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NYT op ed “Looking Away from Abortion
By Ross Douthat, who is the once a week Catholic on the NY Times op ed pages. Douthat's column could have been titled "Facing Reality" as he writes about the recent Planned Parenthood expose' videos. It takes four minutes to read the op ed so don't just read the excerpt we'v posted below the link.…
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Sojourner’s – liberal evangelical group – condemns Planned Parenthood
Although Sojourner's is a member of Consistent Life they rarely mention abortion. Jim Wallis is the head of Sojourner's and usually is in lock-step with whatever the Democrat Party says. Not this time. From his Hearts and Minds weekly email. Excerpts below from the full posting which is linked here, and if you hit the…
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Wahington Post poll: “large majority of Americans are unhappy with where the nation is headed on social issues.”
Here's the article. Liberals have won a series of victories on social issues. Most Americans aren’t thrilled about it. Sixty three percent of people say they are uncomfortable with the country's overall direction on social issues these days; four in 10 feel "strongly" uncomfortable about the nation's changes. Plenty of data in the article.
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Heartbreaking story of four Chinese children
Difficult to read. When family structure is demolished … China’s forgotten children The purpose of preserving and protecting the family structure is largely to protect the vulnerable: children, the elderly and women (or men in some cases) who sacrifice present and future income to bring up their children and cultivate the ‘family life’ of the…
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Joe Carr, on his way to heaven
We just received word that the beautiful Joe Carr of Mahopac died surrounded by his family on Monday. This from Peg Doherty: We thank God for the beautiful, Pro-Life witness of Joe Carr, the co-founder of our Respect Life Society. He went to his eternal reward on Monday, May 4th following the Divine Mercy chaplet. …
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The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) 20th anniversary
Pope John Paul II (Saint John Paul!) encyclical spells it out … worth reading even just the first few paragraphs The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) 1. THE GOSPEL OF LIFE is at the heart of Jesus' message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as…
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NY Times endorses assisted suicide/euthanasia
No surprise. They backed it when "Dr." Kevorkian was doing his thing, but then kind of steered away from it after initial enthusiasm. Kevorkian was just a little too tacky for their taste. The editorial contains the usual verbal engineering we've come to expect from "progressive" policies. the editorial is 11 paragraphs long. The right-to-die…
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe – December 12th
Named Patroness ofthe Unborn by Pope John Paul II in 1999. "The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground" (Gen 4:10). Here is an interesting history: Our Lady of Guadalupe “Patroness of the Unborn”
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Priests for Life will not obey the Obamacare contraception/abortion mandate
Having just lost "… the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, which ruled against Priests for Life's challenge to the HHS mandate in the case Priests for Life et al. vs. US Dept. of HHS et al…" They were not the only plaintifs in the case. Hit the link for the others. Here…
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Elise Stefanik, from NY; youngest woman ever elected to Congress! & Pro-life
What about the War on Women? She's pro-life. A Republican – elected in a District held by a Democrat since 1990. Harvard graduate – here's her wiki. This 30-Year-Old Rising GOP Star Just Made History And here's a profile off Business Insider – On the trail in a sprawling district that spans from Saratoga Springs…