.- The weekly Catholic publication Alba in Spain has published the story of an 84 year-old woman who was forced by her ex-husband to undergo an abortion 57 years ago before they were married. She told Alba that despite the counseling she has received over the years, she has never been able to overcome her depression and was never able to carry a child to term.
Read this article here: Catholic News Agency
TOPEKA, Kansas, March 31 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is reporting that the total number of abortions done in Kansas dipped in 2007, with the most remarkable decrease in late-term abortions. Those generally decreased by 23 percent while late abortions done after viability dropped 28 percent.
"We fully expected to see a dramatic drop in late-term abortions in Kansas due to the fact that late-term abortionist George Tiller closed his abortion mill to patients for a record 38 days last summer," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We believe that closure was a result of a number of factors, including pressure from pro-life groups and criminal charges that were unexpectedly filed against him by the attorney general's office."
"We strongly believe in the power of prayer, and last year Operation Rescue hosted three major prayer events outside Tiller's abortion mill prior to the closure," said Newman. "We also aggressively brought pressure on Tiller's abortion business through our tireless investigations, which have exposed what we believe is criminal activity committed by his abortion staff. We publicly released our information and reported it to law enforcement, the legislature, and other disciplinary groups."
However, the statistics also show an unfortunate increase in the number of abortions done on women who reside in other states. Operation Rescue attributes this increase to the recent closure of several abortion clinics in nearby states.
"This is a good news, bad news situation," said Newman. "While we are grateful that dangerous abortion mills are closing around the nation, it is unfortunate that Kansas has become a magnet for child-killing. This only adds to Kansas's reputation of being the Nation's Abortion Capital."
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation. Operation Rescue recently made headlines when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.
Wider probe of Planned Parenthood sought amid new allegations of fiscal wrongdoing by abortion giant
Some thoughts on a Catholic's endorsement of Barack Obama
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Earth Hour's Soft Fascism - Check Your Brains at the Door
Masterminded by the anti-population World Wildlife Fund Earth Hour is "Far from being a harmless gesture of support for the environment", says the National Post's Peter Foster. He warns, "If you love civilization, freedom and the use of reason, keep on all the lights you need on Saturday."
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=399189
Carbon Sense Coalition: 'Earth Hour' Should be Renamed 'Dark Hour'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/29/carbon-sense-coalition-earth-hour-should-be-renamed-dark-hour
Google Blacks Out Homepage During 'Earth Hour' to 'Combat Climate Change'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/29/google-blacks-out-homepage-during-earth-hour-combat-climate-change
Getting Mrs. Clinton - Peggy Noonan
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
The Clintons' Truth Deficit Disorder By Michelle Malkin
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/03/26/the_clintons_truth_deficit_disorder
Spanish bishops: No Catholic can support abortion, euthanasia or research with embryos
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12181
Eugenic practices in Spain leading to "extinction" of Down's syndrome children
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12172
"Adoption in the womb" - Conservative legislators in Mexico's capital city propose law that would give mothers an alternative to abortion
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=b953646b-dbaa-41bb-8373-27d3f7b002ff
Planned Parenthood Fights Parents Over Abortion Records: Court Reconsiders Decision
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-28-2008/0004782173&EDATE=
Planned Parenthood sinking $10 million into its Political Action Committee, hoping to load the Congress with abortion allies
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU08C19
World's largest abortion provider losing ground in court
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=73313
84 year-old woman who had abortion 57 years ago still suffers depression
http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12179
Vietnamese man, on anti-abortion mission, opens home to moms and babies
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/28/asia/AS-FEA-GEN-Vietnam-Abortion-Orphans.php
British Muslims Fully Support Catholic Leaders In Their Opposition To The Embryo Bill, UK
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101824.php
Dobson editing radio show to avoid 'hate crimes' laws
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60196
Teachers union to decide fate of homeschooling?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60092
What's behind today's epidemic of teacher-student sex?
