Month: November 2016

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet “For us to make real progress as a country, our interventions must target this group.” — Ummy Mwalimu, Minister for Health, Community Development, Elderly and Children, speaking of the need to target adolescent girls with contraceptives, at the opening of the Family Planning 2020 “Progress Report” conference in Dar es …

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Rihanna Truman is a young woman who will give birth in just one week to her first child. What makes her unique is not only that she is 16-years-old, but that she is also battling cancer. At just 12-years-old, Truman was diagnosed with adamantinoma, a rare and slow-growing bone cancer. So rare that it only …

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By Matt Hadro Baltimore, Md., Nov 16, 2016 / 05:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Infidelity, divorce, sexual violence, pornography, hook-up culture – all things that have both increased en masse in society over the last few decades, and have seared pain into the lives of individual men and women. So how do we even begin to …

How to fix our broken sexual culture, according to Archbishop Chaput Read More »

http://www.humanlifereview.com/chemical-abortions-rise-among-u-s-women/ Ifeoma Anunkor According to a recent report by Reuters, abortion in America has reached a new turning point: Nearly half—43 percent—of abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics are now medication-induced rather than surgical procedures. It’s a sharp increase since 2010, when Planned Parenthood ended 34 percent of pregnancies chemically. At some point, chemical abortions could …

Chemical Abortions on the Rise among U.S. Women Read More »

Talk about heartwarming! A video of a set of newborn twins being bathed by a nurse in France has taken Youtube by storm, earning over 4.2 million views in the space of just a few days. The nurse, Sonia Rochel, says the babies were only a few days old when she gave them a type of immersive …

‘They’re already born, but they might not know it yet!’: amazing video of newborn twins goes viral Read More »

http://www.ohiolife.org/dayton_abortion_facility_denied_license_again COLUMBUS, Ohio–In September, a hearing examiner at the Ohio Department of Health recommended that the license of a Dayton-area abortion facility be revoked for failure to meet the department’s health and safety standards. This followed a hearing in April in which the abortion facility, Women’s Med Center of Dayton, requested to maintain its license …

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By Arina O. Grossu and Patricia Livengood http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/10/hormonal-birth-control-dangerous-dispense-without-prescription/ Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first approved hormonal birth control in 1960, it has been touted by some as the best thing since sliced bread. But a new landmark study has concluded that hormonal birth control carries significant mental health risks to women. Newspaper headline …

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Jim Nicholson, says the President-elect has been a “very good listener” at meetings with a Catholic coalition of advisers. Edward Pentin President-elect Donald Trump has been a “very good listener” during meetings of a Catholic coalition group that he set up to advise him on the faith during …

Trump’s Catholic Coalition Could Have “Very Positive Effect” on Presidency Read More »

The patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta said Catholics need to continue to make their presence felt in the election process. Edward Pentin http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-burke-trumps-victory-a-wake-up-call-to-us-political-leaders VATICAN CITY —Cardinal Raymond Burke has said Donald Trump’s election Tuesday is a sign that the United States’ political leaders need to listen more to the people and return …

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http://foreverymom.com/society/chile-moms-powerful-way-to-give-unborn-children-a-voice-and-itll-stay-with-you/?utm_content=bufferab678&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer In the United States, when abortion became legal in 1973, the Supreme Court basically declared that unborn people don’t have constitutional rights like those of us that are out of the womb do. In further denying the “personhood” of unborn children, proponents of abortion insist on referring to a child in the womb as …

These Moms Found a Powerful Way to Give Unborn Children a Voice—and It’ll Stay With You Read More »

Richard A. Watson, M.D It has not been an easy decision. Many whose opinion I deeply respect have recommended strongly against my doing so. Not least among these are several members of my immediate family. My own children think that voting for Mr. Trump is, well, “deplorable.” Certainly, there are many reasons not to vote …

WHY I AM VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP AND URGING OTHER PRO – LIFE AMERICANS TO DO THE SAME. Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Borg are a collection of species that have been turned …

Is Resistance Futile? Read More »

by ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/441632/male-birth-control-study-cancelled-after-side-effects A new study shows that a hormonal birth-control shot for males could effectively prevent pregnancy in female partners, but further studies were cancelled after the men involved in the study experienced side effects, primarily depression. The decision to curtail the studies is ironic, considering the growing evidence that hormonal birth control …

Double Standard: Male Birth-Control Study Cancelled Due to Side Effects Read More »

November 2, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — In 1979 I arrived, elated yet diffident, in the Chinese village that would be my home for the next year. Within a few months of my arrival, pregnant mothers were being rounded up by local Communist officials and marched off to abortuaries. China’s one-child policy had begun. As a visiting …

Pro-life advocates have an historic opportunity on Election Day. Will we seize it? Read More »

Less than a week before Americans cast their votes for president, Catholic bishops are urging their congregants to educate themselves about the candidates’ positions on abortion. The next president could make a huge impact on the future of abortion in the U.S. through his or her nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court and other policies. …

Catholic Bishop: Support for Abortion “Should Disqualify Any Candidate From Receiving Our Vote” Read More »