I must confess that I devour books by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. He has a style of writing that leaves me feeling as though I have just been on a weekend retreat. In recent comments to the Roman Rota (The Supreme Court of the Church), the Pope spoke of the role truth [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI: Love & Truth
Posted in Bishops, Family, tagged Love, Pope Benedict XVI, Sentimentalism on May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Phoenix Abortion: A Pediatric Cardiologist Weighs In
Posted in Abortion on May 20, 2010 | 11 Comments »
This is my third article this week regarding this issue. It won’t be the last. This afternoon I received a rebuttal from a Pediatric Cardiologist, Dr. Judith Becker. It is presented here with my rebuttal. Your thoughts??? Judith Becker MD I am a pediatric cardiologist whose expertise is in fetal diagnosis and care. In this [...]
The Pedophile Priest, The Bishop, The Nun, The Mother and Child
Posted in Abortion, tagged Abortion, Bishop Olmsted, Pedophile, Phoenix, Pulmonary Hypertension, Sister Margaret McBride on May 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Well, this was only a matter of time. An NPR article questions the justice and integrity of Phoenix Bishop Olmsted in declaring that Sister Margaret McBride incurred automatic excommunication when she gave her approval for an abortion in an 11-week pregnant 27 year-old woman with pulmonary hypertension judged to be near death. The article questions [...]
Autism, Genetic Testing, Abortion and Prevention (Part I)
Posted in Abortion, tagged Abortion, autism, Down Syndrome, Genetic Testing, Special Education on May 19, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Prophets are usually derided as madmen, and I’m sure that I’ll come in for a pounding on this one in some quarters. Research into the etiology autism’s explosion is accelerating. Molecular biologists are looking for genetic markers that can explain what’s at the root of this dilemma. Having written on this before (see here), I [...]
The Culture of Life Gains Momentum in Canada
Posted in Right to Life, tagged Canadian Pro-Life, Knights of Columbus, Ottowa on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My Colleague at HeadlineBistro and bother Knight of Columbus, Marc Nadeau, writes about the growing pro-life movement among our family in Canada. This is truly exciting stuff. Read on… Last Thursday, a crowd of more than 10,000 – the majority of which were young people – gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to express their [...]
The War Against Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Posted in Dignity, tagged Anthony Malkin, Empire State Building, Mother Teresa on May 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My article in today’s HeadlineBistro: Thirteen years after her death, the enemies of Mother Teresa are hard at work trying to suppress the celebration of her life and legacy as we approach the 100th anniversary of her birth this August. Earlier this year there was an attempt to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from issuing [...]
The Bishop, The Nun, The Mother and Child
Posted in Abortion, tagged Sister Margaret McBride on May 17, 2010 | 118 Comments »
In the case of the latae sententiae excommunication (automatic excommunication by one’s formal participation) of Sister Margaret McBride, administrator at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix Arizona, who approved the abortion of an 11-week baby because the mother was suffering from the often fatal condition in pregnancy of Pulmonary Hypertension (PHT), we simply do not know all [...]
Women Respond to Fatherlessness
Posted in Dignity, Family, tagged Fatherlessness on May 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The comments on the Growing Fatherlessness post have been an occasion of deep, deep thought for me, and prayer for one commenter in particular, New Divorcee. I learned several years ago to simply shut up and listen, actively listen to women when they speak as they have here. This is a topic that deserves more [...]
Katie Couric, ‘We Need to Double the Number of Minorities on the Pill’
Posted in Birth Control, Margaret Sanger, Uncategorized on May 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Watching this video, I have become convinced of reincarnation. Margaret Sanger has returned.
Growing Fatherlessness
Posted in Family on May 11, 2010 | 19 Comments »
A recent Pew Research Center Report on the rise in children being born to single mothers is sobering, to put it mildly. From the report: Another notable change during this period was the rise in births to unmarried women. In 2008, a record 41% of births in the United States were to unmarried women, up [...]
Bill Reel and My Life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Reel on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week the Catholic Community lost a jewel. William Reel was a New York journalist for all of his adult life. He worked for the NY Daily News in varied capacities, most notably for a column that highlighted the lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary. He did the same for The Tablet, the newspaper [...]
Are You My Mother?
Posted in Dignity, tagged Are You My Mother, IVF, Surrogate Motherhood on May 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A favorite of mine from first grade (1966) and now being read by my first grade daughter, this classic by P.D. Eastman tells the story of a bird who hatches when its mother is away, and of the search for its mother. The bird queries several animals and machines before being reunited with and introduced [...]
Aztec Revisited
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Repost in light of the impending opening of PP’s monster center in Texas this month. Their shapes are familiar to us. Four-sided stepped pyramids rising up out of the jungles and plains of the ancient Aztec Empire, the sites of blood sacrifice meant to appease the angry gods who were nothing more than an externalized [...]
It’s sex o’clock in America
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, tagged Raquel Welch on May 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m republishing an article by Actress Raquel Welch. A very hopeful sign. Thanks to Deena Stephens for sending it along. (CNN) — Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916, and nothing would be the same again. Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both [...]
Our Next Pope?
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Abortion, Cardinal Arinze on May 4, 2010 | 12 Comments »