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=35370
Eviction looms over Philly Boy Scouts
http://onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=73623
Cautious Vatican response to Muslim critics on conversion
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57504
The Story of a Convert from Islam – Baptized by the Pope at St. Peter's - Chiesa on line
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/195566?eng=y
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BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (on human life) in 1968 in which he reiterated the Catholic Church's ban on artificial contraception. He also warned of the dangers of an increase in abortions, euthanasia, divorce, sexually transmitted diseases, and the threat to marriage and the family. The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy will honor the 40th anniversary of that prophetic document at its annual conference for priests, deacons, and seminarians this JULY 14-17, 2008. Open to all Catholic clergy in good standing. This year's meeting will be in Baltimore, due to the bicentennial of the Archdiocese.
Cost is $129/night at the Radisson Cross Keys (Baltimore) and $150 conference fee.
Invited/tentative speakers include: (open to change)
Archbishop Edwin O'Brien
William Cardinal Keeler
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer (Human Life International)
Dr. Janet Smith
Dr. Alveda King (niece of Dr Martin Luther King)
Fr. Peter West (Priests for Life)
Dr. Alan Keyes
More details at CCC website
www.catholic-clergy.org
The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is an association of 600 priests and deacons across the USA and Canada who are committed to fostering ongoing spiritual, theological and pastoral formation of the clergy in a fraternal context. Founded in 1975, the organization seeks to promote fraternal support among the ordained ministry to better preach the Gospel and and to teach the doctrines of the Catholic Christian religion to the faithful. Last year's meeting was in St. Louis with Archbishop Raymond Burke as keynote speaker.
Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Makes $1 Billion Profit for
First Time
Washington, DC -- A new annual report from Planned Parenthood
shows the nation's largest abortion business has made over $1
billion in profit for the first time in its history. The
non-profit pro-abortion group shows the historical gain in its
new annual report covering 2006-2007.
The report shows an increase in the number of provided abortions
from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006.
Full story at: http://www.lifenews.com/nat3822.html
Conservative legislators in Mexico's capital city propose law that would give mothers an alternative to abortion
With the goal of offering an alternative to women who may be considering abortion, members of the National Action Party in the Legislative Assembly of Mexico's capital city, the Federal District, have proposed a reform to the Code of Civil Procedures that would add "adoption in the mother's womb."
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China's Strangulation of Tibet is Only Extension of Suffocation of Liberty in China Itself
Father Raymond J. De Souza writes in Today's National Post, "Is there any other regime that still imprisons and kills bishops, priests and monks who fail to swear loyalty to the state? Is there any other country where the entire population is subject to child-bearing control, with forced sterilization and abortions for those who decline to submit to state rules on family size?"
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=402256
Poland will ignore Council of Europe on abortion
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57460
Margaret Somerville on late-term abortion
http://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-blue-wave-exclusive-margaret.html
Without Christianity, our society is doomed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/21/do2102.xml
UK Embryo Bill: How Catholics used their power
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/25/nbrown925.xml
Malta Government resolute on anti-abortion stand
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080325/local/government-resolute-on-anti-abortion-stand
Arizona passes state partial-birth abortion ban
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12161
Nat Hentoff Lays Into Obama on Schiavo
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/nat-hentoff-lays-into-obama-on-schiavo.html
What is lacking in Canada? The sorry state of the politics of abortion in Canada
http://catholicinsight.com/online/political/abortion/article_800.shtml
Pregnancy top reason young women get fired in Spain
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12157
UK Marriage hits lowest rate since records began almost 150 years ago
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23465208-details/Marriage+rates+hit+lowest+rate+since+records+began+almost+150+years+ago/article.do
Liberals Want Federal Abstinence Education Cut
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006912.cfm
Polls: Democrats Love McCain
http://newsmax.com/insidecover/Polls_Democrats_McCain/2008/03/26/83310.html
U.S. Election Enthusiasm - Fr. Frank Pavone
http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/70918
Prominent conservative, a Catholic, and former counsel to President Reagan endorses Barack Obama
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=4270cee4-3f5d-4807-9046-02a42ee4452c
Oprah labeled 'false prophet' and 'conduit ... to Hell'
