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Mother of Child With Down Syndrome: Don’t Define My Daughter With A List

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 9:03 am

In a beautiful article in The Huffington Post, Deanna Smith describes how her daughter, who has Down syndrome, can’t be defined by a “list” of abnormalities. Smith writes, “When...

Abortion Activist: “Yes Babies in the Womb are Human Being, But So What”

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:59 am

In 2013, pro-abortion writer, Mary Elizabeth Williams penned an article titled, “So What if Abortion Ends Life?” Honestly, her article is probably the most outrageous piece of...

A Lovely Sermon on the Espousal of Our Lady and St. Joseph, by Cardinal Burke

Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 am

New Liturgical Movement has it here. Really, it is so refreshing to hear Catholic content in a Catholic sermon by a Catholic prelate these days. Yes?

South Korea Pastor’s “Drop Box” Saves Abandoned Babies From Infanticide

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:57 am

On March 3rd, The Drop Box Heart comes to U.S. theaters and shares the story of Jong-rak Lee, a pastor who decided to make it his mission to save abandoned babies left on the...

Remembering When Mother Teresa Told Me: “We Must Be the Voice of Those Who Have None”

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:55 am

“We must be the voice of those who have none.” Those were the words Mother Teresa spoke to me in 1994 in her living room in Calcutta, India when I thanked her for making an...

These People All Have One Shocking Thing in Common: They Survived Abortion

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:53 am

Melissa Payne—pregnant with her second child—was traveling with her family when her water broke. Her baby girl was just under nineteen weeks old—far too young to survive outside...

Obama Threatens to Veto Pro-Life Bill to Completely Ban Taxpayer Funding of Abortions

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:51 am

Yesterday, the House passed legislation that will put in place a complete ban on taxpayer funding of abortions that ensures abortions are not directly funded in any federal...

Pro-Life Leaders Not Giving Up On 20-Week Abortion Ban: It Will Definitely Get a Vote

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:41 am

Top pro-life members of Congress and leading pro-life organizations are united in the face of opposition from some pro-life Republican members of Congress to the Pain-Capable...

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?

CatholicMom.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:30 am

I try my hardest not to listen to the 11:00 News. Instead I listen to the three-minute reports on the radio; they have less time to recount the gruesome details of all the...

Christian Man to Pregnant Girlfriend: Convert to My Religion or Have an Abortion

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:20 am

A Christian man got his girlfriend pregnant and urged her to have an abortion. He said that he would marry her and let her have the baby only if she would convert to Christianity...

Happy Name Day, Card. Burke!

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:17 am

In the traditional Roman calendar, today is the Feast of St. Raymond of Penfort. As such, today is the onomastico, or Name Day, of His Eminence Raymond Leo Card. Burke....

South Carolina Committee Passes Pro-Life Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:10 am

On Thursday, January 22, 2015, the 42nd anniversary of the lethal Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, a S.C. House panel voted to create a new, compelling state interest in...

Everyone Knows Abortion Hurts Women and Children, But You Probably Don’t Think About These People

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:01 am

Not long ago I was reading an e-mail (which I do a lot) when a sentence reminded me of something I hadn’t given sufficient thought to for a long time: There are many, many hurting...

Culture war of cakes: Associated Press story on gay rights, religious freedom less than perfect

GetReligion - Jan 23, 2015 at 8:00 am

There's a new twist on the ongoing story of Colorado bakers caught in the middle of the culture war. The Associated Press boils down the latest development this way: DENVER (AP...

Pope Francis: “God forgives everything”

The Deacon's Bench - Jan 23, 2015 at 7:53 am

“There is no sin which He won’t pardon. He forgives everything. ‘But father, I don’t go to confession because I have committed so many really bad sins, so many that I can’t be...

34 Women Have Died From Abortions in the Last Three Years in India

LifeNews.com - Jan 23, 2015 at 7:47 am

According to an information report from Bangalore Medical College (BMC), 34 women have died from abortions in India in the last three years. Specifically, the botched abortions...

The Call to Be United With God and One Another

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 23, 2015 at 7:46 am

Roman Rite - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - January 25, 2015 Jon 3,1-5.10; Ps 25; 1 Cor 7.29 to 31; 1.14 to 20 Mk[1]. Ambrosian Rite - Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and...

The wisdom of parents must guide children in the digital world

News.va - Jan 23, 2015 at 7:44 am

Vatican City, 23 January 2015 (VIS) – A press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office this morning in which Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical...

To the Tribunal of the Roman Rota: do not ensnare salvation in the constraints of legalism