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Hidden Persuaders - The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement

[Weekly Standard November 7, 2011] Opponents of abortion are rarely interviewed on television these days. “It’s much harder to get on TV than it used to be,” says Charmaine Yoest, who heads Americans United for Life. Bookers of guests for news shows tell her, “We don’t want to talk about abortion. We’re tired of it.”
Photo of ultrasound
Perhaps the mainstream media are simply incapable of covering more than one social issue at a time. For the moment, the conflict over gay marriage and gays in the military is monopolizing media coverage, TV and print alike. Abortion is barely an afterthought.
There’s an upside to... Read More

The Hero You've Never Heard Of

From Focus on the Family: Posted by Jim_Daly on Sep 8, 2011 9:24:33 AM
Over the course of the last ten years, in the shadow of the White House, Richard Retta has quietly saved over 350 lives. richardretta1.jpg
But he's not a doctor, fireman, paramedic or a policeman.
The 79-year-old grandfather is a sidewalk counselor outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington D.C.
Mr. Retta's approach is understated and gentle, but direct. As a woman approaches the entrance, he walks within earshot of her, politely striking up a conversation. In those few fleeting seconds he tries to convince her to... Read More

Abortion Abatement - Keep Up the Momentum

By: Chuck Colson | Published: August 18, 2011 8:07 AM
Pro-choice activists and the liberal media are hopping mad. Find out why you should be jumping for joy.
During the Clinton years, 56 percent of Americans described themselves as pro-choice, while only 33 percent of us self-identified as pro-life. But in just a decade and a half, the numbers have completely shifted.
According to the most recent Gallup polling, pro-lifers edge out those in favor of legal abortion by 47 to 45 percent. Half of all Americans agree that abortion is morally wrong.
And the news gets even better. Following... Read More

Card. Sarah on the eternal consequences for priests afraid to uphold the Church’s teaching

Posted on 29 July 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
St. Augustine, in one of his tough sermons to his flock, spoke about the heavy responsibility of teaching a message that was hard for people to hear and accept. He invoked the stern warning in Ezekiel 3 about negligent pastors, and forged ahead. Finally, Augustine began to explain himself, tell his people why he was teaching and being so tough. Here is some of s. 17.2.
I am saying this to you and I am saving my soul. If I will have kept silent, I won’t be in great danger, I’ll... Read More

US Bishop on unrepentant pro-abort pols: ‘Treat them as a tax collector or Gentile. Expel him.’

by Christine Dhanagom
FARGO, North Dakota, August 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Church should seek the conversion of pro-abortion politicians, but if they remain obstinate they should be expelled from the Church, says Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo.
The Bishop proposed in an interview with Catholic World Report this week that Bishops should take their cue from the Gospel of Matthew in handling pro-abortion politicians.
“Our Lord tells us to speak to the person, and then take two or three others with us if he does not change,” he said. “If he still does not change, the Church can speak... Read More

Behind The Pink Ribbon

Susan G. Komen's Relationship with Planned Parenthood
Posted by Breeanne Howe (Diary)
Thursday, October 13th at 1:30PM EST
Every year thousands of women train and prepare to Race for the Cure organized by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest breast cancer nonprofit. During October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, almost every product on the shelves, from batteries to blenders, turns pink and contributes a portion of their sales to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. One needs not see the name to know who is behind the pink ribbon. Most people, however, do not know what is beyond... Read More

UN Group Releases Pro-Life Papers

International law recognizing “right to abortion” does not exist.
by Karla Dial
A new set of documents, known as the San Jose Articles, were released at the United Nations yesterday to help governments remember they are under no obligation to liberalize their laws regarding abortion.
The Articles — named for the city in Costa Rica where scholars drafted them this spring — are necessary because abortion lobbyists have waged a years-long misinformation campaign claiming international law recognizes the “right” to abortion. As a result, Colombia recently legalized abortion, and judges in Mexico are leaning that way.
In truth, international law... Read More

Largest ever study finds abortion increases risk of severe mental health problems by 81%

by Thaddeus Baklinski
LONDON, UK, September 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that women who underwent an abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of mental health problems. The study also found that almost 10% of all women’s mental health problems are directly linked to abortion.
Conducted by Priscilla K. Coleman, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, the study was based on an analysis of 22 separate studies and 36 measures of effect, that involved a total of 877,181 participants of whom 163,831... Read More

It Won't Let Go - Conscience is Not a Feeling

July 20, 2011
Paul says that God's law is "written on the heart." And although we can be desensitized to evil, we can't really forget that it's evil. Even if you drive your conscience underground, you can never erase it.
Listen to these examples taken from the recently re-released classic What We Can't Not Know by J. Budziszewski. At a meeting of fellow abortionists, a physician and a nurse described a survey of fifteen of the physician's present and former staff. You might think that abortion didn't trouble them, but you'd be wrong. Some of the staff reported that they... Read More

