Monday, June 3, 2013

[ video ] Pope Francis meets with sick children and their families












                                             

  




Pope Francis meets with sick children and their families

Pope Francis was visited by a group of young cancer patients who are being treated at Rome's Agostino Gemelli hospital. They all prayed together, and a young girl read the Pope a very moving letter.











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Children hospitalized with respiratory crisis for having ingested marijuana

AMERICA/COLORADO -
Denver (Agenzia Fides) - The consumption of marijuana is legal in 18 States and in Washington. In Colorado baked food, candies and fizzy drinks containing this so-called light drug, is sold to relieve pain, for example, for people who suffer from cancer, HIV and other diseases. In 2012, Colorado and the State of Washington voted in favor of the legalization of small doses for painkiller use.


Following the complaints of some children who were seriously ill after swallowing marijuana, a group of experts for the Treatment of Poisoning and Drugs Centre of Rocky Mountain in Denver, reviewed 1,400 records of first aid carried out on some young children for accidental ingestion between 2005 and 2011 in the pediatric hospital in Colorado. What was highlighted was the fact that in October 2009, none of the 790 children with symptoms of accidental poisoning had traces of marijuana in urine. In 2009, following the legalization of the drug for medical use, 14 of the 588 children a ssisted had swallowed marijuana. The children were aged between 8 months and 12 years of age. Eight were hospitalized. The most common symptom was lack of strength, even if some arrived with breathing difficulties. Experts say they are concerned about the level of sedation that this drug causes in young children, making them feel sleepy and causing breathing problems. In children, in fact marijuana causes problems to the central nervous system, brain and respiratory system. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 03/06/2013)
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Heroic News: “'I grew up pro life, but then I got pregnant'” plus 3 more

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Posted: 02 Jun 2013 05:24 AM PDT
The counselor at Planned Parenthood had told me that some initial sadness after my abortion would be normal, but after a couple days, if I was still feeling depressed, that wouldn’t be normal, and I should seek help. How wrong she was. Much of those days before and after my abortion are a blur of heartbreak and tears.
Posted: 02 Jun 2013 05:15 AM PDT
“There are an estimated 37 million Chinese men who will never marry because their future wives were terminated before they were born,” said Littlejohn. “This gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring nations as well.”
Posted: 02 Jun 2013 12:39 AM PDT
A 42-year-old UK woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a baby conceived using a pioneering IVF time-lapse photography technique to pick the best embryo, resulting in the typical destruction of those children deemed 'less fit' to survive.
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:14 AM PDT
After months of fierce on-the-ground campaigning and a last-minute urging from President Obama, a measure that would have made Illinois the 13th state to allow same-sex couples to 'marry' fell short Friday.
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Judie Brown: "Catholic church succumbed to contraceptive mandates years ago"


 

Judie Brown

Judie Brown
June 2, 2013

Public opinion and the whims of the people cannot and should not dictate what the clergy of the Church will allow or advocate. Our Church was founded on the truths taught by Christ and from these truths we should never waver. When we see priests, bishops, archbishops, or cardinals allowing modern-day beliefs to come before Church teachings, we see very clearly that there is a problem in leadership. And if our leaders seem confused, where does that leave the people?

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CMMB: Your Weekly Reflection in Prayer 6/2/2013

Weekly Prayer Reflection for Summer
 
“Taking the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven, He said the blessing, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. They all ate and were satisfied.”

Luke 9:16-17 June 2, 2013
Corpus Christi – the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Dear Friends, 
If you pass a Catholic church in the month of May, you may see children dressed up in white dresses or in black or white suits. They are making their First Communion – a very special Sacrament for Catholics. At Holy Mass they receive Jesus, the Bread of life, the Bread that comes from heaven for the first time. The Gospel for the feast looks back to when Jesus blessed, broke, and multiplied the loaves and fish. But note how the disciples played their part. They were the ones to distribute the bread and fish to satisfy the hunger of the crowd.
No need to remind us of the many in our world, including millions of children, who go to bed hungry. As we recall the great gift of Jesus in the sacrament of Communion, as we recall how the disciples of Jesus shared the bread and fish, we might also be reminded of our own obligation to reach out and share bread with others.
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men and women throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them, through our hands, this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.
Amen

Rev. Peter Schineller, S.J., CMMB Board of Directors 


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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Heroic News: “Archdiocese NYC: Contraception charges inaccurate” plus 3 more

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Posted: 01 Jun 2013 06:44 AM PDT
Responding to media reports, the Archdiocese of New York said that its payments to a labor union fund that goes towards insurance coverage of contraception and abortion are involuntary and do not excuse the federal contraception mandate.
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 06:40 AM PDT
Tell me who you hang out with and I’ll tell you who you are. Anna Maria Chávez, CEO of Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA), offers this pithy saying as her favorite quote. In order to figure out who the Girl Scouts are, I suppose we must follow Ms. Chávez’ logic and look at the organizations that GSUSA associates with.
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 06:29 AM PDT
Politicians in the Netherlands are pushing the organisation which represents Dutch doctors to overcome its misgivings over euthanasia for patients with dementia.


Posted: 01 Jun 2013 05:33 AM PDT
On Friday, the Maine House overwhelmingly rejected a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, by a vote of 95-43.
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Catholic Politicians Who Support Abortion Should Resign

Catholic Politicians Who Support Abortion Are Pushing Themselves Out Of The Church!

By: Gary O’ Sullivan -


A senior Vatican official has said that Catholic politicians should resign rather than be part of a Government move to legalize abortion.
As Taoiseach Enda Kenny, a self-described practicing Catholic, pushes ahead with plans to legalize abortion before the summer, a senior Vatican official told The Irish Catholic that Catholic politicians in these circumstances should quit rather than legislate for abortion.
Asked about the current situation in Ireland Msgr Jacques Suaudeau, scientific director of the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican said: “If the Prime Minister as a Catholic, doesn’t want to impose his belief and the time has come for a more moderate line on abortion, then he resigns.
“If you are faithful to your conviction, then you have to get out,” he said.
He also said that Catholic politicians who support abortion are pushing themselves out of the Church.
Referring to Catholics in political life, he said: “if a politician is being forced to be a formal co-operator with abortion, you leave the party, you get out.”
He warned that politicians cannot hide behind a claim that they are just doing their duty. He said many had forgotten the Nuremberg Defence, a reference to Nazi officers who said they were simply following orders. “If an act is evil and you receive an order to do it then you cannot do it.”
“Sometimes people forget Nuremberg. You cannot cover yourself with the cover of party discipline,” Msgr Suaudeau said.
“Generally, if you are well-known and your party is proposing something that goes against your conscience you need to make it known, you need to speak. Maybe they will ask you to abstain, sometimes people understand that you have an objection of conscience’’ he added.
He warned that “Catholic politicians cannot live under two houses when it comes to abortion. You have to take a decision but not many do”.
On the issue of excommunication for pro-abortion Catholic politicians, Msgr Suaudeau said that the issue should be dealt with in private by senior Churchmen.
Bishops, he said, have to signify to politicians in private the wrong headedness of their actions. He added that the Vatican does not like excommunication or talking about it publicly and does this for the sake of the local Church.
However, he added, if you are agreeing to abortion and pushing it you are pushing yourself out of the Church. But you can change and come back.
Taken from the Irish Catholic
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