Catholic Culture: Manny Pacquiao, who is noted in the Philippines not only as a boxing legend but also as a prominent politician, has staked out a position firmly against the family-planning legislation now pending before the legislature. Read more here.
Category: Morals
Paying for Past Sins
Most readers of these lines will not have been around when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs first on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then on Nagasaki three days later. I was myself only a kid, … Continue reading
Cardinal George Defends Chicago’s Moral Values Against Mayor’s ‘Edict’
Catholic Culture: “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values,” Emanuel said in response. “They’re not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values.” Read … Continue reading
Bioethicist Haas Warned Catholic Relief Services Not to Give Grant to CARE
Catholic Culture: Days after Catholic Relief Services (CRS)—the US bishops’ relief and development agency—issued a statement that referred to the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) in its defense of a controversial 2010 grant, NCBC President John Haas revealed that he … Continue reading
Military Breaks Parade Rule, OKs Troops to March in Uniform for ‘Gay Pride’
NBC29.com: CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) – About 200 active-duty troops participated in last year’s San Diego gay pride parade, but they wore T-shirts with their branch’s name, not military dress. This year for the first time ever, U.S. service members … Continue reading
No Stress, No Worries, and No More Pregnancies
LifeNews’ Rebecca Feldman: As I was checking my Facebook timeline the other day, I noticed one of several advertisements on the right sidebar on my screen. It was an ad for Planned Parenthood, and it read, “No stress, no worries, … Continue reading
Ireland’s Health Minister Pushing Finn Gael Party to Introduce Abortion Legislation
Catholic Culture: Ireland’s largest political party is planning to introduce legislation that would legalize abortion. Read more here.
Why Mothers Abort Rather Than Giving Their Babies Life With Adoptive Parents
LifeNews: Author Christi Brown notes “Countless women in the U.S. choose abortion over adoption for their unborn babies every year. When I sat in on counseling sessions at a pregnancy center, I learned that women are often very closed to … Continue reading
Subversive Theology Prof at Jesuit Marquette Says US Bishops in ‘Moral Schism’
And this laicized priest not only defends unnatural sexual vice, he considers infanticide (so-called partial-birth abortion) “a necessary procedure.” Campus Notes: Daniel Maguire, the theology professor at Marquette University, seems to like getting media attention. He certainly gets it… often! … Continue reading
Mississippi Abortionist: ‘[We’re] Servicing Women’
How evil are abortionists? Read this clip provided by CatholicOnline: The clinic’s abortion provider, Diane Derzis, told reporters that in spite of the new law, she would quit doing abortions “Over my dead body” and added, “We’re going to do … Continue reading
Obama Pushes Planned Parenthood and Contraception to NH High Schoolers
Here’s a clip from his long speech in Durham. Catholic Online: You can decide that instead of restricting access to birth control or defunding Planned Parenthood, we should make sure that in this country, women control their own health care … Continue reading
Woefully Ignorant: Half of Young Adults Unaware Planned Parenthood Does Abortions
LifeNews.com: A question in a new survey Students for Life of America released last week should cause alarm for pro-life advocate working against Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business. In the Students for Life nationally-commissioned poll, young, college-aged adults, … Continue reading
Heroic Catholic Mother Succumbs to Cancer Two Weeks After Giving Birth
Despite this culture of death and abortion here we have another self-sacrificing mother pass away, Chiara “of the beautiful heart”(Corbella), who refused cancer treatment that would have endangered her pre-born baby’s life. There is, of course, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla … Continue reading
British Columbia SC Overturns Law Against Euthanasia
Zenit: Last Friday the Supreme Court of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) ruled that the current law prohibiting physician-assisted suicide is invalid. More here.
Admiral Tells Military Chaplain ‘Get in Line’ on New Homosexuality Rule or ‘Resign’
LifeSite News: Retired Col. Ron Crews, executive director of Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, “recounted an interchange in 2010 between Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a military chaplain. While Adm. Mullen was briefing the … Continue reading