guidance stated that in order to receive federal funds for education, every public school district must …

Time for healing, not lamenting Read More »