Month: May 2018

Posted by Brian Williams The following post is by contributor Fr. Donald L. Kloster, a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport. Fr. Kloster is the parochial vicar at St. Mary’s in Norwalk, Connecticut. He is also a graduate of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Philadelphia, having completed his Master’s Thesis in Moral Theology. A native of Texas …

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David Quinn | May 28 2018 The pro-choice movement in Ireland won as emphatic a victory on Friday as the pro-life movement did in 1983. What was the response of the pro-choice side to their heavy defeat back then? Was it to go away? It was not. Instead they took the long view and immediately began the work …

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BOB SULLIVAN Contraception and the Manipulation of Language Individual Americans have enjoyed more personal freedom, individual rights, and collective liberty than most, if not all, other civilizations in history. Yet we are living in a time when freedom, rights, and liberty have been so thoroughly redefined and distorted that we struggle to communicate with each other. …

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by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe May 24, 2018 FROM THE National Center for Health Statistics came some disturbing news last week: The US birthrate, which has been on the skids for a decade, hit another record low. About 3.85 million babies were born in the United States in 2017. That was down from 3.95 million …

Make more babies, America Read More »

CHARTRES, France, May 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A leading Catholic churchman warned pilgrims at an iconic French cathedral that a Western society without God is like a “drunken boat in the night.” Robert Cardinal Sarah, 72, made his remarks during a homily he gave on Monday at the Mass celebrating the conclusion of the annual …

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Editor’s note: The following address was given by Lepanto Institute President Michael Hichborn at the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family conference on Human Life and the Family in Rome, May 21, 2018. May 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – I’ve been asked to give a few words, giving personal witness to the gift of Truth, …

Catholic dad of 6: ‘Sacrificial love’ within family is the gateway to heaven Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump affirmed the importance of the right to life and called on pro-life voters to help secure it Tuesday night, in his keynote address at the Susan B. Anthony List’s 11th annual Campaign for Life Gala. In a speech bookended by lengthy applause, Trump began by …

Life is the ‘true source of America’s greatness Read More »

by Lyman Stone, @LYMANSTONEKY https://ifstudies.org/blog/baby-bust-fertility-is-declining-the-most-among-minority-women The United States just hit a 40-year low in its fertility rate, according to numbers just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2017 provisional estimate of fertility for the entire U.S. indicates about 3.85 million births in 2017 and a total fertility rate of about 1.76 births per women. These are low numbers: …

Baby Bust: Fertility is Declining the Most Among Minority Women Read More »

Calvin Freiburger AUSTIN, Texas, May 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Republican lieutenant governor of Texas cited abortion this weekend as one of several factors that have degraded America’s respect for human life, which he believes was one of the causes of the recent school shooting in his state. A 17-year-old shot and killed eight students and two …

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by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet POSTED ON MAY 21, 2018 It is said that Blessed Paul VI was so heart-broken by the outpouring of dissent to Humanae Vitae,  he couldn’t bear to write another encyclical in the final decade of his pontificate. Certainly, one can feel the pope’s anguish in this homily, given just months before he died …

Humanae Vitae: Countering Sexual Revolution’s Harm Read More »

Most Rev. Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland Tuesday, May 15, 2018 12:35 PM My sister who lives here in Portland watched on EWTN the Mass I celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April 28. One of her comments (after she finished making fun of her younger brother!) was …

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  WASHINGTON — The extraordinary form of the Mass is drawing young people with its sense of reverence and transcendence, Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample said during an April 28 homily in Washington, D.C. “It has clearly been demonstrated that young persons, too, have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction, and found it a form …

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Julia M. Dezelski | May 18 2018 For Mother’s Day the US website Women Speak For Themselves ran a contest for women to write to other women about why not to fear motherhood. WSFT got 140 entries and the winning piece is here. The following is the third of three runners-up.  The other two are here. * * * * * Dear Millennial Woman, …

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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – President Donald Trump will announce today a long-awaited rule change that will forbid facilities that perform or refer for abortions from receiving Title X family planning funds. The move will come as a blow to abortion giant Planned Parenthood. The move, reported by multiple media outlets, originated as a proposal …

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J. Budziszewski | May 16 2018 https://www.mercatornet.com/above/view/thomas-aquinas-on-marriage-fruitfulness-and-faithful-love/21314 This is what we face.  According to the prevailing view, the love of a man and a woman is not an enduring commitment of the will to the true good of another person, but a feeling or an emotion.  Essentially, then, what the culture calls matrimony is cohabitation with …

Thomas Aquinas on marriage, fruitfulness, and faithful love Read More »

Micaiah Bilger May 16, 2018 | 4:35PM Queensland, Australia Mackinlee Anderson nearly died of severe brain injuries last September after her family was involved in a multiple-vehicle accident. Anderson’s grandmother died, and the 6-year-old sustained major injuries. Doctors initially told her family that she was “99.8 percent brain dead” and would never walk, talk or …

Doctors Said This 6-Year-Old Girl Was “Brain Dead” After a Car Wreck, Now She’s Walking Again Read More »

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, May 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider along with other bishops and ordinaries of the Catholic Church in Kazakhstan have released a pastoral letter to honor the “enduring importance” of Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the famous pro-life, pro-family document. Pope Paul VI released Humanae …

Four bishops affirm Church’s 1968 condemnation of contraception as ‘constant Magisterium’ Read More »

May 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – This past weekend was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, who is widely recognized as the architect of the most brutal and bloodthirsty philosophy ever to scar the earth: Atheistic Communism.  On the occasion of this infamous event, it was my intention to write an article about the …

Karl Marx unleashed a blood-thirsty dragon upon the world that can be defeated by the Rosary Read More »

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The fundamental truths about the nature of marriage are under a “diabolical” and “ferocious” attack today, Cardinal Raymond Burke told hundreds of Catholics at Philadelphia’s Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul on Saturday. The dubia cardinal, known internationally for his strong defense of Catholic orthodoxy and the pro-life …

Cardinal Burke takes on ‘confusion and error’ on marriage in blockbuster lecture Read More »

https://www.str.org/blog/applying-lincolns-logic-abortion-debate#.WuhBXZch1dg Aaron Brake On December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, and with it came the formal abolition of slavery in this country. It states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” This amendment was especially significant considering that just …

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