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Every Single Bishop Has Condemned the Obama/HHS Mandate! Our Bishops stand up! Obama Responds to Belmont Abbey Lawsuit The Obama administration had their first opportunity to explain to the court and the country why the mandate is not illegal and unconstitutional, and it seems like an epic fail . How Planned Parenthood hooks kids on sex (WARNING: graphic material) Academics Call For Killing People To Harvest Their Organs The authors argue that death and total disability are morally indistinguishable The Church allows married couples to practice periodic continence only for serious reasons What are they? |
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Girls as young as 13(in England) have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing. It could never happen here. We hope. Pa. College Machine Dispenses 'Morning-After' Pill But you still need a prescription for antibiotics . Fr. Barron comments on the HHS Contraception Mandate One of the Church's best messengers explains why it's wrong. First private, door-to-door euthanasia service opens in Netherlands Death delivered to your door. Military orders gag on Catholic chaplains. Chaplains are being forbidden from reading the letter from the bishops protesting the HHS mandate. If they do, they are considered seditious |
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Catholic Bishops Vow to Fight Coercive HHS Mandate Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, sharply criticized the decision by the Obama administration in which it "ordered almost every employer and insurer in the country to provide sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, in their health plans....Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience. This shouldn't happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights." Another Planned Parenthood manager comes over to pro-life A longtime Storm Lake clinic manager for Planned Parenthood has switched sides, and she is speaking out against her former employer’s use of an electronic system to dispense abortion pills throughout the state. Why I rejected Plan B after my disabled daughter was raped ...The nurse told me the antibiotics she’d administered, that we’d need to wait some time for HIV testing, and then handed me a box - Plan B, and told me we had 24 hours to use it. So there it was. The whole moral conundrum of abortion in a little green box in my hand. How Lila Rose Became Pro-Life … and Catholic At 9 years old, Lila Rose saw an image of an aborted baby in a book at her home. She said it struck her to the heart, and she asked, How could anybody do this to a baby? Komen appears to have caved under pro-abort pressure The latest on the story from LifeNews.com |
Innocent No More
An Arizona college student who stopped in at her workplace wearing a pro-life t-shirt quit her job rather than obey a supervisor who ordered her to turn the “Pray to End Abortion” shirt inside out. Renise Rodriguez, a 21-year-old religious studies major at the University of Arizona, worked as a Girl Experience Associate for the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona in Tucson. When she went to her office on Jan. 3 during her off-duty hours to prepare materials for a meeting, she was told twice by a supervisor that if she planned to stay in the office, or attend a troop meeting, she would have to turn her shirt inside out.
“I started to get emotional because of the way I was treated so I left without preparing for the meeting and told my co-worker that she would have to get the stuff together,” Miss Rodriguez said. “As I was driving out, I called a friend crying and told her the story. I was so shocked at the way I was treated. After contemplating it for the rest of that day, I decided to write my letter of resignation.” Her letter did not specify her reason for resigning, but she plans to discuss it with another supervisor when she does her formal exit interview.
“It is the courage and conviction of young people like Renise that gives us hope that we are closer than ever to winning this battle and bringing an end to child killing in America,” said Bryan Kemper, Director of Youth Outreach for Priests for Life. “Young heroes like Renise prove this generation is a pro-life generation.”
source:LifeSiteNews.comThe Christmas Story from St Paul's on Vimeo.
A New Zealand Nativity
From Planned Parenthood to Catholicism - a conversion story
The room in the back of the clinic was quiet but Catherine’s mind was screaming. There was a baby in a jar. Arms. Leg. Fingers! There was a baby in a jar! She knew she had to get out of there. Fast. She couldn’t look at it one moment longer.
It?
Catherine Adair had spent the previous year working at Planned Parenthood convincing women that despite what they thought, that wasn’t a baby growing in their womb. It was a…an…it. And it required a “procedure” as she called it back then.
She’d spent the previous year accepting payment for abortions and “counseling” young women in the bright office and working as a medical assistant for first trimester abortions.
