by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Duc in altum! These words ring out for us today, and they invite us to remember the past with gratitude, to live the present with enthusiasm and to look forward to the future with confidence: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever’ (Heb 13:8). –Pope St. John Paul …
Published: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/letters/20181222/letter-day-dont-coerce-women-living-hiv-tie Saturday | December 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM THE EDITOR, Sir, Patrice (not her real name) is a woman living with HIV. In a consultation with her doctor, she explained that she and her partner were planning to have a child. The doctor is said to have told her that she was wicked to …
Korin Miller Writer Yahoo Lifestyle Dec 19, 2018, 3:25 PM In discussing female contraception, the general assumption is that you’re talking about the Pill. But new findings released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that another method has surpassed oral contraceptives in popularity: female sterilization. According to the data, which was released Wednesday …
More women now rely on female sterilization than the pill — experts unpack why Read More »
Carolyn Moynihan | Dec 14 2018 Producing a film that argues for the moral and practical superiority of natural family planning over modern contraceptive technology when practically “everyone” takes the latter approach for granted must be either an act of madness or an act of faith. “Sexual Revolution: 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae”, is both. But …
By Laura Nicole | December 26, 2018 , 10:33am Since 2012, Jeanne Mancini has been president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, the organization behind the March for Life. During an interview with Catholic News Agency’s CNA Newsroom podcast (Episode 5), Mancini shared her thoughts on the state of the pro-life movement and hinted at plans to …
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By Amanda Read Sheik | December 24, 2018 , 11:37am Director Frank Capra‘s 1946 family classic It’s A Wonderful Life is a poignant tale which reminds us that even in turmoil, it is a mistake to presume we can choose what makes life worth living. It may not have been originally intended to be confined to the Christmas genre, but the hot-cocoa-and-popcorn comfort flick was …
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The darkening that comes with the year’s shortest hours of daylight is like the lowering of the lights in a theater as the play is about to begin. But in the “Drama of Salvation” by which the human race is offered the promise of restoration to its original glory, “all the world’s a stage,” and …
ALEX SCHADENBERG DEC 20, 2018 | 4:51PM WASHINGTON, DC Doctors can’t explain how an 11-year-old girl from Hays County, Texas was cured from an inoperable brain tumor. According to Fox News: In June, doctors told Roxli Doss she had an inoperable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, KVUE [Fox News] reports. …
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December 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A few years ago I was helping a friend and her family re-organize their personal library and came across a book titled “A Child is Born.” I asked innocently if it belonged in the Christmas section. The answer was an emphatic no, as I was informed that the photograph-driven bestseller about a …
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By Nancy Flanders When Culture of Life Africa founder Obianuju Ekeocha tweeted about dangerous birth control devices, like IUDs, on November 28, 2018, she asked her followers to share their stories of using natural fertility awareness methods. They not only responded to what she asked, but they also shared their birth control “gone wrong” stories. Referring to birth …
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BETHLEHEM, December 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Thousands of babies are safely born in Bethlehem thanks to a Catholic hospital named for the Holy Family. Holy Family Hospital is a Catholic teaching hospital with a state-of-the-art maternity and neonatal critical care center. It serves poor women, children, and babies throughout the West Bank of Palestine. It …
Room at the inn: Catholic hospital serves all moms and babies in Bethlehem Read More »
By Nancy Flanders | According to a new study in the British Journal of Medicine, women who are victims of domestic violence are twice as likely as other women to use emergency contraception. Researchers at the University of Bristol and Queen Mary University of London analyzed the medical records of over 200,000 women of reproductive age. “Our findings are in …
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By Nancy Flanders | Miracle baby Royce Cannon was born premature at just 30 weeks gestation after his mother, Felice Renfroe, was diagnosed with preeclampsia. Royce was delivered via emergency c-section at Akron Children’s Hospital. “I had protein in my urine and they were scheduling me to take steroid shots,” Renfroe told Fox 8. “The first day I …
Mom of baby born 10 weeks premature: ‘He’s my miracle baby’ Read More »
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, December 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Students at Yale University’s Silliman College will soon be able to obtain condoms, lubricant, and even abortifacient “emergency contraception” as easily as putting some money in a vending machine. A so-called “wellness to-go” vending machine will be installed in the campus’s Good Life Center before winter break, …
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November 5, 2018 (40 Days for Life) – Men’s role in abortion often starts by not respecting women enough to practice abstinence before marriage. Once a pregnancy occurs, many men are stunned to learn that a father has no legal right to protect his own child from abortion. But even if a dad can’t rely on the law, …
by Susan Brinkmann Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS The “safe and legal abortion” myth suffered yet another blow on Friday when the Florida Board of Medicine revoked the medical license of late-term abortionist James Scott Pendergraft, IV who was arrested for operating an illegal home abortion and drug distribution business out of the back of his …
BRAD WILMOUTH DEC 10, 2018 | 10:22AM WASHINGTON, DC On Friday, the NBC Nightly News took the time to devote an entire story to the case of a Michigan woman who survived a near-death experience which illustrates that doctors can sometimes make the wrong diagnosis and give up on comatose patients too soon. Anchor Lester Holt recalled …
Medical Miracle: Woman Considered Brain Dead Recovers After Her Life Support is Removed Read More »
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet “The victory, if it comes, will come through Mary.” These were the dying words of Cardinal August Hlond, as recounted by Pope St. John Paul II in his book Crossing the Threshold of Hope. Reflecting on the Cardinal’s prophesy, the pope wrote: During my pastoral ministry in Poland, I saw for myself how …
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | December 6, 2018 , 01:09pm Heather Crockett Oram was just 13 years old when she discovered she would never be able to have biological children. At a baby, her ovaries had been removed because they had not formed properly — and almost immediately, knew she would adopt children one day. “As I grew older my biggest …
Adoption surprise: Family welcomes two babies within months of each other Read More »
BRAD MATTES DEC 5, 2018 | 1:16PM WASHINGTON, DC Much of the world is watching as the state funeral of former President George H.W. Bush unfolds. America does a good job of honoring our nation’s highest leaders when God calls them home. Both as Vice President and President, George H.W. Bush …
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by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet The speed with which gender ideology has grown from the radical fringe to a movement dominating our media, legislation, education and entertainment is nothing less than staggering. Unless you are a professional LGBT activist, keeping up with the bewildering lexicon of new terms and “gender-neutral” pronouns is an exercise in …
SAN PEDRO, California, December 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A California mother of three facing leukemia while expecting twins received news last week that may save her life after tens of thousands stepped up to potentially donate bone marrow. Susie Rabaca was praying for a perfect match so she could stay alive for her kids. She …
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