http://onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=73537
Any serious discussion of race must address out-of-wedlock births - The connection between family breakdown and child poverty is well established
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/923fdspn.asp
Canadian National Prayer Breakfast to attract 1,000 in Ottawa
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/march/24/national_prayer_breakfast/&c=2
Most 'dyfunctional Parliament' since Pearson's minority governments, says Franks
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/march/24/legislation/&c=2
Canadian byelection results put off election, for now, say top Liberal insiders
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/march/24/byelection/&c=2
Sources at British Spy Agency Confirm Tibetan Claims of Staged Violence
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-3-27/68095.html
In Canada, Chinese Media Stir Up Anger Against Tibetans - airs on Rogers Cable
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-3-27/68105.html
Monks in tears cry out against lies while Beijing instructs foreign journalists
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11862&size=A
Osama and The Pope
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25661&s=rcme
Saudi Arabia Says No To A Catholic Church: The Islamic Fear of Freedom of Religion
http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_7306.php
There will be more active Muslims than Christians or Catholics in Britain by the middle of the century.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010435649
Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/us/26muslim.html?ex=1207195200&en=0d53bf4186e17a7f&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY
Allam & Allah
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3318/pub_detail.asp
Are secularism and Islam cousins? They are in effect profoundly united in their common denial of any link between faith and reason.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/are_secularism_and_islam_cousins/
Angry Vista Users Vent Over SP1 Driver Issues
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143708/article.html
You're Not Alone: Microsoft Execs Struggled with Vista
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142957/article.html
"Pregnant Man" Isn't a Man
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/pregnant-man-isnt-man.html
Catholics warn about gay-friendly teaching guide
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/reportcard/archive/2008/03/26/catholic-group-warns-about-gay-friendly-teaching-guide.aspx
BC Catholics told to "resist, counter, and protest" new curriculum
http://noapologies.ca/?p=435
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| Humanae Vitae Priests | ||||||
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| The Challenge: The Clueless Catholic By John Mallon In their issue of February 11, 2008, Newsweek magazine carried a column in which the author unwittingly shed a great deal of light on a glaring problem in the Church today. Namely, the ignorance of the Catholic Faith by otherwise educated Catholics. It is a clear case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing, or to bring it back to the words of Jesus, "Beware of the learned and the wise, they will lead you astray." Despite dissenters' affection for "nuance," their statements on moral issues are often received (and broadcast in the media) in a very "unnuanced" way, and all too often interpreted by the public as, "Hey, that means it's okay!" As the movement for dissent against the Catholic faith was getting off the ground one argument said, "This is the most educated generation of Catholics in history, we don't need the Church telling us what to do!" And with that, the entire catechetical structure of the Church in the West proceeded to fall apart. The author of the Newsweek column, "Talking to Kids about God," Kathleen Deveny is a product of that collapse. She acknowledges the results of her failed religious education: "It's not just about the gaps in my education. As a 'cafeteria Catholic,' I don't accept all the tenets of my religion. I am never going to teach my daughter that evolution is a fraud, and someday I will encourage her to think critically, not doctrinally, about issues like artificial birth control, stem-cell research and abortion." Mrs. Deveny is the product of a catechetical culture that packaged the Catholic Faith in CCD classes as "subject matter" rather than an encounter with the Living God. After the required lessons, kids would then "graduate" from the dull lessons (and active participation in the life of the Church) with the sacrament of Confirmation. (The precise opposite of the true meaning of the sacrament, which is to launch the Catholic into the great adventure of life in the Holy Spirit.) She's not alone. There are numerous prominent Catholics who boast of their Catholicism but who clearly "don't get it." The public pronouncements on the faith from the likes of Chris Matthews, Sean Hannity, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Phil Donahue, ad nauseam, are an embarrassment. We find similar attitudes in our parishes and even our own families. This is the landscape we face trying to educate Catholics on the truth and beauty of Humanae Vitae, a full forty years after its publication. Many Catholics have never heard this at all. The text of this great document is not difficult, it is simple, gentle and clear. It is also a matter of life and