Month: January 2018

January 29, 2018 http://www.usccb.org/news/2018/18-022.cfm WASHINGTON—Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities called the Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act “appalling”. The bill proposes to ban abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization. “The U.S. Senate’s failure to adopt …

Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Chairman Calls Senate Failure to Pass Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act “Appalling” Read More »

By Msgr. Charles Pope Honestly, Have You Considered the Fruits of Contraception? In our culture’s current self-examination on sexual harassment and sexual abuse, we would also do well to ponder how the “contraceptive mentality” has contributed to the many sexually related problems of the day. This view insists that there is no necessary connection between sex …

Honestly, Have You Considered the Fruits of Contraception? Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet https://www.hli.org/2018/01/great-week-life-must-go-deeper/ If St. John Paul II was right in Evangelium Vitae (and he most assuredly was), this has been a most remarkable week not just for life, but also for democracy, in the United States. There were, of course, the hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers who showed up in D.C. to march in …

A great week for life…but we must go deeper Read More »

https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/science/ethical-issues/nickels-dimes-and-family-size.html FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK A few years ago, I spoke with a young man preparing to get married. His aunt told him that she thought he and his fiancée were too financially-strapped to have a child, and that it wouldn’t be fair to bring up a baby in poverty. Keenly aware of his joblessness and …

Nickels, Dimes and Family Size Read More »

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-church-needs-honesty-about-sexuality R. Jared Staudt The Church exists to lead us to happiness. Yet the world sees the Church as one of the primary obstacles to self-fulfillment. This conflict comes from two opposing views of what makes us happy. The Church points to self-giving love as the path (other-focused), while the world holds to the fulfillment …

The Church Needs Honesty About Sexuality Read More »

Jonathan Abbamonte JANUARY 24, 2018 Many American Women Have Felt Pressured into Abortions, Study Finds A significant number of American women who have had an abortion have felt subtle, or even substantial, unwanted pressure to abort, a recent study has found. The study, published recently in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, found that nearly three-quarters (73.8%) …

Many American Women Have Felt Pressured into Abortions, Study Finds Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-life Catholic priest electrified the crowd at the National Prayer Service on the day of the March for Life with his homily about the inevitable victory of the pro-life movement over abortion. “We are marching for a certainty,” declared Father Frank Pavone, executive director of Priests for Life. …

‘Victory’ over abortion is a certainty…because of Jesus: Priest at March for Life prayer rally Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 22, 2018   |   2:43PM    WASHINGTON, DC Watching an unborn baby move around in the womb can be a life-changing experience. Ultrasound and MRI scans now are providing this new window into the womb, giving society a glimpse of the humanity of the unborn child and abortion-minded mothers a …

Best Pro-Life Video Ever? Astonishing MRI Scan Shows 20-Week-Old Baby In Utero Read More »

STEVEN ERTELT   JAN 19, 2018   |   4:17PM    WASHINGTON, DC President Donald Trump today told hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans gathered for the March for Life that he will sign a bill the House passed today to protect babies born alive after abortions. He also bashed abortion policy in the United States …

Trump Tells March for Life: I Will Sign Bill Protecting Babies Born Alive After Botched Abortions Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 17, 2018   |   1:11PM    WASHINGTON, DC Baby Royer’s success story brings hope to families whose unborn babies have been diagnosed with spina bifida. Royer was born last week in Texas with the debilitating condition; but because of a surgery he underwent in the womb in September, his outlook …

Baby Who Had Experimental Surgery to Fix Spina Bifida While Still in the Womb is Born Healthy Read More »

MINNESOTA, January 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Catholics throughout the United States have been invited to a very special spiritual event. Inspired by the Polish Rosary to the Borders, the American Rosary to the Interior is the work of laypeople frightened by the state of the Church today. They are encouraging Catholics to ask priests to make their …

US Catholics organize national rosary rally to combat ‘darkness’ of abortion and porn Read More »

Abortion- Norma Mccorvey The Jane Roe of ‘Roe vs Wade’ was really Norma McCorvey, but she can no longer be the poster child for the pro-abortion movement she once was, because she is a hallmark example — and given her role in the history of abortion law — an iconic example of God’s way of changing …

A CHANGE OF HEART IN ROE V. WADE: NORMA MCCORVEY Read More »

BALTIMORE, Maryland, January 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals handed Baltimore pro-life pregnancy centers a major victory last week, telling them that no one can compel them to post abortion-related signs in their waiting rooms. Pro-lifers are rejoicing in the victory and hope it will translate to other states as well. …

VICTORY: Baltimore pregnancy centers do not have to post abortion-related signs Read More »

January 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara, Mexico, rejected the possibility of giving Holy Communion to people who commit the sins of homosexuality, contraception, and adultery, in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews. He also called homosexuality a “psychological illness” that leads to the self-destruction of its practitioners. He accused …

Cardinal: Those who practice homosexuality, contraception, adultery cannot receive Communion Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 8, 2018   |   6:00PM    LONDON, ENGLAND A British mother criticized her doctors for encouraging her to abort her unborn daughter after tests indicated that the baby girl could have a disability. Baby Kyla-Shae Anderson was born healthy 18 months ago, and her mother, Kamelia Walters, 25, of South …

Mom Slams Doctors Who Told Her to Abort Her Severely Disabled Baby Girl, She Was Born Healthy Read More »

This address was delivered on 28 October 2017 at Voice of the Family’s conference, “Humanae Vitae: Setting the Context” which marked the approach of the 50th anniversary year of the encyclical letter Humanae Vitae. The theological importance of Humanae vitae and its prophecy for our time by Fr Serafino M. Lanzetta 1. Humanae vitae has faced acute problems Humanae …

FR LANZETTA: THE THEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF HUMANAE VITAE AND ITS PROPHECY FOR OUR TIME Read More »

Thirty years ago this January 14th, President Ronald Reagan published a Personhood Proclamation. It is a beautiful proclamation declaring that personhood begins at the moment of conception and continues to natural death. As a philosophical statement, it is a wonderfully worded affirmation of the value of human life. But it had no teeth and no …

Personhood Proclamation Read More »

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/plenary-indulgence-available-to-catholics-attending-the-2018-march-for-life Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington and the bishop of the neighboring Diocese of Arlington announced Wednesday that the Catholic faithful may obtain a plenary indulgence by participating in the 2018 March for Life. Often misunderstood or simply unknown to many Catholics, an indulgence is a way to cut time off of Purgatory either for …

Church will offer Catholics plenary indulgence for attending 2018 March for Life Read More »

JANUARY 1, 2018 JIM FAIRMARY AND MARIOLOGY https://zenit.org/articles/pope-francis-year-opens-in-the-name-of-the-mother/ “The year opens in the name of the Mother,” Pope Francis said in his homily at Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on January 1, 2018, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. “Mother of God is the most important title of Our Lady” The Holy Father reminded the …

Pope Francis: Year Opens in the Name of the Mother Read More »