Author: Chandler Marrs, PhD If you’ve read any of my posts, you know that this is one of the questions that pervades my work. Do we really know what we think we know? More often than not, the answer is no. Upon examination, what we hold true falls short. In the field of pharmaceutical medicine, …
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The family is the most sexual of all organizations. But given the sexual chaos of modern times, new families who want to succeed in their task of child-raising must quickly find a community of other families of like mind. They are most likely to find such families at their place of worship if the sexuality …
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Friday Night Secular Pro-Life’s conference booth was set up just a few yards away from our friends at Rehumanize International, with whom I also shared a hotel. Quick plug: their latest project is Create | Encounter, which wants your visual art, creative writing, musical works, etc. related to any and all life issues. Submissions are …
2017 Pro-Life Women’s Conference Was Amazing. Here’s What Happened Read More »
Fr. Shenan Boquet June 26, 2017 (HLI) — Most Catholics reject the Church’s teaching on contraception not because they’ve carefully considered it but because they’ve never had to do so. When someone hears that the Catholic Church has a teaching about contraception, a common response is “Why?” Since this crucial teaching is so rarely given …
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https://youtu.be/Q8tPjpKBgcc André Schutten June 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — I was scrolling through the news on our publicly funded CBC website the other day and, when I clicked on one video for a story, I had to first watch a 15-second advertisement (this one funded by the government of Ontario). The ad may seem tame enough …
Offensive, anti-child ad: Kids are annoying, use birth control Read More »
DES MOINES, Iowa, June 21, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Katie Buck felt that any moment she was about to completely lose it as she sat in the hospital room listening to the devastating words of the doctor. The 29-year-old mother suddenly felt as if she was living somebody else’s life, or like she was having a …
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – “Unborn babies are constitutional persons,” the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy stated in a remarkable release last month. The nation’s “leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship,” according to its website, said in its report that unborn children do in fact fall under the Fourteenth …
Harvard legal journal just shattered arguments for legal abortion Read More »
CLAIRE CHRETIEN June 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – When I first became pro-life, the solution to ending abortion seemed fairly obvious: just give people condoms so that there won’t be accidental pregnancies. I chuckle when I think about that now. But at the time it made perfect sense. I had yet to realize the deep relationship …
I’m pro-life. And that means I’m against contraception and gay marriage. Here’s why Read More »
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by: Isabelle Z. (Natural News) If you’ve ever spent time around a baby, you have probably noticed that he or she seemed fixated on your face. No one would blame you for assuming that babies develop this fascination as a result of early interactions and bonding experiences with their mothers, but …
Unborn babies can recognize FACES from inside the womb Read More »
by Katy Faust | Jun 12, 2017 I recently spoke with a bright college student fresh from her Gender Studies class who wanted to know why Christians were trying to “force their morality upon a secular society” by supporting traditional marriage. It’s a good question, and one that we should be ready to answer. From a …
Edward Pentin Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, archbishop emeritus of Bologna, Italy, has a key message to deliver: Great efforts must be made in Catholic education and catechesis if the Church is to combat today’s attacks on marriage, life and the family. In a May 19 interview with the Register in Rome, the founding president of the …
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June 12, 2017 (Priests for Life) — Millennials have a bad rap. They’re labeled as crybabies, snowflakes, fragile, spoiled, and entitled. They’re told they want safe spaces, participation trophies, and handouts. They’re accused of wanting the most benefits for the least work, and the list goes on and on. I feel kind of bad for …
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, May 31, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The leader of Russia’s 150 million Orthodox Christians says homosexual “marriage” is unnatural and contrary to the conscience of every human being, which is why so many people resist its normalization for the same reason that people resisted fascism and apartheid. In an interview at Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, …
Orthodox leader: Gay marriage laws should be compared to Nazi laws Read More »
Bishop Robert Barron Robert Cardinal Sarah’s recent book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise explores a number of themes both theological and spiritual, all centering around the unhappy role that noise has come to play in our culture and more specifically in the Church. His observations are most trenchant in regard to the liturgy, …
Michael Cook If a couple is having trouble conceiving after a year, or even as little as six months, they often head off to an IVF clinic. However, as advocates of natural family planning have been saying for decades, the costly, emotionally draining and ethically contentious process of IVF many not be necessary. And now …
By Rob Sample – MAY 25, 2017 The dedication and legacy of a prodigious pro-life hero When five-year-old Lilliana Dennis was born in February 2011 in Indianapolis, doctors informed her mom and dad that she suffered from a rare genetic condition that was “incompatible with life.” As Lilliana approaches her sixth birthday, she continues …
Dr. Paul Byrne: From preemies to end-of-life issues, one man has made a difference Read More »
June 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — My wife and I had trouble conceiving when we were first married in 2004. After our daughter came two years later we again had trouble conceiving. Being open to a larger family, we went to a healing service to ask the good Lord for his help. It came our turn …
Abstaining from sex during fertile time…another way to love my wife? Read More »
Michael Cook | Jun 6 2017 Euthanasia and assisted suicide are only legal in a handful of countries, but their supporters are already thinking of creative ways to integrate them into the economy and social life. Doctors in Belgium and the Netherlands are using organs from people who time their euthanasia for organ donation programs, …
Micaiah Bilger Jun 5, 2017 | 1:26PM London, England | LifeNews.com Just one week after Chelsea Nally and her husband, Daniel, were married, the newlyweds discovered they were pregnant. For some, the news may have brought thoughts of abortion, but the British couple said they were excited about their unplanned pregnancy. They did …
address was given by His Eminence Carlo Cardinal Caffarra on 19 May 2017 at the fourth annual Rome Life Forum, which is organised by Voice of the Family. “When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself” [John 12, 32]. “The whole world is under the power of the …
Our present situation: the battle between Our Lord and the reign of Satan Read More »
The Brazilian priest Alexandre Awi Mello, the National Director of Brazil’s Schönstatt Movement, will serve as the new secretary for the the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. He was born Rio de Janeiro in 1971, and was ordained a priest in 2001. Since 2002, he has been a professor of Pastoral Theology in several …
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By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head: The effect of birth control and a contraceptive culture has altered our world in ways we could never have expected. Think for a moment about the effect contraception has had on the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. First of all, if a family …
