I live in earthquake territory. So when I read the news about a major earthquake and that cities the size of my city are reduced to rubble in China, I feel like their city could so easily be my city. Right now, China needs our prayers for: *Roadways to be cleared of debris so help can reach those currently cut off. *Help for those buried and still alive under rubble. Dear Mary, we ask for your powerful intercessory prayers in... Read more
The truth of Christian life is like manna: it is not possible to hoard it for it is fresh today and spoiled tomorrow. A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. The vessel that holds it — for example, the language, the world of images and concepts –becomes dusty, rusts, crumbles away; that which is old remains young only when it is drawn, with all the strength of youth,... Read more
Good… Apparently, McCain does not see global warming as a myth: “The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington,” McCain said in remarks he planned to give at the Vestas Wind Technology plant. “Good stewardship, prudence, and simple common sense demand that we act to meet the challenge, and act quickly,” he added. “I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without... Read more
It has been my hope that through this dialogue the Governor would come to understand her obligation: 1) to take the difficult political step, but necessary moral step of repudiating her past actions in support of legalized abortion and 2) in the future would use her exceptional leadership abilities to develop public policies extending the maximum legal protection possible to the unborn children of Kansas. Having made every effort to inform and to persuade Governor Sebelius and after consultation with... Read more
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center, tells us that it is an open question. While it is always and in every case immoral to directly kill a human zygote or embryo, the moral status of this action is not based upon the certainty that a human zygote is a person or has a soul. The moment of “ensoulment” has been a debate in Catholic theology for a millennium and a half, and even occupied... Read more
Sometimes is seems like every day the line between parody and reality gets a little harder to draw. To wit.: A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring “account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms.” No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, “The Dignity of Living Beings... Read more
Thank God for all of the women who gave us life in a Culture of Death and who helped make us the people we are today. Love your mama today! Read more
If you’re a married woman living in the New York City area, there’s a better than 50 percent chance that you don’t work, according to a recent analysis of Census data by economists affiliated with the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. More specifically, only 49 percent of white high school-educated married women in their prime working ages were holding down jobs in the New York area as of the 2000 Census. To put that in perspective, there are roughly 2... Read more
What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than to donate money to Planned Parenthood and drastically shorten the time someone spends as a mother! That’s what actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner say by their actions. Nothing prevents an infant from getting to Meet the Parents like A Perfect Murder. Read more
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, `Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'” Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:37 –... Read more
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