Dear Ms. Brinker, As one who has been at odds with SGK over your organization’s funding of Planned Parenthood, I write today to offer you my heartfelt gratitude and congratulations for the principled and prudential position that you have taken in defunding Planned Parenthood. Having lost many family members to cancer, and having several close [...]
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An Open Letter to Susan G. Komen Founder, Nancy Brinker
Posted in Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood, Uncategorized, tagged Defunding, Nancy Brinker, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Komen Wants Out of the Planned Parenthood Leper Colony
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Uncategorized, tagged ABC Link, Breast Cancer, Defund, Oral Contraceptives, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The first paper I ever wrote in graduate school was a review of the literature on Leprosy. It is a disease transmitted by contact that we now know to be caused by a close first cousin of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and can be cured using the same antibiotics that we use against TB. [...]
Archbishop Chaput Addressing the Growing Aggressive Eugenics in Fetal Medicine
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Eugenics, Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Archbishop Chaput, Disability, Eugenics, Fetal Medicine on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hot on the heels of our medical conference last Saturday, Therapeutic Advances in Poor Prenatal Diagnoses, comes this letter from Archbishop Chaput to the people of his archdiocese. Opposition to this new eugenics is swelling all over the nation. Here is a bishop who makes me proud of my Church. Earlier this week local media [...]
Praising God Through Adversity
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
File this one under, “Thinking Out Loud.” As years go 2011 has by all measures been a deeply challenging year for me. In the tragedy department, this year has been one that makes the law of averages work, making up for the many years of relatively smooth sailing. A recap and an analysis seem to [...]
Coming Home’s Top Ten for 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Top 10 on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
To say that it’s been quite a year would be an understatement. Looking back over the year, I’ve looked at Coming Home’s statistics to see what the top ten blog posts were in terms of traffic. Almost all were articles dealing with priest’s travails: Father Corapi and Father Pavone. Rather than leaving it at that, [...]
Coming Home is Two Years Old Today
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It was two years ago today that I began this undertaking with great trepidation and an even greater assurance that nobody would ever discover the blog. Jill Stanek, who knew better, along with her moderators Bethany and Carla really encouraged me to step out of the boat. Jill gave Coming Home a beautiful write-up two [...]
Book Review: A Special Mother Is Born
Posted in Dignity, Uncategorized, tagged A Special Mother Is Born, Book Review, Leticia Velasquez on November 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Over a year ago, friend, Catholic blogger and co-founder of KIDS (Keep Infants with Down Syndrome), Leticia Velasquez asked if I would be interested in contributing a chapter to an anthology of stories by parents of special needs children, A Special Mother Is Born. It was a book a couple of years in the making, [...]
Gardasil: What About the Boys?
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Uncategorized, tagged Boys, Gardasil on October 31, 2011 | 24 Comments »
This is a mess. It’s also one of the thorniest questions in vaccination medicine to have surfaced in a long time. From the outset, it must be clear that I am neither endorsing, nor dismissing the question of vaccinating boys. Get a cup of coffee, and let’s kick this one around for a bit. The [...]
Day Nine: Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes for Jon and the Other Victims
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2011 | Comments Off
This isn’t how we hoped this novena would conclude. Jon entered his eternal rest yesterday. The need for prayers for the victims continues. Four human beings perished as a result of this accident. Two others face a long road back to health, and countless others have been shattered by the experience. We know that God [...]
Prayers for Jon Scharfenberger
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2011 | 71 Comments »
Our other staff member injured in the accident that claimed Kortney and her baby, Sophy, is Jon Scharfenberger. I’ve been in constant contact throughout the day with our SFLA staff getting updates. It’s bad, and at 3 AM it turned really bad. It’s gotten worse throughout the day. At this point, we need a miracle [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 7
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Day 7 “See, my children, if we really wish to be saved, we must determine, once and for all, to labor in earnest for our salvation; our soul is like a garden in which the weeds are ever ready to choke the good plants and flowers that have been sown in it.”- St. Jean Vianney [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bishop Zurek, Father Pavone, Saint John Vianney Novena on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today we begin the novena to Saint John Vianney for the intentions of Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek. We begin on the feast of another priest who was recalled for a time, Saint Padre Pio. Day 1 “We have not deserved to pray – but God, in his goodness, has permitted us to speak with [...]
WANTED: Pro-life Medical Students, Resident Physicians, and Attending Physicians
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
As the new National Director for Medical Students for Life of America, I have as my first priority the goal of establishing a chapter of MSFLA in every medical school in the United States. Our outgoing coordinator, Dominique Monlezun has gotten us off to a great start by helping to start fifteen chapters last year. [...]
My New Position: National Director of Med Students for Life of America
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Today I begin a new endeavor as the National Director of Med Students for Life of America, a division of Students for Life of America. A few weeks ago, Kristan Hawkins contacted me about taking the helm of this growing organization of medical students across the country. The group has grown considerably under the leadership [...]
Update on Elise
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday was a big step forward, and a remarkable one at that. The surgeons removed her chest tube, drainage tubes from her back, arterial line, three IV’s, and sent her straight to a regular floor, skipping the step-down unit. Better still, the rehab doctors came in and ascertained that there is very slight sensation in [...]
