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, [...]
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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 »
Of Bridal Veils and Little Girls
Posted in Dignity, Motherhood, Sex Education on January 4, 2010 | 18 Comments »
Several months ago, eight year old Elizabeth climbed into my lap and asked, “Daddy, why do brides wear veils?” I looked at Regina and smiled as my bride smiled back waiting to see how I managed this one. In an instant, the leading of the Holy Spirit to be sure, I decided to give Beth [...]
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 [...]
Mary’s “Yes” and Margaret’s “No”
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Dignity, Motherhood, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Contraception, Margaret Sanger, Mary, Planned Parenthood, Sary Mother of God on January 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Today is the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. Many non-Catholic brothers and sisters object to the title and don’t understand whence it comes. An excellent, brief essay here tells the story. In light of our focus here these past few days, today’s Solemnity throws two very different women into stark relief: Mary, Mother [...]
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 [...]
Margaret Sanger: Watch Her Interview With Mike Wallace
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Birth Control, Condoms, Dignity, Eugenics, Family, Fathers of the Church, Margaret Sanger, Motherhood, Personhood, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Contraception, Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Mike Wallace, Planned Parenthooh, Right to Life on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A commenter in the comboxes believes Margaret Sanger to be misunderstood, and that we would all do well to follow the lead of her disciples at New York University. Mike Wallace interviewed Margaret Sanger 9/21/57. Watch the video here. Sanger really starts fidgeting, ducking and weaving, telling lies and conveniently forgetting in the second half [...]
Holy Innocents, Then and Now
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, Motherhood, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, Holy Innocents, Martyrs, Rachel's Vineyard, Silent No More on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs. Many will no doubt draw parallels with the Holy Innocents of our age. So let’s stop and reflect together in two posts. If one were to accept the definition of personhood given by our Culture of Death, these Innocents barely qualified, as they had [...]
Madonna of the Streets
Posted in Christmas, Motherhood, Right to Life on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Madonna of the Streets. Mary poor and destitute with her infant Jesus. It’s a lovely image. It’s also misleading. What did Mary do with gifts of the Magi; Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh? They must have been lavished in some quantity after so long a journey. Perhaps Joseph used a part of that wealth to [...]
St Ambrose’s commentary on The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Posted in Advent, Christmas, Fathers of the Church, Motherhood, Uncategorized on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings St. Ambrose: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary The angel Gabriel had announced the news of something that was as yet hidden and so, to buttress the Virgin Mary’s faith by means of a real example, he told her also that an old and sterile [...]
The Dignity of Motherhood
Posted in Dignity, Motherhood on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Motherhood has been introduced into the order of the Covenant that God made with humanity in Jesus Christ. Each and every time that motherhood is repeated in human history, it is always related to the Covenant which God established with the human race through the motherhood of the Mother of God.” -Pope John Paul II, [...]
