A pediatric hospital in Rome run by the Catholic Church has entered an agreement with the Italian government to help improve medical care available to children in much of Latin America.
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- Mag's Photo Spread Portrays Female SuicidesWhat is the deal with our cultural death fetish? Vice Magazine's "Women in Fiction" issue has a photo spread portraying women authors offing themselves like this one below which has a model re-enacting the suicide of Sylvia Plath.
- The Messianic SecretJesus asks a simple question, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” (Luke 9:18). All volunteer an answer, because describing other people’s opinions requires no personal commitment whatsoever. But then Jesus asks them a tougher question: “Who do YOU say that I am?” Answering this one entails sticking your neck out a bit. The [...]
- Let this give us hope! Ireland, brick by ...Well, so it's not exactly in the mold of St. Gerard or Blessed Francis Seelos. But, it'll certainly raise up a new generation of Church Militant and force open those shuttered Irish seminaries, right? One of the most disturbing parts of this is that the Redemptorist rector of the church chastised the adults who were, God willing, mortified at what […]
- Pro-Life Groups Applaud House for Passing Ban on Abortions After 20-WeeksDozens of pro-life groups lobbied for the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and the House approved the bill Tuesday afternoon, with a 32-vote margin. Several pro-life groups have already issued statements within the first hour following passage of the bill. Below is a collection of some of the statements LifeNews has received. National Right […]
- A Political Scientist Warns of the Gathering Storm: Same-Sex Marriage Will Threaten Religious LibertyAt Public Discourse today, Matthew Franck, a political scientist (full disclosure: also a friend of mine), argues that the advance of same-sex marriage will likely prove incompatible with traditional conceptions of religious liberty. He begins with an interesting, important, but little noted point: namely, that many “conscience exemptions” given by states i […]
- Obama threatens veto as fetal pain bill passes HouseWashington D.C., Jun 18, 2013 / 05:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite passing the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy faces an uncertain future as President Obama's administration has suggested that he will veto it. “(S)cience is on our side,” Representative Marsha Blackburn, (R- Tenn.) told MSNBC in an i […]
- House Passes Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions After 20 WeeksThe House of Representatives today approved a that bans abortions from after 20-weeks of pregnancy up to the day of birth. The vote for the bill broke down on mostly partisan lines with Republicans supporting the ban on late-term abortions and Democrats opposing it. The House approved the bill on a 228-196 vote with 7 Democrats voting for the bill and 6 Repu […]
- Pope: False ideas of freedom spawn threats to lifeIdeologies and practices that destroy human life arise from false ideas of freedom without God, Pope Francis told a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, including thousands of pro-life activists from around the world. “Whenever we want to assert ourselves, when we become wrapped up in our own selfishness and put ourselves in the place of God, we end up spawning deat […]
- Arguments for Abortion and Slavery Look Very SimilarWashington, DC (LiveActionNews) – I am reading through Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and tonight I was struck by how closely the cultural debate concerning slavery, preserved in this novel, mirrors the modern abortion debate in America. Consider the following exchange from Chapter 12. Several white passengers are traveling on a ri […]
- Construction begins on new home for elderly in ThailandKorat, Thailand, Jun 18, 2013 / 04:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A new home for the elderly in Thailand will seek to restore respect for senior citizens and to fight the escalating problems of elderly abandonment and suicide in the country. Bishop Joseph Chusak Sirisut of Nakhon Ratchasima told CNA that there is an absence of “social care centers for the elders in […]