But one day in 1997 everything changed. She was asked to clean up the room from a second-trimester abortion. She had never been in that room before, and even though she had “counseled” other women about the procedure, she had no idea what it really entailed.
Read her story here
A Common Sleeping Pill May Bring Hope to Long-Term Coma Patients
The well known sleeping pill, Ambien, and its generic twin, zolpidem, have been shown , in some cases, to help patients in 'persistent vegetative state'.
According to the New York Times, 'A growing body of case reports suggests that the popular sleep aid can have a profound — and paradoxical — effect on patients like Chris. Rather than put them to sleep, both Ambien and its generic twin, zolpidem, appear to awaken at least some of them. The early reports were so pronounced that until recently, doctors had a hard time believing them. Only now, more than a decade after the initial discovery, are they taking a closer look.
'This year, scientists at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and at the University of Pennsylvania, both in the Philadelphia area, began the first large-scale clinical study of zolpidem as a treatment for disorders of consciousness. (Amantadine, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease, and the anti-anxiety medication Ativan also show promise in increasing awareness in minimally conscious patients.) So far, the evidence suggests that less than 10 percent of brain-injured patients will experience the drug’s paradoxical effects, and that among those, only a few will respond as profoundly as Viljoen did. For families like the Coxes, such odds provide a tortured kind of hope. For doctors, they bring questions. Why does a sleeping pill induce awareness in some patients but not others? And what can these bizarre awakenings tell us about the brain’s ability to heal?
Read the full story here
Yet Another Planned Parenthood manager becomes pro-life!
Sue Thayer, former Planned Parenthood manager from Storm Lake, Iowa, spoke out publicly about her 17 years of working inside Planned Parenthood and witnessing -- first hand -- how the organization was aggressively striving to INCREASE their abortion numbers.
As someone who had believed the lie that Planned Parenthood was all about "preventing abortions," Sue voiced her concerns about this within Planned Parenthood ... and they promptly fired her.
After a time of healing from her experiences, Sue took a leap of faith this fall ...... and LED the 40 Days for Life campaign ... ... outside the Planned Parenthood center she used to manage!
Listen to her tell her story here
Abortion Mill to be replaced by a Pregnancy Resource Center!
Family Planning Medical Clinic in La Puente, California, recently closed its doors for good after the 40 Days for Life campaign's encouraged people to pray in front of the clinic.
Norma Murakami, executive director of A Women's Care Center in Chino Hills, tells OneNewsNow that the clinic will be transformed into a pregnancy resource center for which she is currently negotiating a lease.
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The ignorance displayed in the opening interviews is terrifying. Those who ignore history...
2 More Abortion Mills Close
Since the last 40 Days for Life campaign ended, two more abortion centers where 40 Days for Life vigils have been conducted have shut their doors and CLOSED!
In PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, volunteers arriving to pray at the abortion center found a sheriff's notice on the front door of the facility. Legal proceedings had begun against the abortion business, and a judge ordered the center CLOSED.
In FOREST GROVE, OREGON, the local 40 Days for Life team confirmed that the owner of the abortion center had CLOSED this facility -- and one of his other locations as well. Volunteers told me the signs are down, the building is empty -- and a phone call confirmed the permanent closure.
This makes SIXTEEN abortion centers where 40 Days for Life vigils have occurred that have SHUT DOWN.
Keep Praying!
source: 40daysforlife.comFormer Planned Parenthood Director Converts to Pro-Life
Sherman, Texas Planned Parenthood Clinic director Ramona Trevino credits her conversion to pro-lifers praying outside her clinic.Prayer changes hearts. Keep praying!
No, this is not a joke:
Dozens of pro-life groups are calling on pro-life Americans to boycott PepsiCo because it has contracted with a company that uses fetal cells from babies victimized by abortions to test and produce artificial flavor enhancers.
LifeNews.com reported on the controversy in March when information came to light showing biotech company Senomyx was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions. Senomyx ignored a letter from the pro-life group Children of God for Life, which complained about its practices.
'The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products,' the Senomyx web site says. 'Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.'
Debi Vinnedge, of the pro-life group, explained, 'What they don’t tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors. They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.'
