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A New Year’s Resolution: Advance the True Pro-life Ethic

Posted on 07 January 2009

Every year, at about this time, many Americans make what are commonly known as New Year’s resolutions. It is no surprise to any of us mere mortals that most of these resolutions may not last beyond the time it takes…

Merck Mired in Mayhem

Posted on 03 January 2009

It was shocking when I saw it; I knew it couldn’t possibly be true, and I prayed it was a New Year’s Eve joke! But indeed, it was factually correct and my heart sank. What in the world could be…

Promises + Pledges = Promiscuity: Just another Planned Parenthood Recipe

Posted on 02 January 2009

No one who studies Planned Parenthood’s tactics would be surprised by a recent “news” item  that claims that, according to a “large federal survey,” teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage or promise to save themselves for marriage are just…

When Heroes Stand Tall, Planned Parenthood Falls

Posted on 24 December 2008

This past weekend’s news from Amarillo, Texas is an answer to prayer, steadfast focus on the evils of Planned Parenthood and commitment to expose the truth about an organization rooted in racist, eugenicist propaganda. The news is that as of…

Travesty of the Week: Catholic Health Association Applauds Daschle Nomination

Posted on 20 December 2008

If the United States Senate approves the nomination of Senator Tom Daschle as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, America will have an avowed Catholic pro-abort  at the helm of one of the most crucial departments in the entire federal…

“Embryos on Ice” … and Other Absurdities

Posted on 13 December 2008

Of all the now familiar terms we have seen and heard applied to preborn children, perhaps the most heartless is “Embryos on ice.” While the term was coined by a Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer reporter covering fertility clinics, the…

Going Green or Black

Posted on 10 December 2008

In my almost 65 years of life outside the womb, I have witnessed all sorts of trends. The Beatles, color television and fast cars are among my fondest memories of the good old days when I was young and, in…

“God is Pro-choice” Claims Nun

Posted on 03 December 2008

I couldn’t believe the e-mail that I recently received from a pro-life friend living in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She told me about a letter written by a nun to the archdiocese.

My friend told me she was “disturbed” to…

Vatican Cardinal Warns of American Getheseme

Posted on 25 November 2008

When the Catholic University of America’s Tower reported  that during a recent address at the university, His Eminence James Francis Cardinal Stafford criticized President-elect Barack Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic” and said he campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform,”…

The Final Confrontation: Who Will See It? Who Will Care

Posted on 21 November 2008

In 1976, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II in 1978, said:

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or…

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