James Schall SJ | Apr 30 2018 | To many who can recall it, the on-going drama and death of Alfie Evans in the hospital in Liverpool recalls Burt Bacharach’s plaintiff song: ”What’s It All About, Alfie?” That is exactly the right question here. “What’s it all about, when you sort it out. Alfie?” Probably no …
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Steven Mosher April 27, 2018 (Population Research Institute) – The Great Recession in 2008 sent American birth rates into sharp decline. The total number of births has dropped below 4 million and stayed there. Now that economic growth is picking up again, birth rates should follow that same upward course, if history is any guide. …
BRAD MATTES APR 26, 2018 | 9:46AM WASHINGTON, DC It’s been a titanic battle – UK’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital versus a helpless 23-month-old boy. Alfie Evans suffers from an undiagnosed neurological disorder. He is not terminal, but that hasn’t stopped the hospital’s aggressive attempts – which some have called perverse, heinous and obscene – …
MICAIAH BILGER APR 24, 2018 | 4:09PM WASHINGTON, DC A New Hampshire father recently admitted to leaving a bullet at a Massachusetts abortion facility while his girlfriend was having their unborn baby aborted. Salem News reports Joshua Paiva, 21, of New Hampshire, told police that he should not have done it, but …
by Deacon William V. Williams, MD | In Humanae Vitae, Blessed Pope Paul VI made several predictions of what widespread use of contraceptives would lead to. These included an increase in marital infidelity, lowering of moral standards, men considering women as “a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires” (e.g. Harvey Weinstein and many others) and the imposition of …
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/04/from-the-heart-of-a-young-father Bishops get a lot of unsolicited mail from strangers, some of it pleasant, some of it much less so. It goes with the job. But every once in a while a letter comes in that’s worth sharing with a wider audience. Last month, in preparation for the October 2018 synod, roughly 300 young adults …
by Molly Loesel Pope Saint John Paul II’s Evangelium vitae just about says it all when it comes to discussing the sanctity of human life, threats to life in the modern world, and the related Catholic Church’s teachings on the issues. In today’s culture – where the deciding factor of an action among young people tends to be “if …
by ChurchPOP Editor – April 14, 2018 It happened again. David Bereit, founder of the amazingly successful prayer-based pro-life organization 40 Days for Life, just entered the Catholic Church this Easter. When I mentioned this to a friend, they were surprised to hear that he wasn’t already Catholic. Indeed, while evangelical Protestants generally vote pro-life, on-the-ground activism seems to be …
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KRISTAN HAWKINS APR 17, 2018 | 1:02PM WASHINGTON, DC In a strange twist of fate, leading athletics programs seem to be ignoring federal protections for women that went into effect the year before Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Boltoncreated almost unlimited abortion access. While the 1972 Title IX was created to protect female …
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April 9, 2018 Dr. Robert Walley, Executive Director of MaterCare International (Canada) The Feast of the Annunciation (of the Incarnation) has been transferred this Year to April 9th as the usual day of March 25th occurred on Palm Sunday. This commemorates the visit when “the Angel Gabriel declared unto Mary and she conceived by the …
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/humanae-vitae-and-the-chemical-corset EDITORIAL: While the early Christians set themselves apart in their reverence for the body and for the spousal one-flesh union as a sign of Christ’s unconditional love for his Church, those who embrace the chemical corset scorn, perhaps unthinkingly, the body’s limits and the sacrifices that come with marriage and family life. The Editors …
MICAIAH BILGER APR 12, 2018 | 10:12AM WASHINGTON, DC Pro-Life Students at Hundreds of Schools Walk Out to Protest Babies Dying in Abortions Students at hundreds of schools across America walked out of their classrooms Wednesday to protest the violence committed every day against babies in the womb. The event originated …
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April 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced new restrictions on who can offer the birth control implant Essure, along with new requirements for informed consent to the device’s medical risks. The agency announced Monday that the permanent implant must now carry a label that restricts its sale and distribution to providers …
Doug Mainwaring WASHINGTON, DC, April 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – “The most globally reviled and widely misunderstood document of the last half-century — Humanae Vitae — is also the most prophetic and explanatory of our era,” Catholic author Mary Eberstadt told attendees at a conference on the topic of the 1968 encyclical. “The beauty of Pope Paul VI’s …
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http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/04/06/archbishop-chaput-the-truth-of-humanae-vitae-makes-us-free/ The Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, abortion, human sexuality and contraception is rooted in the same respect for human dignity that guides its work for social justice and care for poor people, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput told a Catholic University of America audience. It is imperative that the church make known why it upholds …
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April 6, 2018 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) – A couple whose frozen embryos were destroyed in a storage tank malfunction could seek action for wrongful death – if a judge rules that an embryo is considered a life. This is just one of the dozens of lawsuits facing The University Hospitals Fertility Clinic in Cleveland, after …
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Micaiah Bilger Apr 5, 2018 | 1:32PM The Vatican Pope Paul VI’s legacy as a strong advocate for babies in the womb could be recognized in a special way when he is canonized as a saint later this year. Known for overseeing the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Pope Paul VI is expected to …
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April 4, 2018 by SBrinkmann http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=63156 A petition drive is underway to ask the United States Postal Service (USPS) to issue a special commemorative “Choose Life” stamp in honor of the sanctity of life. The petition drive is being sponsored by the Population Research Institute (PRI), the International Organization for the Family (IOF), Human Life International, and …
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BRAD MATTES APR 4, 2018 | 11:15AM WASHINGTON, DC Many women who’ve chosen abortion afterward immediately regret their decision. Though the abortion industry tells us otherwise, it’s true. Until recently, women who began taking the chemical abortion pill, commonly known as RU 486, but had second thoughts had no way of …
CYPRUS, April 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On Good Friday, the parliament of the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus voted 33-8 to legalize abortion. Five members of parliament abstained from voting. The new law allows all babies to be aborted through the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and babies conceived in rape to be aborted through …
John-Henry Westen April 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Even though you are reading this on Easter, it is a challenge for me to write this now, while still in the midst of a Lent that has been quite the challenge both personally and professionally. Nevertheless, despite our hardships, even those severe ones, we know that in …
MARCH 29, 2018 MARINA DROUJININA If sacrifices speak so much to us,” it’s because they “reveal a common foundation that is the ground on which one relies,” says French Catholic philosopher Martin Steffens: “As one relies on the ground, one doesn’t see it and yet it’s certainly there.” Questioned by Olivier Bonnel on Vatican News, Steffens …
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https://aleteia.org/2018/03/28/this-3d-carbon-copy-of-jesus-was-created-using-the-shroud-of-turin/# This statue is the three-dimensional representation in actual size of the Man of the Shroud, created following the precise measurements taken from the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion,” explains Giulio Fanti, teacher of mechanical and thermal measurements at the University of Padua, who studies the Shroud. Based …
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http://www.pattimaguirearmstrong.com/2018/03/how-to-welcome-new-catholics-30000.html? While we continue to hear about fallen-away Catholics, more than 30,000 will enter the Church during the Easter Vigil Masses in the U.S. this Saturday. That’s enough for a small city! That number is based on 85 of the nearly 200 dioceses reporting to the United States Conference of Bishops, so there are certainly much more than just …
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