DAVE ANDRUSKO AUG 31, 2018 | 4:21PM WASHINGTON, DC Happily for me, earlier today I ran across a guest column written by the Rev. Charles Chaput, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, for the Delaware County Daily Times, a Pennsylvania newspaper. Naturally, his column was exquisitely reasoned, brilliantly composed, and wonderfully persuasive. …
SACRAMENTO, California, August 30, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The California Assembly voted 52-25 this week to approve legislation that would require all public colleges and universities to provide chemical abortion pills in their campus health centers, despite the fact that these pills kill tiny human beings and pose health risks to women. Effective starting in 2022, SB 320 requires that “each …
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John Grondelski For the past four weeks, the Church has read from John 6, Jesus’ teaching about Communion, the Eucharist. She wraps that extended study today. For the past four weeks, we explored the meaning of communion as it relates to giving of human life, illuminated by the teaching of Humanae vitae. We discussed the person of …
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, August 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) bashes pro-life pregnancy centers, places that protect the tiniest of human beings, for allegedly presenting “false and misleading information” to women. In the article, Dr. Rita Rubin mentions the findings about crisis pregnancy centers of an …
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By Phil Lawler The Pennsylvania grand-jury report was released on the very day that I had chosen (long beforehand) to begin a week-long vacation. I had vowed that it would be a real vacation—that I wouldn’t hop back to post news items on this site—and I held to that vow. Still I could not escape the news; …
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August 27, 2018 (Operation Rescue) – Judge Mary Wiseman issued a decision Wednesday upholding an Ohio Department of Health order to revoke the Ambulatory Surgical Facility license of the Women’s Med Center, a late-term abortion facility owned by Martin Haskell located in the Dayton suburb of Kettering. Attempts to close the infamous abortion facility began …
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by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Last year Christian musician Nichole Nordeman shared a humorous but tragic anecdote. She described overhearing a couple at the airport on a video chat with their “baby” and the baby’s “grandparents.” The parents, she said, were clearly suffering separation anxiety. “They are cooing and gushing and exclaiming “well look at YOU, big boy! …
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis blamed “clericalism” in the Catholic Church for creating a culture where criminal abuse was widespread and extraordinary efforts were made to keep the crimes hidden. Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has targeted clericalism as an illness in the church, an ailment that pretends “the …
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ROME, August 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — What you are about to read is an explosive testimony of the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged sexual abuse of seminarians and priests. In an extraordinary 11-page written statement (see official English text below), …
By Geraldine Comiskey Niall McGrath stunned doctors when he came out of his coma in 2010 and has been steadily recovering ever since. The Daniel O’Donnell fan has been helped by his mother, Mary, and sister Sandy Roper, as well as the Donegal singer who sang to him while he was on life-support and kept …
By JOSHUA CHARLES Published on August 21, 2018 As has been obvious to many Catholics for many years, broad swathes of the American Church have been very cavalier and accepting of homosexual behavior, despite the fact that the Church is crystal clear that such behavior is gravely sinful. So, I wanted to share a brief story. My RCIA …
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MICAIAH BILGER AUG 21, 2018 | 5:36PM NEW DELHI, INDIA A mother in India recently gave birth to a baby boy while in a coma and then surprised doctors by waking up when she heard her son’s cries. The Indian news site Manorama Online reports Betina, of Kottayam, India, fell on Jan. …
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Father John Paul Walker, O.P. God always knows what we need. God always gives us what we need. Sometimes we need comfort. Sometimes we need assistance. Sometimes we need correction. Often, we need all three. In the midst of this dark time in the Church, where the people of God have been so rightly scandalized …
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www.OurLadyofAmericaUSA.org Kevin B. McCarthy, J.D., S.T.L. For Our Lady of America In The Name, The Heart, The Blood and The Divine Will of Our Lord Jesus Christ, through The Heart of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of America, Greetings! This message communicates once again a prayer program (this one for 36 days in duration …
By Nancy Valko People with severe brain injuries from accidents, strokes, illness, etc. are often in comas at first. If they don’t die or spontaneously wake up, they can progress to a “persistent vegetative state” (PVS) described as “awake but unaware” and/or a “minimally conscious state. ” MCS is described as “definite, but extremely limited, awareness of …
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet After the recent fall of Catholic Ireland to the abortion regime, pro-abortion forces appeared confident that they could gain another victory for their ideology – this time Catholic Argentina. Instead, after a bill was introduced to legalize abortion-on-demand up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, millions of ordinary pro-life Argentineans took to the streets in peaceful protests, demanding that their legislators stand for …
Fr Tad Consenting to Sex. May 2017 Father Tad Pacholczyk Director of Education The National Catholic Bioethics Center Recent news articles exploring the post-#MeToo world of romance have noted the phenomenon of cell phone “consent apps,” allowing millennials to sign digital contracts before they have sex with their peers, sometimes strangers they have just met. …
