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Where Are The Dads Protecting Their Daughters From Dangerous Male Athletes? Why have so few fathers, especially after their daughters were injured by a male, stepped forward and said, 'Not on my watch'? Alabama, Frozen Embryos, and the Law The recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court on frozen embryos has gotten a lot of attention. Not all of the reactions, commentaries, and analysis have been well-founded. The result is more confusion about how the law works, what that means for unborn children, and what we as pro-lifers need to do. 50 Years Later, I Still Anguish Over My Abortion My life has long been affected by an abortion I had at 17. Abortion kills innocent unborn babies under the guise of women?s rights. 7 Ways to Keep the Wokeness Out of Your Home and Away from Your Kids Such parents also need to be reassured that their experience is a common one, and not necessarily reflective of some great failure or oversight on their part. Most importantly, we all need to remind ourselves that this is far more of a spiritual battle than a political one, and to never underestimate the preeminent place of prayer and sacrifice for our children. Committing To Embryo Creation Instead Of Marriage Is A Recipe For Death And Disaster It's backward to commit to spending thousands of dollars creating life in a lab instead of committing to marriage. Pope: Too many young people die in madness of war Pope Francis asks again for prayers for those who suffer "terrible consequences" of conflicts, and reflects on receiving a rosary and a Gospel book from a soldier who died on the front lines. Over 230 million women and girls subjected to female genital mutilation: UNICEF More than 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM); an increase of 30 million or 15 per cent compared with figures from 2016, new UN estimates revealed on Friday. Marriage And Family, Not Money And Career, Are The Key To A Fulfilling Life Adults who are married with children report that their lives are more meaningful, compared with childless men and women, who say their lives are sad. The Abortion Drug is Killing and Injuring Women, Where are the Feminists? It should come as no shock that when all safety standards for high-risk drugs are removed, the public suffers. Experts warn of 'inhumane' treatment of embryos, 'evil' circumstances surrounding IVF A Catholic moral theologian this week warned that in vitro fertilization (IVF) "separates the things that God wanted to be together" while another expert spoke out against the "inhumane" treatment of the hundreds of thousands of human embryos produced by IVF. More Headlines…
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One of the most painful things we can ever experience is being made to feel that we don't belong. All of us have experienced this sometime in our lives. For example, some people are made to feel different because of their race or ethnic background. All around us we see the damaging effects of racism in society just because of the color of another person's skin, age (unborn/elderly), or disability (Down Syndrome). We can also be made to feel different because of our job. Other times, people can be made to feel "less than" because they struggle with physical limitations, mental illness or just feeling different from others without knowing why. We find cases like this throughout the gospels. Take for example the leper story which centers on a segment of people "not belonging". Many of us today have been singled out like the leper. In those days, lepers suffered a particular kind of ostracism. People found them disgusting. Imagine the pain and loneliness that those lepers must have felt. Wherever you find yourself today in life's journey, be assured that God is in control. He loves you. Like the leper, not only can Jesus heal you, but Jesus wants to heal you. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog... Ethical Perspectives Nathaniel Peters Chastity is a way of being more holistically directed toward our happiness regardless of the desires and attractions we experience. Terence Sweeney To assign is to flail and thrash about as we try to exert control over the uncontrollable. But to wait in the ultrasound office or in the delivery room to find out, to then share with others in this first discovery of our child's identity, to delight equally in male and female, is to recover our fundamental vulnerability to the gifts given to us. Michael Cook After the Alabama Supreme Court's recent ruling that frozen embryos deserve the same protections as children, politicians have been falling over themselves to find ways to defend the US IVF industry. I'd like to convince you that IVF is a morally complex issue, so complex and tangled that it needs to be regulated. This is the case whether or not you believe that frozen embryos are "extrauterine children" living in a "cryogenic nursery", in the words of the Court. Louis T. March First off, it's that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats merit mention. South Korea, with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.78), broke its own record at 0.72. In Japan births fell 5.1 percent, marriages almost 6 percent. Seems Europe has more fifty-plus folks than preschoolers. John Stonestreet Getting the stats right so parents can get the right kind of help.
Judie Brown Yours truly is one of those strange folks who studied Latin for four years, so I know a thing or two about this root language, including the fact that dei is the plural of deus - God. And the words Agnus Dei mean Lamb of God, a meaning far from the cultural concept of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) being used in today's cultural vocabulary. Judie Brown The God-given unalienable right to life has been redefined for the purpose of eliminating the Lord Himself and the millions whose development from the first cell onward has been denied. Douglas McManaman There are two types of people in this world: those who believe that this life is a preparation for eternal life, and those who believe that this life is all there is and that everything we do is only a preparation for life in this world. For those who do not have an interior life, who have not cultivated the habit of prayer throughout their lives, their final years and months are often very painful, very unpleasant, which is why euthanasia is becoming more popular. But those who have a rich interior life, those who have used the time in their lives to prepare for eternal life by learning to pray without ceasing, their final months or years, perhaps in a hospital bed, are not unbearable, and visiting these people is often a joy, because there is a deeper peace within them, and they are thankful. And the wonderful thing about them is that they are not asking to be euthanized. Instead of making their final act an act of rebellion and murder, their death becomes their final prayer, a final offering, a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for all they've received throughout their lives. Nicole M. King Why does Obama want to help families pay for child care? Because it's insanely expensive Judie Brown The recent headlines addressing a meeting that pro-abortion president Joe Biden is scheduled to have with Pope Francis later this month did not come as a shock. After all, the pope apparently loved his meeting with Pelosi, and it appears that he is open to any sort of meeting that suits his agenda, so Biden fits right into that scenario. Steven Mosher As we wait for President Bush to nominate a pro-life replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and possibly Chief Justice William Rehnquist, we hear a lot about the need for a strict constructionist, that is, someone who will not read their own personal prejudices (in favor of abortion, for instance) into the Constitution. But there is another danger that must be avoided as well, that of using the foreign laws of left-wing states to trump or substitute for the Constitution. We must not let the French, or the U.N., for that matter, influence our laws out of a misguided internationalism. (Steven W. Mosher) Louis T. March On their way to oblivion. They are hardly having children, and their numbers are starting to drop like a stone. Dianne N. Irving So, you think of IVF as now just a "routine" way for women to become pregnant? Think again - it's far more exciting and colorful than that - more complicated and questionable. It is itself the physical link between the medical issues involving artificial human reproduction and the scientific issues involving all sorts of human genetic engineering research. Anthony Zimmerman When laws gently pressure the citizens and lawmakers with incentives and disincentives in the right places, our currently distorted family life should take on its more natural and beautiful shape again.
Douglas McManaman Synopsis: There is probably a greater need now than in any other period in the 20th century to have the concrete moral implications of the gospel spelled out in very clear and unambiguous terms; for children cannot hope to play a game of baseball without foul lines and a determinate set of rules, and before they can begin to play, they have to know where are the foul lines and just what those rules are.
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