It’s a happy day for pro-lifers! After 28 years, the National Organization for Women has lost in their bid to silence pro-life organizer Joseph Scheidler. Additionally, a panel of federal judges has ruled that NOW must pay court costs of $63,391.45 for Scheidler and his co-defendants for the court battle which began in 1986. The Washington Times reported that the judges called the costs “modest,” amounting to “less than $2,300 per year of litigation.” “At last it is over,” said... Read more
What do medieval mystic St. Bernard of Clairvaux and modern monk St. Padre Pio have in common? Well, they’re both saints, sharing in the eternal reward which God has prepared for them. But beyond that, both had a sincere devotion to the Shoulder Wound of Christ. * * * * * SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, the French abbott and mystic who helped to renew the Cistercian Order in the twelfth century, related... Read more
Last month, Texas Governor Rick Perry took a dip in the Little Rocky Creek near Independence, Texas. The governor was quietly baptized in a ceremony open to his close friends and family. Pastor Mac Richard of Lake Hills Church in Austin, Texas, presided over the re-dedication. Perry “reaffirmed his commitment” to his Christian faith in the same waters where Texas’s famed governor Sam Houston was baptized back in 1854. Houston, who had a sense of humor, is reported to have... Read more
This morning, I happened to read two very different stories about siblings who had just learned of a brother or sister. THE FIRST ARTICLE, posted on LifeNews.com, is the story of Claire Culwell, a survivor of abortion. Claire’s mother became pregnant at the age of 13 and decided to have an abortion; but she didn’t know that she was pregnant with twins. One child, a boy, was aborted at twenty weeks; but the abortionist failed to abort a twin girl... Read more
One day up in heaven, people were praying and praising and singing and having a good ol’ time. And John Smith, who had just died and arrived at the Pearly Gates, spotted his wife Mary, who’d been waiting for him all these years. “Honey!” he exclaimed. “How I’ve missed you! How great to see you again!” At the same time Jeanette Evans, overwhelmed by the radiant beauty of the golden path and the delicious aroma of the heavenly flowers, exclaimed... Read more
A sad story out of High Point, North Carolina: Courtney Ann Sanford was really happy–and she wanted her friends to know! The 32-year-old woman was apparently listening to Pharrell Williamas’ chart-topping song “Happy”, and she posted about it on Facebook: The happy song makes me HAPPY! That was at 8:33 a.m. At 8:34 a.m., Sanford’s car crossed the median on Business 85 in High Point and crashed head-on into a truck. Her car burst into flames. She died at the... Read more
Today in China, bulldozers are hard at work destroying what Christians have taken years to build. The Sanjiang church in Wenzhou, according to a report in the London Telegraph, has become a symbol of resistance to the Communist Party’s draconian clutch on religion. Earlier this month, thousands of Christians formed a human shield around the church in Wenzhou, a coastal city known as the “Jerusalem of the East”, after the Communist government announced that it was one of at least ten... Read more
Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. –John 20:30 SAY WHAT?! I’ve always found that single sentence in the Gospel of John to be one of the most compelling. I mean, you’re telling me there are other things that happened–other miracles, other healings, other resurrections, other multiplications of loaves and fishes–which the evangelist saw, but which he doesn’t tell us about? Well, for gosh sakes, TELL ME MORE!! *... Read more
An amazing photo from Bergamo, the northern Italy town which was the birthplace of Pope John XXIII. At the parish church in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, the faithful who did not brave the crowds at St. Peter’s Square to attend the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II in person gather to do the next best thing: They’re watching the screening with the aid of 3D glasses. AP photo by Luca Bruno. See this and other... Read more
In Hamtramck, Michigan, a Polish immigrant enclave in the center of Detroit, the parish of Blessed John Paul II was created in 2012 by the clustering of three churches: Detroit’s Transfiguration-Our Lady Help of Christians and St. Louis the King, and Hamtramck’s St. Ladislaus. In the Diocese of Buffalo, parishioners at Blessed John Paul II Church worship in a modern building, with five wooden reliefs commemorating Pope John Paul II’s life on the wall behind the simple wooden altar. Both... Read more
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