death. Forty years of experience and reflection have only vindicated and strengthened the document. In this series, we will explore the dangers of widespread contraceptive use Paul VI predicted, and others which have emerged, as part of Human Life International's Humanae Vitae Initiative, as an aid to priests and all interested parties in teaching the truth of this document. HLI's founder, Father Paul Marx, OSB, was fond of quoting the great Dr. Jerome LeJeune that Humanae Vitae may turn out be the most important encyclical in history. Catholics have a responsibility to know the truth, that it is not good enough to dismiss vital Church teachings on the basis of nonsense they heard in bad religious ed or get as adults through the media. They don't simply need remedial catechesis; they need evangelization. The Bride must be introduced to the Bridegroom. It goes back to the First Commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." The key to understanding Catholic beauty and truth is ultimately conversion. We will explore this in future installments. John Mallon's personal website is http://johnmallon.net. | ||||||
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Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "As Bishops, we feel it our duty to promote the value of human life in the Church and in society, and to work in favor of all initiatives that support the family and life, such as the international moratorium on abortion," stated the Message issued by the Subcommittee for the Family and the Defense of Life, a part of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, in commemoration of the 7th Day for Life that will be held March 31, Feast of the Annunciation. The Message is entitled, "Life is always something good" and reminds the faithful that they can "never justify the death of the innocent. This would undermine the very foundations of society." Keeping this in mind, the Bishops invite the faithful to ask the Lord to open the eyes of all, especially politicians, that they may "realize [the truth] and bring an end to the great human tragedy that abortion implies for the child, the mother herself, and for society as a whole." They also ask that abortion be outlawed and that there be a true support for women provided, thus "creating a new culture where families welcome and uphold life." Towards this same goal, they also mention the possibility of adoption.
Continuing the Message, they remind Catholics of their moral obligations and duties of conscience. "No Catholic, whether it be in the public or private sphere, can ever permit any practice such as abortion, euthanasia, or the artificial production, freezing, and manipulation of human embryos." Human life is sacred and we must all respect it and the laws protect it." If any Catholic has doubts on these questions, the Bishops said, they should ask the Holy Spirit, in prayer, to illumine them."
"Life is a wonderful reality that never ceases to amaze us," the Bishops added and, "the more scientific facts are revealed, the more we can understand that man has been created in the image and likeness of God and that it is a mystery that goes beyond the boundaries of the pure bio-chemical aspects." A life should be welcomed, respected, and loved. It is everyone's duty to "welcome life as a gift that should be respected, cared for, and fostered, all the more so when it is fragile and in need of more care and attention, whether it be before birth or in its final phase." (RG) (Agenzia Fides 27/3/2008; righe 28, parole 392)
Sa
n Bernardino and Oakland dioceses host conferences focusing on contraception and NFP, 40 years after Humanae Vitae
March 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Sen. John McCain cannot win in November without the Catholic vote, which is around 25 percent of the electorate. How is he going to get it? The worst thing he could assume is that it is going to fall into his lap because Catholics will have nowhere else to go. Some people with nowhere to go simply stay home. Or they may go elsewhere, as it appears they have already been doing.
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 25, 2008
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion advocates are defending votes Barack Obama cast in the Illinois Senate against a bill that would require medical facilities to provide appropriate medical care to babies who survive botched abortions. One pro-life blogger says the arguments make it less likely Obama will be elected president.
In a recent editorial at the pro-abortion blog RH Reality Check, activist Dana Goldstein writes about a "conservative smear campaign" highlighting Obama's radical pro-abortion position.
Goldstein says the "anti-Obama strategy" is based on Obama's votes against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
That's the measure that helps babies who are victims of botched abortions or left to die without any medical treatment following intentional premature births, otherwise known as induced-birth or live-birth abortions.
Goldstein applauds Obama for voting against the bill, when a federal version passed in the U.S. Senate on a unanimous vote with the support of pro-life and pro-abortion lawmakers.
"It is to Barack Obama's credit that, as an Illinois state senator, he voted against BAIPA twice, and then, as chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee in 2003, prevented it from advancing to the floor," she writes.
She admonishes abortion advocates split between the Obama and Hillary Clinton camps to not attack each other.
