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Stevie Nicks vs Pope Leo on Freedom
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Stevie Nicks vs Pope Leo on Freedom

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by on Oct 26, 2020 in Featured, Live in Christ, Music, Those in Need, Uncategorized
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In a recent interview with The Guardian, Rocker Stevie Nicks revealed her confusion to think that sex, drugs and rock and roll were greater than her baby. She ended her child’s life in 1979 while dating Don Henley of The Eagles. “There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as […]

Vatican Defends Unborn at UN World Summit
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Vatican Defends Unborn at UN World Summit

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by on Jun 08, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The Vatican reminded world leaders there is no international right to abortion at a global summit in Istanbul last month. The Holy See rejected European proposals to create a new right to abortion under the Geneva Conventions, also known as international humanitarian law or the laws of war. The “Holy See emphasizes that there is […]

Remembering an Old Friend who Saved Lives
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Remembering an Old Friend who Saved Lives

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by on Mar 29, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Evangelization, Featured
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“I’ve been served with a restraining order. I need a lawyer. Will you help me?” I answered the call one evening in 1989. I said yes and, as it turned out, from that point forward I have been active in the pro-life movement. The caller was Chuck Pelletier, founder of the local pro-life center here […]

Rejecting Abortion, Affirming Life
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Rejecting Abortion, Affirming Life

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by on Jan 28, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Marriage, Those in Need
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Thousands braved severe weather last week to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C., giving a vital public witness to the sanctity of life. In this column, however, I will reflect on a very personal situation with my wife’s first pregnancy six years ago, when abortion was presented to us as an option. Our […]

Thanksgiving, Freedom and Life
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Thanksgiving, Freedom and Life

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by on Nov 26, 2015 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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A Pythagorean writer once expressed the role of civil authority this way: “The monarch has an irrepressible authority (and is therefore not limited by consent); he is a living law; he is like a god among men.” How different America is. Our Founders came here for freedom, a freedom that recognized that no human being […]

Miscarriage is the Loss of a ‘Real’ Child and Requires Compassion
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Miscarriage is the Loss of a ‘Real’ Child and Requires Compassion

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by on Oct 19, 2015 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The wound comes from well-meaning people. “Well, it wasn’t that far along.” “You can always have another child.” “Lots of people go through this.” Miscarriage is a tragedy that so many people misunderstand. They are not quite sure how to console a friend or relative who has suffered this loss. While there are no magic […]

The Joy of the Gospel of Life
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The Joy of the Gospel of Life

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by on Oct 08, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Evangelization, Featured
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When I was about middle school age, I participated in a life chain with my mom. We lined up shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of other pro-life people along a busy stretch of road in my hometown. We held up pro-life signs and prayed.  I don’t remember much about the day, except where we were standing, and […]

Abortion Celebrations
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Abortion Celebrations

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by on Apr 20, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Women
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If you’re happy killing babies, clap your hands. If you’re happy killing babies, clap your hands. If you’re happy baby killing and for you its so fulfilling, If you’re happy killing, babies clap your hands.   The Abortion Industry has been having “Abortion celebrations” around the country whose themes include: “Celebrate the death of your […]

Nigerian Bishops March, Sing and Train at Pro-Life Conference
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Nigerian Bishops March, Sing and Train at Pro-Life Conference

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by on Apr 20, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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“We had to limit the number of people in each diocese who could come,” said one organizer of a pro-life and pro-family conference in Ibadan, Nigeria. Over 1,500 filled the auditorium, and even then people spilled outside. One region with a small Christian population extended invitations to their Muslim neighbors who gladly attended. Bishops in […]

Holy Week, Choice and the Problem of Evil and Sin
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Holy Week, Choice and the Problem of Evil and Sin

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by on Apr 02, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ
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We are in Holy Week 2015, so it is most appropriate to consider the problem of evil and sin. The sacrificial Passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ was to settle with God the problem of human sin and evil. I have often heard the question, “If there is a God, why does he permit […]

On Brother Paul O’Donnell’s Death and ‘Being There’
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On Brother Paul O’Donnell’s Death and ‘Being There’

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com, Those in Need
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As news of the untimely death of Brother Paul O’Donnell spreads, there will be many remembrances by those who knew him well. Perhaps none more than Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo. Brother Paul distinguished himself, and the Church, by being the constant companion and supporter of the Schindler family as their severely brain damaged daughter, Terri, […]

Making the Right Decision
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Making the Right Decision

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by on Jan 26, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Evangelization, Featured, The Feminine Genius
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She was 19 years old. Still in college. Had a job, though not yet a career. Still living at home with her parents. She was young and beautiful and intelligent and fun – and in love. She and her fiance planned to be married in about nine months, and they were deep into plans for […]

