Month: February 2018

MICAIAH BILGER   FEB 28, 2018   |   11:11AM    WASHINGTON, DC With hard work and perseverance, abortion will be abolished “in our time,” Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday. Pence encouraged pro-life advocates during the 2018 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Tennessee. He was a keynote speaker at a luncheon organized by Susan …

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Fr. Shenan Boquet February 26, 2018 (HLI) – The cobra knocks on John’s door and asks, “John please let me in. It is cold and damp outside. I promise I will do no harm to you or your family.” But John vigorously rejects – at first – the pleas of the cobra, knowing the imminent …

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Gerard V. Bradley February 20, 2018 (The Public Discourse) – As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s prophetic affirmation (in Humanae vitae) of the Church’s perennial teaching that contraception is always morally wrong, it is perhaps fitting that contraception, notwithstanding its widespread acceptance even among Catholics, is much in the news. The news …

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STEVEN ERTELT   FEB 22, 2018   |   12:30PM    WASHINGTON, DC Pro-life Catholics who wish Catholic Church leaders would step up and deny communion to leading politicians who support abortion are getting good news today. One Catholic bishop is denying communion to pro-abortion Democrat Dick Durbin, a top Democrat in the Senate who …

Catholic Bishop Denies Communion to Pro-Abortion Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin: “Until He Repents of His Sin” Read More »

Richard Heilman20180220APOPE ST. LEO XIII’S VISION According to legend, exactly 33 years (span of our Lord’s life) to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a remarkable vision. When the aged Pontiff had finished celebrating Mass in his private Vatican …

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Andrew Mullins | Feb 12 2018 Dietrich von Hildebrand, In Defense of Purity, Steubenville: Hildebrand Press, 2017. It is 50 years since Paul VI, in Humanae Vitae, predicted four effects of the widespread use of contraception: first, “conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality” would become widespread; second, there would be a loss of respect for women; …

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by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Troubling rumors have been swirling around Rome for months now about an alleged papal commission tasked with undertaking an “historical review” of Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae. Despite initial denials about the existence of the commission, it appears that a Vatican official has just confirmed that there is, in fact, such a commission at …

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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, February 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Both men and women Olympic athletes at the Winter Games in South Korea will be given an average of 37 condoms each. Olympic officials are distributing 110,000 prophylactics in grab-as-many-as-you-want baskets at athlete bathrooms, apartments, medical clinics, media rooms, and wherever the competitors gather, according to the South China Morning Post. …

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PARIS, France, February 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In what viewers are calling the “most powerful pro-life video…ever,” a new youtube video highlights abortion as a choice that destroys the most important relationship on earth, between a mother and her child. The minute-and-a-half video has over 61,000 views. “À un Choix de te Perdre” [With a Choice …

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DENVER, Colorado, February 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae approaches, the “liberating truth” of Church teaching on human sexuality must be proclaimed to the “increasingly confused” world, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver wrote in a new pastoral letter. In his pastoral letter, titled The Splendor of Love, Aquila wrote that although contraception has …

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By Dr. Taylor Marshall In our sexually obsessed culture, the virgin martyrs are our “cloud of witnesses” for sexual purity and chastity. Today is the feast of Saint Agatha who is famous for her iconographical depiction of her breasts – sometimes euphemistically referred to as “Saint Agatha’s Bells.” I’ve assembled her life and story (along …

Saint Agatha in 7 Points (Patroness of Breast Cancer Patients) Read More »

ADDRESS OF JOHN PAUL II TO PARTICIPANTS IN A STUDY MEETING ON RESPONSIBLE PROCREATION Friday, June 5, 1987 Dear brothers and sisters, 1. I warmly greet you and thank you for your presence, and I am pleased with the “Study and Research Center for the Natural Regulation of Fertility” at the Catholic University of the Sacred …

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