Instead, she wants them to understand that pro-life advocates "plan to peel moderate and Republican support away from Obama by painting him as a heartless politician who closed his ears to the cries of 'abortion survivors.'"
But Denny Hartford, a pro-life blogger at Vital Signs, writes that Goldstein is doing the work of pro-life advocates by highlighting Obama's extremist votes that put him well out of the mainstream on abortion.
"Well, he did close his ears to the cries of abortion survivors," Hartford explains. "And, to most Americans, that's as clear and as callous an act of irresponsibility as one could find."
Hartford says "every article that delineates his record on this matter will indeed 'peel' support away from the Illinois Senator."
"In fact, with a few more defenses of Barack Obama of the kind Ms. Goldstein has written, the 'social conservatives' won't have to lift a pen," he concludes.
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Corrected Link - Catholic church in England accused of 'lying' over Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - updated link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990861/posts
Judie Brown on 'Cultural Consequences
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=27305
ACLU asks Sacramento library board to relax pornography controls on public computers
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=331a33ba-ceca-4c69-9720-41fc5391bc2c
The Logical Extension of Hillary Clinton's Relentlessly Political Life
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/03/25/logical-extension-her-relentlessly-political-life
CBS Exposes Hillary's Faulty Memory Over Bosnia Trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4
Women turning to natural methods of birth control
http://www.star-telegram.com/health/story/544002.html
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says, "I take extremely seriously concerns about the impact of biofuels on deforestation, precious habitats and on food security,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/25/biofuels.energy1
High-profile Muslim baptized by Pope asks Muslim converts to "come out"
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12129
Islamic cleric Ahmad al-Qatani stated on al-Jazeera TV a while back that some six million Muslims convert to Christianity annually
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTUwY2QyNjA0NjcwMjExMzI2ZmJiZTEzN2U1YjYyZjE=
Legislation signed Friday by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland requires clinics to offer to show pregnant women ultrasound images of their fetuses, if any are made, before carrying out abortions.
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803220366
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Here's a great billboard ad currently on display in Waco, TX, provided by pro-lifer John PIscotta:
The Susan G. Komen Foundation is the best known organization raising money for the cure. But Komen gives money to Planned Parenthood, the U.S.'s largest abortion provider, and abortion causes breast cancer.
Komen, pro-aborts, and all liberal groups also vehemently deny the abortion-breast cancer connection.
For those 2 reasons, pro-lifers do not donate to Komen.
Read more here: http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/03/abortion_breast.html
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 25 /Christian Newswire/ -- Uniting one million people in the United States to pray the Rosary for unborn babies may seem unrealistic to some people, but that is not stopping the Saint Michael the Archangel Organization from trying.
On Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 the ONE MILLION ROSARIES FOR UNBORN BABIES prayer event is scheduled to take place. Participants will pray the Rosary for the following intention: For an end to the surgical and non-surgical killing of unborn babies. All participants will be praying the Rosary within the same 60-minute time span (9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Eastern Time Zone; 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Central Time Zone; etc.)
"The primary way to stop the killing of unborn babies is not by way of politics and is not by way of education", stated Patrick Benedict, President of the Saint Michael the Archangel Organization and a parishioner at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in the Diocese of Memphis in Tennessee. "The person battling the "Culture of Death" is primarily in a spiritual battle and needs to use spiritual weaponry.
"The Rosary is a powerful spiritual weapon, and I hope there will be at least one million people in the United States taking hold of their Rosaries on May 3rd and participating in the ONE MILLION ROSARIES FOR UNBORN BABIES prayer event."
Registering for the May 3rd prayer event is easy and quick, and it can be done by going to www.SaintMichaelTheArchangelOrganization.org A person without computer access may ask for help from someone who has a computer or may receive information by writing to: Saint Michael the Archangel Organization; P. O. Box 41257; Memphis, TN 38174(A non-tax-deductible donation for postage, etc. would be appreciated.)
