October 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Several years ago, my wife and I spent some time in Africa for our honeymoon. One night after she’d gone to sleep in the tent, our safari guide and I stayed up chatting. He was about my age, and was telling me what it was like growing up in Tanzania …
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SPUC OCT 29, 2018 | 4:53PM LONDON, ENGLAND In news that shows how prevalent discriminatory attitudes towards babies with Down’s syndrome still are within the medical profession, a mother has spoken out about her horror at being told the point of prenatal screening was to abort babies with the condition. “It …
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ROME, October 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò today has issued a third explosive testimony, in response to an open letter from Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Here below we publish the official English text of Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony, dated October 19, the liturgical Feast of the North American Martyrs. On the Feast of …
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By Nancy Flanders | October 25, 2018 , 10:27am The great “IUD rush” of 2017 proved to be an unnecessary race to obtain an implanted, long-acting intrauterine birth control device before President Donald Trump — as some claimed — could end no-cost health insurance coverage for it. That fear was unfounded, and many women ended up regretting their decision …
These 7 women suffered from IUDs, and want others to know the risks Read More »
Peter Kwasniewski October 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – I was reading an interesting book recently by Antoine Arjakovsky on the historical development of the notion of Christian orthodoxy, and I came across a quotation from a French patrologist, Jerome Alexandre, that made me pause and think: The flesh, like language, acts as a sign. It signifies a …
Why contraception and abortion amount to hatred of the body Read More »
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Anti-euthanasia activists have been pointing out for years that wherever euthanasia is legalized, it is not long before the “strict safeguards” touted by pro-death politicians and activists as protection to ensure euthanasia is only used in extreme cases begin tumbling down or being wantonly ignored. Such is the logic of the …
October 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Chesterton said: “It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.” Thinking on this Chesterton quotation, it came as no surprise to learn that Chiara Corbella Petrillo is being considered for canonisation. To be more exact that her cause could be opened …
Doctors told her to abort her sick baby. She refused. She now may become a saint Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Proud, smart moms with big families are fighting back on social media against France’s president for suggesting it was impossible to find a woman who was “perfectly educated” and who had “seven, eight, nine children.” Women with big families are using the “#PostcardsForMacron” hashtag to send Emmanuel Macron …
Moms with PhDs to French President: We’re ‘perfectly educated’ and have large families Read More »
They prayed for babies, and boy, did they get them: Five children in less than a year, providing a crash course in parenthood for a couple who couldn’t be happier. Sarah and Andy Justice of Tulsa, Okla., wanted a family but had trouble conceiving, so they adopted triplets. But soon after, Sarah found out she …
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October 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It is rare that a new pro-life organization emerges that does something utterly unique, but that is precisely what Laura Klassen and Choice42 have done. In the past several months, they have released a series of viral videos that have taken the Internet by storm, with Klassen and her now …
These viral videos are using satire to destroy abortion activists’ strongest arguments Read More »
JOHN STONESTREET OCT 17, 2018 | 10:34AM WASHINGTON, DC A recent story in the Washington Post described the story of Kianni Arroyo, who is on a three-year quest to meet all of her half-siblings. It’s not as idyllic as it sounds… So far she has found forty-four of them. They live in eight …
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri, October 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Doctors told an expectant mom that her son had spina bifida and might never walk. But thanks to his parents’ love and prenatal surgery, adorable toddler Roman Dinkel has become an internet walking sensation. A video of Roman taking some of his first steps, with the aid …
Baby with spina bifida who had surgery before birth now able to walk Read More »
Grazie Pozo Christie Oct. 11, 2018 There’s a young woman in my parish called Lupita. She’s Mexican, and about as pretty and charming a woman as you would ever hope to see. She carries a little copy of herself on her hip, most days — a little toddler called Mercedita whose hair is always perfectly slicked …
By Kristi Burton Brown | October 11, 2018 One of the biggest claims made by advocates of emergency contraception — also known as the Morning After Pill, Ella, Plan B, and more — is that these pills do not cause an abortion. Supporters insist that the pills, no matter their brand, simply prevent a pregnancy from occurring in …
Many women think emergency contraception can cause abortions. They’re right. Read More »
by Julia Dezelski Dear Millennial Woman, I did not think I would ever be a biological mother. This didn’t bother me; I was too busy anyway and much too afraid of the sheer pain of it all. I winced to hear the word “labor” in connection with childbirth. But love won me over. It started …
Courtney Grogan/CNA/EWTN News VATICAN CITY — In his general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis said that abortion “suppresses innocent and helpless life in its blossoming.” “Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It’s like hiring a hitman,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 10, in a departure from his …
Shannon Roberts | Oct 4 2018 Demographers have previously thought that low fertility among US women is a result of the 2008 Great Recession and will recover at some point, just as it has following historic recessions. It was thought that many women were simply delaying pregnancy and there would be a cyclical rebound. However, it …
CHRISTINA VAZQUEZ OCT 8, 2018 | 3:04PM WASHINGTON, DC A recent report from the Medical Journal of Australia found that many who had used some form of contraception ended up becoming pregnant anyway. The data published in the report comes from the results of a national, random survey of Australian women aged 18 …
Report Shows Contraception Failure: 41% Used Contraception Before Abortion Read More »
By Felix Carroll (Oct 5, 2018) This is what tuberculosis can do to you: Attack the lungs, kill tissue, and spread to the brain and the bones. Coughing becomes a given — sometimes mucus, sometimes blood. Breathing can become difficult. You may wheeze and feel chest pains and sweat excessively. You may become fatigued and …
October 5, 2018 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) – In good news for mothers and unborn babies, a new drug for combating severe morning sickness has been licensed in Britain. Around 80 per cent of pregnant women report some kind of morning sickness and up to 2 per cent will be diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, …
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October 1, 2018 (The Catholic Thing) – Like other professional men, if I want to attend weekday Mass, I have a choice between an early Mass in my parish and a mid-day Mass near my work. I love seeing colleagues at the later Mass, and the thrill of the sacrifice, which comes specifically from putting work …
What the sacrifices of moms at Mass can teach the rest of us Read More »
KATIE FRANKLIN OCT 1, 2018 | 4:37PM WASHINGTON, DC For more than a decade, women have used Abortion Pill Reversal as a means to stop their in-progress chemical abortions and save their unborn babies’ lives. Now, Heartbeat International, which took the reins of the protocol’s 24-7 helpline and provider network this spring, says the protocol …
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