Bishop’s Letter Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018 — 1:30 PM August 18, 2018 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ of the Diocese of Madison, The past weeks have brought a great deal of scandal, justified anger, and a call for answers and action by many faithful Catholics here in the U.S. and overseas, directed at the …
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/08/22299/ by C.R. Pakaluk Last month, the Catholic Church was rocked by a grotesque reminder that things are not all right for the institution that stands, singularly and without exception, against every form of “cheap sex”—masturbation, pornography, birth control, and divorce. Ironically, the allegations against Theodore McCarrick became public just days before the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae …
By Susan Michelle-Hanson Medication abortion, also known as the abortion pill, has been marketed as a simple answer for women who want an abortion, offering them the convenience of taking their preborn baby’s lives in the privacy of their own homes. But in reality, medication abortion has had destructive effects — not just on preborn children, …
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John M. Grondelski Summer is, in a lot of ways, the “revelation of the body.” That’s true, even on the most natural level. People wear less. Just peruse the typical woman’s or, even more, teen magazines in April or May. There’s always an article about the agony and ecstasy of bathing-suit season. Summer reveals the …
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August 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Since its release in April 2016, Amoris Laetitia in its eighth chapter has shown itself to be the Trojan Horse by which progressive, liberal, and modernist clergy have been able to introduce old errors, new abuses, and more sins into the City of God. In this fiftieth anniversary year of Humanae Vitae, we will …
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https://ki.se/en/news/oral-contraceptives-reduce-general-well-being-in-healthy-women One of the most common combined oral contraceptive pills has a negative impact on women’s quality of life but does not increase depressive symptoms. This is shown by a major randomised, placebo-controlled study conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics. The results have been published …
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August 8, 2018 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) – Abortion supporters appear determined to ignore the dangers of DIY abortion in their support to license abortion pills for home consumption. BPAS Chief Executive Ann Furedi recently branded abortion pills “safe and simple” in a Spiked Magazine article this week. With an array of pro-abortion publications peddling the …
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DAVE ANDRUSKO AUG 7, 2018 | 5:31PM WASHINGTON, DC Okay, pretend you didn’t read the headline. It’s more fun that way. Tatiana Guerra, 30, is from Brazil, and was 20 weeks pregnant when this video was taken. When she was 17, she’d lost her sight. Courtesy of Huggies Brazil and the …
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Felipe E. Vizcarrondo | Aug 7 2018 In 1803 Thomas Robert Malthus, an English clergyman who was concerned about the origins of poverty, published an Essay on the Principle of Population. This was a moment when the world’s population was increasing at a faster rate than it had in the past and some people were concerned about overpopulation. …
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DAVE ANDRUSKO AUG 6, 2018 | 1:32PM WASHINGTON, DC One of my favorite actors, Nick Searcy, a the lead role in “Gosnell: The Movie,” which finally opens this October reportedly in over 700 theatres. The film is one of the largest crowd-sourced movies of all time. For that tiny handful of pro-lifers who might not …
August 1, 2018 (Human Life International) – In Evangelium Vitae, St. Pope John Paul II identified a sinister paradox in contemporary culture. “Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed,” he lamented, “the very right to life is being denied or trampled …
by David F. Forte Ever since 1928, Gerber Baby Foods has illustrated its products with a sketch of a beautiful child who was chosen after a nationwide contest. Beginning in 2012, Gerber supplemented its cherubic logo with an advertising campaign featuring an additional child, also chosen in an open competition. This year, out of 140,000 submitted …
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nancyvalko I have had many relatives and friends who lived in nursing homes and, especially as a nurse, I am always saddened by how few of the other residents had any visitors, even family members. I have even heard relatives say they would just prefer to remember their relative “the way they were”. This is not …
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By Phil Lawler This week I have been swamped with messages from loyal Catholics who have been shaken and disgusted by the latest eruption of the continuing sex-abuse scandal in the Church. I wish I saw some sign that our bishops recognized the rising tide of anger—righteous anger—among the most active lay Catholics. Unfortunately, Bob …
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FR. BRYAN JERABEK When I was a child and preparing to receive my First Holy Communion, I remember being taught to do so the traditional way: on the tongue. In fact, if memory serves, we received Holy Communion via intinction that first time i.e. the priest carefully dipped the host in the Precious Blood before …
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By Nancy Flanders A neuroscientist has found that at least 20 percent of people thought to be in a vegetative state are completely aware of what’s happening around them and to them, but they are unable to respond or move. This means that people thought to be in comas or a ‘vegetative state’ are suffering horrible …
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