The Saint Michael the Archangel Organization's website has much information, including the opportunity for people to send an email to Pope Benedict XVI to ask that he: 1) re-establish, as he sees fit, the practice of having prayers offered after Masses; and, 2) that these prayers (which include The Hail Mary Prayer and the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel) be offered for the following intention: For an end to the surgical and non-surgical killing of unborn babies.
The Saint Michael the Archangel Organization coordinated the ROSARY FOR LIFE SUNDAY prayer event in 2007 and is now coordinating the ONE MILLION ROSARIES FOR UNBORN BABIES prayer event.
.- Ohio and South Dakota now join 11 other states with laws in place that require abortion clinics to offer pregnant mothers the chance to view an ultrasound of their child before they decide whether or not to abort.
Read this story here: CNA
MEDIA ADVISORY, March 25 /Christian Newswire/ -- Exploring Homeschooling, a national homeschool recruitment group, is offering a free informational meeting for California parents entitled, "How to Start, Prosper and Protect Your Homeschool in California" to help dispel the fear generated by a recent California Court of Appeal ruling regarding home education.
This meeting will take place this Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 5 pm at Irvine Community Church in Irvine, CA and all California parents thinking about homeschooling or currently doing so are encouraged to attend. It will feature Rebecca Kocsis, Support Network Director for the Christian Home Educators Association of California.
Topics presented will include:
"I know that there are many Christian parents in California who would homeschool, if only they had the right information to take the first steps in exploring this option. We are here to help them." said Mbuyi Khuzadi, Executive Director of Exploring Homeschooling.
Mbuyi and Mong-Tham Khuzadi started the group Exploring Homeschooling to help other Christian parents discover the joy of homeschooling their children in the admonition of the Lord. They are articulate advocates of stay-home motherhood and homeschooling and have experience with media interviews. Please contact them at:
Exploring Homeschooling
P.O. Box 5372
Buena Park, CA 90622-5372
714-686-3353
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Catholic church in England accused of 'lying' over Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23462726-details/Lord%20Winston%20accuses%20Catholic%20church%20of%20\\\\\\\'lying\\\\\\\'%20over %20controversial%20Embryo%20Bill/article.do
Polish PM declares boycott of Beijing Olympics Opening
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=20022&article=Polish+PM+declares+boycott+of+Beijing+Olympics+Opening
Muslim baptized a Catholic by Pope Benedict says the root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictual."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080323/wl_nm/pope_muslim_dc
Gorbachev Dispels 'Closet Christian' Rumors; Says He is Atheist
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080324/31660_Gorbachev_Dispels_%27Closet_Christian%27_Rumors%3B_Says_He_is_Atheist.htm
Legislation signed Friday by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland requires clinics to offer to show pregnant women ultrasound images of their fetuses, if any are made, before carrying out abortions.
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803220366
Abortions hurt men too
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20080315T200000-0500_133577_OBS_ABORTIONS_HURT_MEN_TOO.asp
"Politically Correct Eugenics" by Wesley J. Smith
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/politically-correct-eugenics.html
Protecting Black Life - Life Issues Institute video
http://www.protectingblacklife.org/video/episode_213_video.htm
Therapeutic Cloning Proof of Principle in Mice by Wesley J. Smith
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/therapeutic-cloning-proof-of-principle.html
The Duty to Die: Scouting the Next Pro-Life Battlefield
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3150&Itemid=48
When Is Sedation Really Euthanasia?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1724911,00.html
Judge dismisses attempt by California to invalidate federal law prohibiting state discrimination against pro-life doctors and hospitals
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=6abe9dfa-8c9a-4021-9f3e-558f042f3233
Dutch Prove that the Culture of Death is Like Heroin
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/dutch-continue-their-love-affair-with.html
Republican Lawmaker Proposes Amendment to Defund Planned Parenthood
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200803/CUL20080318a.html
Problems force Planned Parenthood to shut programs in Broward, Palm Beach
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpplanned0320pnmar20,0,4272796.story
Three College Papers Say No to Anti-Abortion Group's Ad
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003727114
South Dakota Shows Ultrasounds to Women before Abortions
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000006898.cfm
Abortionist Tiller Skates in Hit and Run Case
http://christiannewswire.com/news/899616048.html
Booth Gardner's Disengenuous Fundraising Letter for Assisted Suicide
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/booth-gardners-disengenuous-fundraising.html
McCain's pastor a sharp contrast to Obama's
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/mccains.pastor.a.sharp.contrast.to.obamas/17481.htm
"Who Is John McCain?"