What Killer Cantaloupes and Abortion Pills Say About the Value of Life

By Cheryl Sullenger
Recently there has been a major food-borne illness outbreak in the United States. The Center for Disease Control has traced the outbreak of listeria, an often fatal bacterial contagion, to cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms in Colorado. So far at least 13 people have died and 72 have been sickened from eating the tainted fruit.
Authorities have asked that grocery stores pull the Jensen Farms cantaloupes from the shelf. They warn people that if they are not sure where their cantaloupes came from, they should throw them away.
“Honestly, as a nurse, I would tell people don’t... Read More

Infanticide - The Deadly Logic of Abortion in Court

By: Chuck Colson|Published: September 30, 2011 7:50 AM
When a Canadian woman strangled her newborn, the jury said it was murder. But the judge had other ideas.
In April 2005, Katrina Effert, age nineteen, secretly gave birth to a baby boy in the downstairs bathroom. She then strangled the child, wrapped him in towels, and dropped him over the backyard fence behind a neighbor’s shed.
After repeatedly lying to police and trying to pin the crime on a man she hooked up with nine months earlier, Effert finally confessed to killing the child, whom she named Rodney.
In 2006 and... Read More

Pope: No Human Life Is Dispensable

Encourages Research on Adult Stem Cells
VATICAN CITY, NOV. 14, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is acknowledging the temptations facing scientists who seek cures for degenerative illnesses, but he says that not even one human life can be destroyed for the benefit of another.
The Pope said this Saturday in an address to some 250 participants in an international conference on "Adult Stem Cells: Science and the Future of Man and Culture." The symposium was promoted by the Pontifical Council for Culture in collaboration with the U.S. Stem for Life Foundation.
The three-day meeting examined the use of adult stem cells... Read More

New Study Show Critical similarity between Embryonic Stem Cells and Ethical Alternative

September 14th, 2011 By Dave Andrusko A study out of the University of Wisconsin released late Sunday night concludes that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are 99% identical. While caution should always be exercised, the potential impact is enormous.
ESCs are lethally extracted from human embryos. iPSCs come from the patient’s own body in a process by which an adult cell—typically a skin cell—is reprogrammed and induced to revert back in time. The former is laden with ethical controversy; the latter is burdened with none.
In the past couple of years new technologies... Read More

Netherlands looks to expand euthanasia grounds to include lonely, poor

By Gracie Ferrell Published: 2:08 PM 11/15/2011
Mississippi is not alone in the modern debate over the sanctity of life. More than 4,000 miles away, the Netherlands is caught up in its own controversy over a proposal from the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) to expand the definition of who may qualify for assisted suicide — including for the first time such nonmedical factors as loneliness and financial struggles.
“Many older people have various afflictions that are not actually life-threatening but do make them vulnerable,” wrote the KNMG in a ten-year study report published in October.
“Vulnerability stems not only from... Read More

UN Considers Euthanasia and New Treaty on Aging

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.
NEW YORK, September 29 (C-FAM) The Holy See condemned attempts to inject euthanasia into the right to health and Latin American and Caribbean delegations called for a new UN treaty at two recent UN meetings on the rights of the elderly.
At the Human Rights Council in Geneva the Holy See representative said his delegation took “strong exception” to a report at the meeting which referred to “issues of patient autonomy in respect of deciding to end life.” He urged doctors and scientists to resist “practices that shorten the life of the aged and sick, practices... Read More

What if everyone thought you were in a ‘vegetative state’ but you were really conscious?

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post
Posted Nov. 10, 2011, at 10:19 p.m.
Last modified Nov. 11, 2011, at 7:03 a.m.
All the patients had the same terrible diagnosis: brain damage that marooned them in a “vegetative state” — alive but without any sense of awareness of themselves or the world around them.
But then an international team of scientists tried an ambitious experiment: By measuring electrical activity in the patients’ brains with a relatively simple technique, the researchers attempted to discern whether, in fact, they were actually conscious and able to... Read More

Incompatible with Life - Supporting Expectant Parents

By: Chuck Colson | Published: November 8, 2011 3:13 PM
As pre-natal technology improves, parents are coming face to face with life and death choices unimaginable just a few years ago. Is the Church ready to help them?
Every day, parents face hard choices big and small: Whether to send their children to private or public school; whether to allow them to watch certain shows or turn off the television.
But the gravity of some choices far exceeds these common decisions — choices that parents were never intended to make.
Every year, 150,000 babies are born with birth defects. Countless more never... Read More