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A Light Shines In The Darkness
Amid the increasing secularization of Europe, the government of Hungary has written and approved a new constitution that acknowledges God and enshrines the right to life! Here is the beginning:
We, the members of the Hungary Nation, assert our responsibility to say the following for all Hungary at the beginning of the millennium:
We are proud of the fact that our King Stephen, the Saintly Patron of the Hungarian State for a thousand years had built a secure foundation and placed our Fatherland in the line of Christian Europe.
We are proud of our forebears, who persisted for that, who have fought for the freedom and independence of our Land.
We are proud of the great spiritual accomplishments of the Hungarian people.
We are proud that our people had defended Europe for a thousand years and whose common values were enriched by their talents and enriched its industry.
We recognize the role of Christianity in the persistence of the Nation.
Concerning the unborn, it goes on to say The value of human life is unfathomable. Every person has the right to life and human value; the life of the foetus is protected from conception to birth.
source: The Occidental ObserverA Christian organization called Samaritan Ministries is starting an exciting new project. The Morning Center is a FREE maternity hospital. In their own words:
'For too many women facing a life-changing pregnancy, after Christian churches and ministries urge her not to abort the life that is within them, the only financial “help” they receive is a recommendation to apply for a government program.
It is time for the Body of Christ to offer loving, quality maternity care in Jesus’ Name to anyone who needs it—-free of charge.
The Morning Center is the next step in the pro-life movement. Together, we can bring a new day in maternity care and lavish the love of Christ on women and unborn children who desperately need it. We plan to establish our first Morning Center in a major city during the coming 18 months. Will you join us in this groundbreaking effort?
We want to change health care with The Morning Center, a full-service, unashamedly Christian maternity hospital.'
An interesting idea, and worth investigating. Visit their website at http://morningcenter.org
40 Days For Life is a nationwide event of prayer and fasting for the end of abortion. The next 40 Days will take place this Lent, between March 9th and April 17th. In Northeast Philly, the location will be in front of Planned Parenthood NE, Comly Rd. & the Blvd., between 8am and 8 pm every day. The day for Maternity BVM Parish is Wednesday March 30th. All are encouraged, however, to show up and pray at any time on any day you can.
In the first 3 quarters of 2010, Planned Parenthood NE (2751 Comly Road) killed over 2600 children by abortion. Saturday mornings are their busiest time. Please stand with us as we peacefully pray the Rosary outside their abortuary every Saturday from 7 to 8 am.
Monday, January 24th
Washington DC
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leaving St Dominic (8504 Frankford Ave.) at 8:30 am, returning 8:30 pm. cost: $30 adults, $25 students contact: Carole Hall 215-637-3160 |
Downtown:Sat. Jan 15 - 7 am Mass and Exposition at St. John the Evangelist (13th below Market) , followed by Rosary procession to an abortion center, returning for benediction.
Sat. Jan 22 - Prayer vigil at Phila. Women's Center, 8th & Cherry, from 7:30 am till 9, followed by a Mass at 9:30 at St. John The Evangelist (13th below Market).
National Day of Prayer and Penance
In February 2002, the Catholic Church established that throughout the United States, January 22nd would be observed as a day of prayer and penance for the offenses to human dignity caused by abortion [General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no 373]: In all the dioceses of the United States of America, January 22 (or January 23, when January 22 falls on a Sunday) shall be observed as a particular day of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion, and of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life. The Mass 'For Peace and Justice' (no. 22 of the 'Masses for Various Needs') should be celebrated with violet vestments as an appropriate liturgical observance for this day.
Father Otto led the memorial service for the victims of abortion on Oct. 3, 2010
The 2011 Maarch For Life will be held on Monday Jan. 24th
Join Justin Cardinal Rigali, main celebrant and homilist, for Mass to be held at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC at 10:00 a.m. before the March for Life.
40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion in America.
The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion in America.
This year's campaign runs from Sept. 22 to Oct. 31. To learn more, go to 40 Days for Life
The days for Maternity BVM are Thursday, Oct. 7th and Thursday, Oct. 21st, from 9am to 4pm