My article in today’s Headline Bistro. If there is one potential social-scientific study that cries out to be performed, it is the measure of the Culture of Death’s activities in a nation as a function of Christian belief and practice. In formulating a hypothesis for such a study, it would seem the anecdotal evidence suggests [...]
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Peter, Paul and a New Evangelization
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Euthanasia, Family, tagged Euthanasia, Evangelization, Culture of Death, Peter and Paul, Sacramental Marriage on June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Pope Benedict XVI: Love & Truth
Posted in Dignity, Family, tagged Love, Pope Benedict XVI, Sentimentalism on May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To Pull the Plug?
Posted in Family on March 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I attended a bioethics conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio this past weekend. The theme centered on end of life decisions and care. Much was mentioned about when it is appropriate to discontinue food and water by removing the feeding tube. Dr. Patrick Lee, Director of the Institute for Bioethics at Franciscan assembled a [...]
How Boys and Girls Differ
Posted in Family on March 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s been a heavy weekend. The health care bill, Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts, the death of a close friend’s mother who was very dear to us. So, some lighter fare, compliments of my three children, ages 10,9,6. My son and daughters were discussing the differences between boys and girls, and decided to compile [...]
Strangers In the Night
Posted in Family, tagged Naomi Wolf, Pornography on March 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I came across this excellent article on pornography’s deadening effect on the male libido. I have never been a big fan of Naomi Wolf, and certainly she is still missing some of the pieces. But she gets it with porn, and the article is dead-on when she states the following: “The onslaught of porn is [...]
The Family: Crisis and Cure (I)
Posted in Family, tagged familiaris consortio, Pope John Paul II on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Pope John Paul II understood women, men, children and families with an almost supernatural degree of nuance. His writing is best savored slowly, so we’ll take our time going through his Apostolic Exhortation on the family as it is one of the definitive pro-life documents of the Church. APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO OF POPE JOHN [...]
Our Sons and Daughters
Posted in Birth Control, Dignity, Family, Sex Education, tagged Dinity, Marriage, Sex Ed on January 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Little girls are unburdened. There is a lightness about little girls in those golden years before adolescence that is unmistakeable. Its unblemished beauty is like a rose bud, with all of the promise of the splendor about to unfold. A florist once shared that rose buds exposed to a sudden and extreme chill will not [...]
Praying for Marriage
Posted in Family, tagged Marriage, Sacrament, Vocation on January 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
A nearly universal prayer prayed at Catholic Masses during the Prayer of The Faithful is for an increase in vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. We need them, God knows. But where do they come from? Where do we find men and women who are willing to sacrifice family, career, money-all for a life [...]
Sanger Targets the Lower Classes
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Condoms, Dignity, Eugenics, Family, Margaret Sanger, Motherhood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Margaret Sanger, Negro Project, Planned Parenthood on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Above is a photocopy of Margaret Sanger’s Magazine, The Birth Control Review. Note the stated purpose of birth control below the date; Birth Control: To create a race of thoroughbreds. Sanger’s disciples would later deny attribution of that statement to her, but there it is. In previous posts we have seen repeatedly, and in context, [...]
Pope John Paul the Great to Post-Abortive Women
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, Dignity, Family, Motherhood, Quotes, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From the Encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) #99: “I would like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering [...]
Rise Up Alaska! Protect Our Daughters!
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Family, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, Alaska, Alaskans for Parental Rights, Archbishop Roger Schwietz, Archdiocese of Anchorage on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
LifeNews reports: “With time running out, Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz has called all Catholics to actively rally behind a ballot initiative that would require abortion practitioners to obtain permission from — or at least inform — parents before performing abortions on minor girls in Alaska.” The rest of the article here. More detailed information may [...]
What Sanger Missed: The Dignity of All Persons in Jesus
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Dignity, Eugenics, Family, Fathers of the Church, Margaret Sanger, Motherhood, Personhood, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, tagged Christian Anthropology, Dignity, Margaret Sanger, Nativity, Pope St. Leo the Great on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is the seventh day of the Octave of Christmas. In today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings Pope St. Gregory the Great meditates not just on our human dignity being elevated by becoming members of the Body of Christ in Baptism, but also on our dignity being elevated by sharing in His Nativity, [...]
Sanger The Eugenist
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Birth Control, Condoms, Dignity, Eugenics, Family, Margaret Sanger, Motherhood, Personhood, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This is George Grant’s well-written, scholarly work on Sanger’s deadly legacy. It’s offered to the reader in order to show how Margaret Sanger hitched her deadly agenda to the junk [...]