The Brothers Grim - The old man and his grandson

The brothers Grimm - KHM 078
There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards... Read More

The 0.2% Solution - Crunching the Same-Sex Marriage

October 04, 2011
The pressure to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples keeps increasing. The impression is given that thousands upon thousands of gays and lesbians are unable to do the one thing they want to do more than anything else: That is, have a wedding.
As if to prove the point, the US Census Bureau announced that it would be counting same-sex households in the 2010 Census. In August the Bureau announced that there are nearly a million. I was surprised by the small number.
But this past week, they reduced their estimate of same sex couple households by... Read More

Same-sex “Marriage” v. Grandma

by Joseph Backholm on Nov 24, 2011
Over the next several months, you will likely be asked how same-sex “marriage” will affect you.
This question is asked because those trying to redefine marriage would like you to believe that it will have no impact on anyone whose names do not appear on the same-sex “marriage” license. They argue that this is a no lose situation because they will get marriage recognition and nothing changes for anyone else.
To the extent that you see the issue this way, you might be inclined to agree with them. But if you saw the... Read More

Marriage - Homosexuality

Major study: changing sexual orientation is possible

by Kathleen Gilbert
WHEATON, Illinois, September 29, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Therapists who favor normalizing homosexuality say that it is impossible to change sexual orientation, and that the attempt to change is inherently harmful. However, the final results of a long-term study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy has joined hundreds of other studies in concluding that such therapy is both possible and potentially well-indicated for many individuals.
Psychologists Stanton L. Jones of Wheaton College and Mark A. Yarhouse of Regent University are the authors of the longitudinal study, which tracked individuals who sought sexual orientation change... Read More

Dealing with Your Anger

If you don't learn how to handle anger, you will constantly hurt others.
by David Powlison
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
What makes you angry? Are they small things, like traffic jams, lines at the grocery store, not being able to find a shoe, a waiter’s mistake, or a friend’s inattention?
Are they big things, like when someone betrays you? Experiences of injustice, meanness, violence, oppression, selfishness, or lying?
How do you deal with your anger? Do you explode? Does everyone around you know when and why you are angry? Or are you more subtle?
Do you get irritated and... Read More

7 Things to Remember About Sex

Your spouse approaches intimacy much differently than you.
Bob Lepine

It’s no surprise that many husbands and wives think differently about sex. And these differences can easily become a source of conflict in marriage.
With that in mind, I want to suggest seven things men need to remember about sex and seven things wives need to keep in mind as well:
What husbands should remember about sex
1. Hollywood sex is made up. It’s a fantasy. The people in romantic scenes in movies are actors. Don’t try to measure your marital sex against what you see in a romantic film.... Read More

Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan

A Pastoral Letter of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
INTRODUCTION: THE BLESSING AND GIFT OF MARRIAGE
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens. (Eph 1:3)
Among the many blessings that God has showered upon us in Christ is the blessing of marriage, a gift bestowed by the Creator from the creation of the human race. His hand has inscribed the vocation to marriage in the very nature of man and woman (see Gn 1:27-28, 2:21-24).
Father, by your plan man and... Read More

Men sacrificing themselves for women

26 July 2009 in religion & spirituality | Tags: apostolates, men, sacrifice, women
When many people think of Ephesians 5, they think of the part about women submitting to their husbands. But men are called to an even greater, more demanding duty: to love and sacrifice themselves for their wives as Christ loved and sacrificed himself for the Church. That is, completely, even to death.
This powerful exhortation to men is the focus of this wonderful apostolate I just learned about: e5 Men
From their site:
HUSBANDS FASTING FOR THEIR WIVES
The e5 Man fasts for his bride to imitate... Read More

Top 10 Reasons Women Should Dress Modestly

10 - Modesty reflects an understanding of who a woman truly is.
Modesty starts inside a person's heart and mind. Who am I? Why do I exist? If a woman answers she is a beautiful daughter of God, then modesty will naturally follow.
9 - Modesty isn't about dressing in unattractive clothes as some think it is.
There are too many options in clothing to not give modesty a try. Yes, it might not be the first thing on the rack you go shopping for, but it is worth finding clothing that brings out a woman's beauty without revealing too... Read More

Top 10 Reasons Men Should Practice Custody of the Eyes

As a follow-up to Top 10 Reasons Women Should Dress Modestly, I give you the following:
Thanks to The Ironic Catholic for the suggestion.
10 - It helps teach discipline.
Men should discipline themselves to be in control of their passions and not allow passions to control them.
9 - It avoids the near occasion of sin.
To avert your eyes when you feel tempted to use a woman lustfully is a good thing.
“But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” -Matt 5:19.
8 -... Read More