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Forming Your Children for Chastity: A Letter to Parents Fr. Carter Griffin: "We have two very formidable weapons: your parental love, the strongest and most powerful love this side of heaven, and God's grace. Together, those two can take on any army of marketers and IT experts and psychologists." A Parent's Testimony: Truth and Love This parent's testimony highlights the importance of truth AND love, choosing your battles, maintaining a strong and loving relationship with your child, the dangers of tech use, and much more! Southwest Airlines Pays Stewardess $1 Million After Firing Her for Being Pro-Life Southwest Airlines has paid nearly $1 million to a longtime flight attendant it fired for expressing her pro-life religious beliefs. The babies we're not having New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what demographers have been watching with growing alarm: American women are having fewer children than ever before. Media continues to push 'polyamory' as the next step in the sexual revolution Those pushing for polyamory say society is the problem, the law is the problem - and it is your job to minimize the legal fallout of their immorality. 11,105,671 Babies Killed in Abortions Since UK Legalized Abortion 58 Years Ago The number of abortions in England and Wales has reached a record high. U.S. fertility rate falls to record lows as births continue to decline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently revealed that America's fertility rate has fallen to its lowest point in recorded history as fewer women have children and millions postpone pregnancy. US saw more than 1.12 million abortions in 2025, but actual figures likely higher New data estimates show the number of abortions in the U.S. remained stable in 2025, totaling some 1.126 million, with apparent declines in out-of-state travel for abortions offset by increasing access to telehealth abortions. DIY Abortion Returns: From Back Alleys to Bathrooms For decades, the most potent image deployed in favor of legalized abortion has been the coat hanger. The message has always been blunt: If abortion is not provided by licensed physicians using sanitized instruments, women will resort to desperate and dangerous methods on their own. Protecting the Sibling Stephanie Winn (LMFT) discusses the impact of trans-identification on families and siblings. She writes, "When one child in a family transitions -- especially an older child who has influence, charisma, or the mystique of rebellion -- parents naturally worry about the other children. Will the younger sibling follow?...Not every younger sibling is equally vulnerable. Understanding the risk and protective factors helps you calibrate your response." More Headlines…
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Since the birth of the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has provided hope and a path to parenthood for many couples who cannot conceive naturally. The Catholic Church, however, has consistently rejected IVF - not out of hostility to suffering couples, but because of deeper beliefs about marriage, human life, and the dignity of the human person. The Church opposes IVF largely because the process usually creates multiple embryos in a laboratory. Some are implanted, but others are frozen, discarded, or destroyed. Since the Church views each embryo as a human life, this loss of embryos is considered morally unacceptable. The inherent dignity of a human person deserves full moral and legal respect and protection. The Church teaches that embryos must never be treated merely as a means to an end.
Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog... Ethical Perspectives Douglas McManaman In romantic love, the one who has fallen in love sees the beloved as God sees the beloved. But this can only happen if God gives the one who is in love (the lover) a sharing in the way He sees the beloved. And so, this is a grace; it is an illumination. And that is why in the experience of falling in love, the one in love is very much preoccupied with the beloved, thinks of the beloved a great deal more than he or she otherwise would. Judie Brown The simple fact that every human being has a similar beginning as a single cell fertilized egg seems to be more than some people can comprehend. This came into stark focus when we read Professor Risa Cromer's article entitled "Embryo Personhood's IVF Problem: What the Data Reveals." Philip Irvin What if we replace traditional pronouns with biological chromosome labels XY and XX? A strategy to push back against transgender ideology and reclaim gender as biologically determined.
Adeline A. Allen Marriage and family are among the basic goods of the good life, of flourishing, of delights. Shakespeare is cheering us on. May we take heart and enter the dance. Susan Ciancio Awkward. Embarrassing. Uncomfortable. Any or all of these words are likely to describe the way that parents feel when they think about teaching kids about sex. But acknowledging and overcoming these feelings - one of the more difficult parts of Catholic parenthood - is incredibly necessary if we are to raise children who see themselves as gifts to others and who then go out into the world to live as gifts.
The Truth Will Make You Free John Paul II on Freedom, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life Christopher Kaczor Freedom to achieve the goal of human life is aided and enhanced through the revelatory instruction - what to do and what to avoid, or law - that comes from God. "Patterned on God's freedom, man's freedom is not negated by his obedience to the divine law," wrote John Paul. "Indeed, only through this obedience does it abide in the truth and conform to human dignity" (VS 42). God, who is most free, cannot do evil and can do only good; so too a human being is most free when doing good and makes himself less free through doing evil. "In his journey towards God, the One who 'alone is good,' man must freely do good and avoid evil. But in order to accomplish this he must be able to distinguish good from evil" (VS 42). Natural law - the law that is written in our hearts - is the divine help given by God to all people to enable them to do good and avoid evil. Asia Human Rights The Amnesty International has published a collection of poems titled ' Silenced Shadows'. Douglas McManaman Many were invited to the wedding, and many refused the invitation; they took it lightly, for they had other business to attend to. And this is typical, even today. Many people will come to this banquet, the Mass - which is a real wedding banquet in which we feast on the bread of life and in which we become joined to the bridegroom in a one flesh union - when they have time, if there is nothing more important to do, as if there is something in this world that is more important than preparing for eternal life. David C. Reardon Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently declared that recent research demonstrates that acetaminophen use by pregnant women is a "a root cause of autism." Studies examining this link report that the risk of autism increases somewhere between 7 and 35 percent for unborn children exposed to this commonly used pain medication. John Stonestreet How a Supreme Court case aimed to change marriage but redefined family instead. Arthur Goldberg Arthur Goldberg, founder of JIFGA, spoke with Church Militant. "We're going to basically have a site that will try to raise money for those who are standing up for biblical values," he said. Douglas McManaman Synopsis: A tattoo is an artificial means of identifying and defining oneself. But if we continue to grow psychologically, the tattoo is a mark on our body that is destined to belong to another era of our lives that we are going to want to remember only occasionally, and often just for a laugh.
Douglas McManaman Some actions have two effects simultaneously, a good effect and an evil effect. Such actions are genuine dilemmas. For example, if the police officer shoots, he will free the hostage, but he will also likely kill the perpetrator; if the doctor removes the cancerous uterus, he will save the woman's life, but removing the uterus will also kill the child. What does a person do in such a scenario? Good is to be done, and evil is to be avoided, but in these scenarios, it is not possible to avoid evil when good is to be done. Jill Simons When it comes to children's health, ideology should never override evidence. Children who are distressed about their biological sex need evidence-based care that facilitates their journey to adulthood, keeping them mentally and physically intact. Steven Mosher It is evident to us at PRI that this whole "PAC" business is an extremely convenient mechanism for abortion-friendly donors - including USAID at the present time - to keep abortion "in play." Under the guise of providing "post-abortion care," USAID-funded groups in countries where abortion is illegal can train abortion providers, quietly lobby for the legalization of abortion, and even perform abortions, as Marie Stopes does in Madagasca, Kenya and elsewhere.
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