Meg Meeker | May 31 2017 I am often asked to speak about sex to high school students. Many adults shudder at the thought of talking to kids about sex, but I love it. First, I have a captive audience, and second, I get to talk about two things that I am very passionate about: …
ROME, May 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — There is a need to “prioritize” procreation as the primary end of marriage today, because when this “distinctive” and “proper” purpose is questioned or doubted, the “marriage institution itself — and society thereafter — begins its slide down the slippery slope,” the head of Human Life International’s (HLI) Rome …
Editor’s note: This address was delivered by His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan, on 19 May 2017 at the fourth annual Rome Life Forum, which is organised by Voice of the Family. May 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The family has been created immediately by God, so the Magisterium of the …
Anne Hendershott http://www.catholicworldreport.com In an attempt to continue her desired “transition” from female to male, Evan Michael Minton was scheduled by her surgeon to undergo a hysterectomy at Dignity Health chain’s Catholic Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, California last summer. The surgery was denied by the Catholic hospital’s policy. And, although Minton was …
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March 28, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — I had always dreamed as a little girl of Prince Charming, castles, and fairytale endings. But what took place exactly one week before my birthday in September 2009 was no childhood dream, but an evil nightmare filled with pain and utter disbelief. When I was violently raped by my fiancé, …
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When I get in touch with Rosa Pich by Skype during Holy Week, I discover that she is on holiday with 12 of her children in Torreciudad, a shrine dedicated to Our Lady in northern Spain. “We are trying to return to normal life,” she says, following the death of her husband, Chema, of liver …
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http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=15601 Within the next 10-20 years, a new and controversial fertility technology called in vitro gametogenesis could make it possible to manipulate skin cells into creating a human baby. However, this groundbreaking research has caused push-back from some critics, like Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, who says IVG …
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The message of Fatima is, in its basic nucleus, a call to conversion and repentance, as in the Gospel. This call was uttered at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it was addressed particularly to this present century. … The call to repentance is a motherly one, and at the same time it is strong and …
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Howard Kainz In his book Heretics, G. K. Chesterton writes, There are some people — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe. We think that for a landlady considering a lodger, it is important to know …
Nexplanon, a contraceptive implant promoted as Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive, is a single-rod, progestogen-only implant measuring 4 cm in length and 2 mm in diameter. It is not biodegradable, and it contains 68 mg etonogestrel. Nexplanon should be placed subdermally at the inner side of the upper nondominant arm. Subdermal contraceptive implant embolism to a …
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Maria Gallagher May 17, 2017 | 3:59PM Washington, DC A champion of life—that title expertly captures the work and legacy of Pope John Paul II. More than a decade after his death, the author of Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) remains one of the greatest heroes of the pro-life movement, …
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Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, is pictured at the Vatican in this Oct. 9, 2012, file photo (CNS); right: Monastère de la grande chartreuse, in the Chartreuse Mountains, France (Wikipedia) About 365 miles south-east of Paris, high in France’s remote Chartreuse Mountains, lies one of the world’s …
Patrick F. Fagan | May 15 2017 https://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/culture-spotting-the-celebration-of-new-life/19796 Greek Orthodox baptism. By Nek Vardikos [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimendia Commons Culture is a society’s way of joyfully guiding itself into the future, a future made most visible in its ever-repeating cycle of celebrations. When you cut to the quick on that future the child emerges. …
posted on May 13, 2017 by Cassie Moriarty On the fluidity of motherhood Motherhood comes in all shapes and sizes. There’s the mom who sat through hours of blood tests, chart analyses, and waiting rooms. The one who saw countless negative pregnancy tests and was crestfallen every time. There’s the mom who only saw one positive pregnancy …
Steve Jalsevac Note: numbers before quoted paragraphs are as published in Cardinal Sarah’s book. May 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Why have we seen such a dramatic increase in anxiety, fear, personal disorientation, irrational anger and forced imposition of political correctness over the past 50+ years in developed nations? Have you noticed how many now reject reason …
Aleteia . | Abr 29, 2017 Never like now a beautiful scene of a baby, his family and the experience of faith is conquering smiles and tenderness in social networks: the baptism of little Gustavo, a Brazilian baby who literally “found grace” in the middle of baptismal font! During the ritual of baptism by immersion, …
Judie Brown May 9, 2017 (ALL) — The latest fashion news from Australia is truly demonic: “Human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, as well as other bodily parts and fluids, can be transformed into jewelry.” Baby Bee Hummingbirds, the company manufacturing these trinkets, is known for creating keepsakes containing such things such as breast milk …
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John-Henry Westen May 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — As I’ve been researching Fatima for several speaking engagements this year, I was confronted over and over again by Our Lady’s insistence on Russia’s consecration. That after it was done, as well as the practice of the First Five Saturdays of reparation, Our Lady promised Russia would be …
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MICAIAH BILGER APR 27, 2017 | 11:42AM WASHINGTON, DC When doctors told Chelsea Torres that she was carrying conjoined twins, they warned her that the babies probably would not survive past the first trimester. Doctors encouraged Torres and her husband, Nick, of Blackfoot, Idaho, to consider having an abortion, The …
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MICAIAH BILGER MAY 4, 2017 | 10:15AM MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Baby Dexter was not supposed to be. His mother, Lucy Hellein of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, was using a supposedly highly effective birth control device when doctors believe she conceived Dexter, according to the Daily Mail. And when Dexter was born on April 27, the IUD coil …
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Scientists discover estrogen-heavy pills hamper memory and increase anxiety in females with a certain gene variant Estrogen alters a memory circuit in women with a gene variant When women’s estrogen levels were maniupulated, there was activity in the hippocampus while performing a working memory task However, during such tasks, activity in this area is typically suppressed …
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MICHAEL COOK MAY 2, 2017 | 5:45PM BRUSSELS, BELGIUM One of the last substantial barriers to increasing the number of euthanasia cases for non-terminally-ill psychiatric patients in Belgium seems to have crumbled. A religious order in the Catholic Church, the Brothers of Charity, is responsible for a large proportion of beds …
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MANCHESTER, England, April 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Maria Santa, a healthy and gifted 17 year-old ballerina from Romania, died unexpectedly from a blood clot that doctors believe was caused by taking oral contraceptives. Maria, who was studying in England on a scholarship at Manchester’s famous Northern Ballet School, went to a walk-in medical facility complaining …
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DAWN SLUSHER MAY 1, 2017 | 5:39PM WASHINGTON, DC ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” In a society where preborn children are treated as disposable property, and disregarded in the name of cold, sterile, euphemisms such as “reproductive rights” and “choice,” it’s rare to find a mother who actually does the opposite of putting …
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