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2339
Huckabee: 'Cut Some Slack' for Obama's Pastor
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000006895.cfm
Judgment, character and Barack Obama
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTU2N2ViMGFkN2VmMzdmMTk1YzVlMDc0NzUyODQyMmQ
Gordon Brown is turning into the most anti-Catholic Prime Minister of modern times.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/mar08/anticatholicgovernment.htm
Church has proved a serious irritant to Gordon Brown.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/24/nembryo324.xml
When is the Church going to shed the paper tiger image and take off the gloves? And when will it stop trying to placate the politically correct police?
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19412468&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8
HuffPost Mocks Catholics For Attending 'Church' of 'Hitler Youth'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/03/24/huffpost-mocks-catholics-attending-church-hitler-youth
Special "Mass for Democrats" to be celebrated at San Jose diocesan cathedral
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=1cf1941d-4a1f-4e49-8ad7-77f9a064d6f2
Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life - GEORGE WEIGEL
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0113.htm
Jesuit University President Attacks George Weigel
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3115&Itemid=48
Traditional families on the rebound in U.S. 62 percent of the US's 73 million children live with both biological parents. The New York Times reports that the statistics represent a major trend slowdown between 2004 and a previous survey in 1990 versus a
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=72389
Recent political scandals reflect dearth of family values, says rabbi
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=72565
Saudi Arabia: No churches unless prophet Mohammed recognised as a prophet, says expert
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1993520344
Nothing scares terrorists more than the prospect of peace - bin Laden's latest salvo against the Vatican is wholly unwarranted. So why is he trying to drum up hatred against the pope?
http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1407
Bin Laden has every reason to be afraid of Pope Benedict
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339950,00.html
Gold Medal in Tyranny - A look at China's authoritarianism.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/906xwquk.asp
China doesn't deserve to host Olympics
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=846a7ea8-cf87-4175-aea1-fe7c22a18598
Beijing attacks the pope, who receives the gratitude of the Tibetan government in exile
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11818&size=A
Perhaps the climate change models are wrong
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=394939
It's no mystery why many environmentalists are so obstinate. They are strapped into "an ideological straitjacket," immobilized by "a deep suspicion of big business and big industry that's a residue of the leftism of the original environmental movem
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=cfc6a80c-bab9-4c68-935c-ed5d23e3165c
Global Warming Stopped a Decade Ago Says Austalian Biologist
Carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. As this becomes more publicly understood, a great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
Anything that grows 'can convert into oil' - Company finds natural solution that turns plants into gasoline
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59402
Canada orders ministry by Christians shut down
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59600
Scrutinizing Canada's human rights machine - Commissions' challenger has unlikely allies
http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=391873
Warman vs Free Dominion -- socialist revolution
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=97172
March 25 CHRC Hearing Open to the Public
http://www.steynonline.com/images/stories/books/2008_chrt_8_t1073.pdf
"One estimate pegged the American gay and lesbian market at $660 billion (U.S.) last year." And here we thought this was an oppressed class of people ...
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/349252
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6172
Milwaukee newspaper promotes homo-sex play on Good Friday
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59575
Woman who had surgery and drugs to gain male characteristics now claims to be pregnant
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=94b1f16c-cfb0-4e73-90ae-b346e4174e78
'Gay' Activist Would Risk Lives to Push Political Agenda
http://christiannewswire.com/news/694626045.html
Ex-Porn Star Leaves Sex Industry, Joins Church Staff
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080318/31558_Ex-Porn_Star_Leaves_Sex_Industry,_Joins_Church_Staff.htm
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading African-American pro-life advocate says Barack Obama and other black leaders must confront the phenomenon of black women having abortions at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts. Instead of advocating more abortions, the leader says Obama and others should promote alternatives.
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