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388 days ago
From the meditation for November 4th in "Benedictus: Day by Day with Pope Benedict XVI": The manna in the desert was to show that man can live only in dependence on God. Man is to learn to live by God, for then he really lives, then he has eternal life, for God is eternal. Anyone who lives with him and in dependence on him is already in that real life which reaches out beyond death. Living in dependence on God means not being one's own master, not wanting to take charge of the world oneself; it means saying good-bye to the dream of autonomy and of being one's own boss , recognizing that we cannot do it on our own and learning to accept our life day by day from his hands, without anxiety and full of confidence . The election results we just learned have some of us disappointed, some of us depressed, and some of us filled with anxiety. And fairly so - much of what we have preached, written, worked, and debated about, not just for the past year or so, but for the ...
449 days ago
40 Days For Life (September 24 – November 2) “This kind does not come out, except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:21) Wednesday, September 24 th , starts the 40 Days for Life, a national campaign of prayer and fasting to end abortion in America. The aim of this campaign is to draw attention to the evil of abortion and other life issues (such as embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, and cloning). The timing of this Fall’s campaign is especially critical: it ends on November 2 nd , All Souls Day, which is also the Sunday before Election Day. The end date is significant, not as an attempt to promote one political party over another, but to draw attention to the fact that the right to life is foundational to all other rights. As Pope Benedict XVI said, “life is the first good received from God and is fundamental to all others.” The Holy Father’s words should have special importance to a country ...
684 days ago
With this election cycle's early primary/caucus season, something is getting lost in the jumble. We have already had the Iowa caucus (1/3/08), the Wyoming Republican caucus (1/5/08), and, last Tuesday, the New Hampshire primary (1/8/08). Coming up this Tuesday, Jan 15th, there is the Michigan primary. Saturday, Jan 19th is the South Carolina primary & the Nevada caucus. Tuesday, Jan 29th is the Florida (primary), and Feb 5 is "Super Tuesday", when 22 states will hold their primaries or caucuses. Looking at the above dates, we see a lot of Tuesday voting going on. However, there is a big gap between the S.C./Nevada vote and the Florida vote. 10 days is the biggest gap in the entire nomination season. There is a reason for this gap - next Tuesday is the "Prayer & Fasting Primary". Jan. 22 is a National Day of prayer and fasting, as called for by the American bishops, because it is the date of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in this ...
821 days ago
The Houston Chronicle has an article about Chinese victims of forced abortions fighting back. QIAN'AN, China — Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father. But the Peking duck and liquor weren't enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang's wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby was killed by injection while still inside her. "Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach," says Jin Yani, a shy, petite woman with a long ponytail. "It was very painful. ... It was all very rough." Some 30 years after China decreed a general limit of one child per family, resentment still brews over the state's regular and sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters. Not only are many second pregnancies aborted, but even to have one's ...
823 days ago
Again, I will refer you to G.K. Chesterton's eerily prescient Eugenics and Other Evils. If you honestly think abortion is a victimless process, read on. Botched abortion shocks Italy August 27, 2007 Rome - A botched abortion in which a healthy twin foetus was terminated instead of its sibling with Down syndrome has reignited the abortion debate in Italy and raised allegations of eugenics. "The time has come to re-examine the abortion law" that dates back to 1978, wrote leftist Senator Paola Binetti, who is close to the Vatican, in the Corriere della Sera newspaper. "What happened in this hospital was not a medical abortion but an abortion done for the purposes of eugenics," she said, referring to the belief that the human species can be improved through selective reproduction. The abortion was performed on a 38-year-old woman in Milan in June, but news of its outcome has only recently become public. Doctors blamed the mistake on ...