Jesus Here and Now: Mini-miracles
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Jesus Here and Now: Mini-miracles

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by on Jan 23, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ
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The Gospels recount Jesus’s healing of a paralytic who is lowered through the roof of a house. Initially, Jesus tells the man “Your sins are forgiven.” This upsets some scribes and Pharisees who ask themselves, “Who is this man who blasphemes and forgives sins?” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil […]

A Debate Still Worth Having
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A Debate Still Worth Having

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by on Nov 20, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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“I had an abortion. I was not in a libertine college-girl phase, although frankly it’s none of your business. I was already a mother of two, which puts me in the majority of American women who have abortions. Six out of 10 are mothers, which makes sense, because a mother could not fool herself into […]

Vocations: All About Life
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Vocations: All About Life

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by on Nov 06, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, MyChurchParish.com, Vocations
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This week (November 2 – 8) is Vocations Awareness Week. Since I began my full-time work with Priests for Life over 20 years ago, one of the first things I became aware of was that many young people today are finding their vocation precisely because of the Church’s witness to the sanctity of life amidst […]

Sugar-Coating Abortion
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Sugar-Coating Abortion

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by on Oct 28, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Remember the days when pregnant women were told it was just a clump of cells and not a baby? Who wouldn’t mind getting rid of a clump of something? Then, sonograms were invented and revealed stages of fetal development and well, what the heck, it turns out there were babies in there. Who knew? The […]

Life Chain 2014 to be held across North America on Sunday, Oct. 5
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Life Chain 2014 to be held across North America on Sunday, Oct. 5

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by on Sep 16, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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On the first Sunday in October every year Life Chain invites people in every city, town and village in North America to stand on a designated local sidewalk and spend 60 to 90 minutes in silent prayer for the pre-born and for an end to abortion. This year’s Life Chain, the 27th annual public witness […]

Stop Big Abortion
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Stop Big Abortion

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by on Jun 23, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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An outstanding pro-life Facebook page entitled Big Abortion focuses on the positive aspects of the development of the individual from his creation onward. It contains facts about why celebrating a human being’s life is a positive, and shows that killing him is the ultimate cruelty. The fact is that Big Abortion is an industry that […]

Our Risen Lord Gives us Strength to Build a Culture of Life
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Our Risen Lord Gives us Strength to Build a Culture of Life

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by on Apr 29, 2014 in Catholic Bioethics, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him? (Romans 8:31) This exhortation by Saint Paul vividly expresses the full extent of the love of God the Father and […]

The Pro-Life Movement's Last and Best Hope
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The Pro-Life Movement’s Last and Best Hope

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by on Apr 11, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, On Books
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In Dostoevsky’s epic novel, The Brothers Karamazov, brothers Ivan and Alyosha engage in a deep discussion about God – his existence and his goodness. Expressing frustration at his brother’s rejection of faith, Aloysha declares that if there is no God, “everything is permitted.” The truth of this observation may be seen in the ongoing debate over […]

Book Review: <i>Tiny Blue Lines</i>
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Book Review: Tiny Blue Lines

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by on Mar 10, 2014 in Featured, On Books, Parenting
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When Chaunie Marie Brusie faced an unplanned pregnancy in her senior year of college, she didn’t know where to turn for help. Now an obstetric nurse, married mother of three, and founder of TinyBlueLines.com, she is working hard to make sure that other young women have resources to help them cope with this unexpected and […]

Politics and the Pulpit: Part Two: The IRS is Not the Law
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Politics and the Pulpit: Part Two: The IRS is Not the Law

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by on Feb 26, 2014 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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The American people are more fed up with the IRS than ever before, and want to see an investigation into the abuses that have been — and continue to be — perpetrated there. This frequent theme of news reports these days intersects perfectly with our ongoing series regarding the position of Churches regarding politics and […]

3D Printing Lets Blind Parents Hold Model of Their Unborn Child
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3D Printing Lets Blind Parents Hold Model of Their Unborn Child

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by on Feb 24, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Tips, Tools, Tech
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A Brazilian company is using 3D prenatal imaging technology and 3D printing to produce physical replicas of a baby growing in the womb, allowing moms- and dads-to-be to hold a model of their unborn child in their hands. Neva Fairchild of the American Foundation for the Blind told Tech Page One that the models would […]

Faith: The Only Sure Foundation for Human Dignity
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Faith: The Only Sure Foundation for Human Dignity

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by on Feb 20, 2014 in Catholic Bioethics, Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards recently tweeted out a short video featuring her suggestions of what women really need for Valentine’s Day. Among a litany that included “well woman visits,” “cancer screenings,” and “birth control,” was “safe & legal abortion.” All of this, we’re mockingly informed, is “really radical stuff” which, of course, is a sarcastic quip […]