Month: June 2018

June 28, 2018 (American Thinker) – Africa’s burgeoning birth rate is expected to touch off more migration to its northern continental neighbor, as globalization and rising global temperatures both push desperate people to a place less ravished by crime and intolerable clime. European countries, in turn, have revolted against current migration trends and their expected …

Experts: Too many African babies, must resort to population control Read More »

TYLER, Texas, June 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, included a powerful message about the truth of God’s plan for human life in his homily Sunday on the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. We need God in every aspect of married life, he said, in the marital …

U.S. bishop encourages married couples to be open to life, reject contraception Read More »

June 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – One day in New Jersey, years ago, I was standing on a train platform waiting to catch a train into New York City. Seeing well-dressed young women waiting at the platform, on their way to work, I thought: How many of these women are committing themselves to a life of single-hearted …

Young women are giving up on children: They choose to be unfruitful wives, unfaithful mothers Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Tuesday that California cannot force pro-life pregnancy centers in the state to advertise abortions. National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra concerned a 2015 law forcing pregnancy centers to provide written information advertising how to obtain abortions in the state …

US Supreme Court strikes down law forcing pregnancy centers to promote abortion Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Ruining Respectful Relationships Between the Sexes  “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church… Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the Church… …

The Third Prophesy of “Humanae Vitae:” The Collapse of Respectful Relationships Read More »

By Nancy Flanders https://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2018/06/doctors-called-her-incompatible-with-life-but-bella-santorum-just-turned-10/ “Incompatible with life.” Those words have pierced the hearts of parents around the world as doctors handed them devastating diagnoses for their preborn children. Karen Santorum, wife of former Senator Rick Santorum, is one of those parents. Doctors told them that their daughter Bella had Trisomy 18, a condition that is …

Doctors called her incompatible with life, but Bella Santorum just turned 10 Read More »

Peter Kwasniewski June 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – St. Benedict in his Rule tells the monk that all the possessions of the monastery are to be treated with the same care that a monk would give to the vessels of the altar. The monk owns nothing, not even his own body, or his own will, says the saint. …

‘Recreational sex’ poisons true love. Here’s why Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Note: Part one of Father Boquet’s series may be accessed here. “Contraception Leads to Falsification, Deception…” Released in 1968, at the height of the hippie revolution with its optimistic doctrines of “free love” and emancipation from tradition and authority, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae was widely dismissed as the proverbial killjoy at the …

The Second Prophecy of “Humanae Vitae:” A “General Lowering of Moral Standards” Read More »

This pro-life, pro-fatherhood, pro-woman campaign is a collaborative effort between The Radiance Foundation and the Issues4Life Foundation. Please visit these great fatherhood resources: National Fatherhood Initiative and National Center For Fathering. Abortion, no matter the race, is a tragic loss of beauty and potential that kills over 1.2 million innocent human lives each year. The abortion industry has created a culture …

Fatherhood Begins in the Womb Read More »

ROME, June 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Failure to heed Blessed Paul VI’s “prophetic” teaching against contraception in Humanae Vitae has caused a damaging “mutation” in social relations, a prominent theologian argued last week. Speaking on Saturday, June 9, at a conference on Humanae vitae held in the northern Italian city of Brescia, Italian moral theologian Monsignor Livio Melina argued that Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical reaffirming the Church’s …

Contraception has caused damaging ‘mutation’ in our social relations: noted theologian Read More »

June 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The outgoing U.S. bishops’ pro-life chief Cardinal Timothy Dolan has said that the pro-life movement absolutely must make abortion illegal, rebuking Jesuit Father Thomas Reese’s recent suggestion that pro-lifers give up on that and promote contraception instead. “Besides supporting programs to help mothers and children, the pro-life movement also has …

Cardinal Dolan rebukes liberal Jesuit: We must end abortion, and not with contraception Read More »

by SBrinkmann In a groundbreaking conference held in Washington DC last month, some of the Church’s most influential women spoke about how the #MeToo movement proves the abject failure of the now 50-year-old sexual revolution that was supposed to liberate us and set us free. Writing for The Stream, Carrie Gress attended the May 31 conference entitled, …

Women Rethink the Sexual Revolution Read More »

June 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Seven years ago, Alana and Rickard Newman set out to make a movie chronicling Alana’s very personal quest to find her biological father – an anonymous sperm donor. The duo ended up producing something quite different – a sprawling, visually and intellectually engaging documentary to benefit the entire world. Alana, …

Former pro-abortion militant feminist makes film on why sexual revolution was wrong Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Pope Paul VI Rejects Paradigm Shift, Re-Affirms Church Teaching on Inherent Dignity of Marriage    Two Opposing Views of Marriage and Human Sexuality and Their Consequences  “False teachers, many belonging to an intellectual elite in the worlds of science, culture and the media, present an anti-gospel…When you ask them, “What must I do?” …

Humanae Vitae – The Beauty of Marriage Read More »

June 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Same-sex couples and transgender-identifying individuals should be treated with respect and dignity, but there are moral issues with them entering into the life of the Church, the USCCB’s incoming pro-life chairsaid. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, said the first response is to communicate with each person that they’re made …

U.S. archbishop: Church cannot accept gender fluidity or same-sex ‘marriage’ Read More »

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | June 5, 2018 11:39 PM EDT There are those who believe he should never have been allowed to be born. He came into this world prematurely with severe spina bifida, Chiari II malformation, hydrocephalus, autonomic dysreflexia, central sleep apnea, dysphagia, hypotonia, and paralyzed vocal cords. He would develop chronic lung disease, anemia, …

Bozell & Graham Column: Heaven’s Newest Angel Read More »

June 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Using contraception is an “intrinsic evil” in all circumstances because it “cuts off one of the goals of marriage which is an openness to life,” Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann told LifeSiteNews. Any question on this issue lies on the level of moral culpability for those who do use it, …

U.S. archbishop: Using contraception is always ‘evil’ Read More »

http://legatus.org/hearts-wounded-by-love-the-sacred-heart-fathers-and-abortion/ Father Frank Pavone In June, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Christ extends to us His flaming heart that has been lanced and pierced with thorns. It is a suffering heart. Christ loves us by saving our lives in exchange for His life. We, as the body of Christ, …

Hearts wounded by love: The Sacred Heart, fathers, and abortion Read More »

STEPHEN BEALE The devotion that Catholics have cultivated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is fitting for several reasons. First, when we revere the Sacred Heart we are recognizing the fullness of humanity in Christ. But we are doing more than just that: in ancient Israel, the heart was considered the seat of man’s being. …

The Hidden Reason We Adore the Sacred Heart Read More »