Month: March 2018

March 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – France is under the shock of its most recent Islamic terrorist attack in a small supermarket near the beautifully preserved medieval town of Carcassonne in the Southwest, where Muslim immigrants of North African descent form an ever-increasing part of the population. But this attack has been very different from the …

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ROCKLIN, California, March 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A 17-year-old California student is planning a pro-life “walkout” to take place at schools across the country next month in imitation of the recent ‘gun-violence’ protests. The aim of the event is to witness to the millions of lives destroyed by abortion. The event will also test if …

Teen organizes nationwide school ‘walkout’ to protest abortion Read More »

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – After public pressure, the President of Providence College, Father Brian Shanley, OP, has finally condemned the gay rape cartoon threatening a pro-family student. He also said the Dominican-run institution “always has, and always will, remain faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church” but “our collective challenge …

Providence College president finally condemns gay rape threats against pro-family student Read More »

By Cardinal Timothy Dolan March 22, 2018 7:29 p.m. ET A couple of events over the past few weeks brought to mind two towering people who had a tremendous effect on the Archdiocese of New York and the U.S. more broadly. Their witness is worth remembering, especially in this political moment. Last Saturday’s feast of …

The Democrats Abandon Catholics Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – His Excellency, the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services, USA, issued the following statement today on President Trump’s decision to disqualify transgender individuals from military service: “Saint Pope John Paul the Second wrote that, ‘Every individual, precisely by reason of the mystery of the Word of God who was made flesh …

Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on New Policy Disqualifying Transgender Individuals from Military Service Read More »

Colloquium “The Source of the Future” (“Quelle der Zukunft”) on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI March 29 – April 1, 2017 Herzogenrath, near Aachen (Germany) Introductory Message First of all I wish to thank from the bottom of my heart the organizers of the …

Cardinal Sarah’s address on the 10th Anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum” Read More »

Father Tad Pacholczyk Director of Education The National Catholic Bioethics Center A major study published on December 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that hormonal contraception increases the risk of breast cancer for women. The research used all of Denmark as its sample, following nearly 1.8 million Danish women of childbearing age …

The “Bitter Pill” of False Liberation Read More »

March 22, 2018, (LifeSiteNews) – A newly developed contraceptive pill for men, now in trials, works by reducing the presence of testosterone in adult males to levels typically found only in prepubescent boys and girls. One of the side effects among some of test subjects is decreased libido, also a common side effect of female …

‘Effective’ male birth control Read More »

SUMTER, South Carolina, March 22, 2018, (LifeSiteNews) – Kimberly Henderson is a musician who rose to prominence in 2014 thanks to a viral video of her singing to her baby daughter Vaida. And it would never have happened had God not convinced her to walk out of an abortion facility the year before. On Monday, …

YouTube singing sensation reveals how Bible verse saved her from aborting daughter Read More »

Shannon Roberts | Mar 20 2018 I still remember experiencing the wonder of walking up and down the aisles of Toys R Us as a child visiting America from New Zealand.  To be honest I think my parents were as awed as I was at the rows and rows of Barbie dolls and Ninja turtles, especially …

Toys R Us blames birth rate for business failure Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER   MAR 20, 2018   |   4:40PM    WASHINGTON, DC A group of mothers and their children with Down syndrome are wowing the internet with a powerful music video to the popular song “A Thousand Years.”  The video, launched a few days ahead of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, already …

Moms and Kids With Down Syndrome Singing “A Thousand Years” Read More »

March 19, 2018 (Lepanto Institute) – Caritas Internationalis, which is the Vatican-run confederation of Catholic international aid and development agencies, is on the board of directors of The Sphere Project, whose central purpose is to promote a standard handbook for aid and development work. The handbook strongly advocates for the use of contraception, including so-called …

Vatican’s Relief Agency Sits on Governing Body of Contraception-Promoting Organization Read More »

NEW YORK, March 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the consequences of mass contraception is the loneliness of the elderly in some of the richest countries in the world. So concludes Mary Eberstadt in an excellent essay commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae. Her article, “The Prophetic Power of Humanae …

Contraception created a loneliness epidemic: Thousands die alone and unnoticed Read More »

March 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As recently as the year 2010, less than 10 years ago, Planned Parenthood had an enormous marketing advantage over pro-life Pregnancy Help Centers. At that time, the only way a Pregnancy Help Center could get the word out about its services to a significant number of women aged 18 to …

A powerful new way to redirect millennial women away from Planned Parenthood Read More »

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, March 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A judge sentenced five pro-life activists today to one year of reporting probation, eight days of community service, more than $1,000 in fines each, and forbade them from going within 500 feet of any abortion facility in the United States. Several of them will likely serve jail …

Judge bans pro-lifers from going near abortion centers in unprecedented ruling Read More »

Jokin de Irala | Mar 6 2018 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s controversial statement condemning artificial birth control. In July 1968, he published the encyclical even though an overwhelming majority of the Pontifical Commission for the Study of the Problems of Population, Family and Birth supported a change in the …

Humanae Vitae, 50 years after: reviled, ridiculed … and right Read More »

Diane Montagna ROME, March 8, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The Pope has no power to change or relax the Church’s ban on artificial contraception, just as he can never allow women to be ordained, Cardinal Gerhard Müller said on Wednesday. The former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine for the Faith was speaking at a …

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JAY HOBBS   MAR 13, 2018   |   10:32AM    WASHINGTON, DC On a Saturday morning in early 2017, Katrina officially hit rock bottom. A day earlier, she had caved in—at her boyfriend’s insistence—and surrendered to abortion at a clinic in Alamonte Springs, Florida, near Orlando. As guilty as she felt, there was just …

Katrina Had Taken the Abortion Pill, But What She Did Next Saved Her Baby Boy’s Life Read More »

March 7, 2018 (Joseph Sciambra) – Editor’s note: Joseph Sciambra recovered, in part through the prayers of his father, from years immersed in a homosexual lifestyle and alienated from the Catholic Faith. He now writes extensively concerning the real-life issues of pornography, homosexuality, and the occult, particularly in the Church. 1. Pray “Rejoice always, pray without …

Dads: 10 ways to save your son from homosexuality Read More »

Fr Richard HeilmanFebruary 25, 2018 This past Saturday, I had the good fortune to join Doug Barry in giving a day of reflection for men. By and large, the day centered around being, as Doug calls it, “Battle Ready.” As the day approached, I was working on my two talks … refining and tweaking. It …

“I’M GOING IN!” Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet For the first time ever, Gerber has chosen a baby with Down syndrome as their official “Gerber baby.” Baby Lucas, whose infectious smile is certainly an attention grabber, was chosen from among 140,000 applicants. The position comes with a $50,000 prize, which Lucas’ parents say they intend to put towards his …

“Don’t be afraid of us… We are still human beings. ” Read More »

ERIC METAXAS & ANNE MORSE   MAR 2, 2018   |   1:11PM    WASHINGTON, DC What would you have given to become an Olympic athlete? One famous Japanese figure skater knows what she wouldn’t give.  The skater is gliding gracefully across the ice in a bright red costume, holding her arms aloft. Skating backwards …

Choosing Life Over the Olympics: Skater Miki Ando Rejected Having Abortion to Help Her Career Read More »

Demographic Intelligence’s senior advisor, Lyman Stone, comments on recent articles in The New York Times and Politico magazine providing four factors that are driving the recent fall in births. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/02/prweb15238344.htm CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 23, 2018 Writing in The New York Times, the economist Lyman Stone predicts that U.S. births fell to 3.84 million births in 2017, down from …

U.S. Fertility Falling Short of What Women Want Read More »