Both regular religious worship and intact nuclear heterosexual families correlate with dozens of positive outcomes, according to a multitude of reliable studies.
This is a lesson of the dangers of the growing 'quality of life' ethic in medicine and centralized, bureaucratic control over the delivery of health care, coming our way with Obamacare.
Governments, UN agencies and family planning groups which are spending millions of dollars to distribute Depo-Provera in developing countries may ignore the FDA’s warnings and take cover from the WHO’s claims about its safety.
There is something so ghoulish, so hideous, and so cannibalistic about this panel of calm, well-spoken women discussing how to deal with the piles and piles of irretrievably shredded infants.
Sadly, the Christian family finds itself not only being threatened by the wiles of the Culture of Death but wondering if the teaching of the Church remains secure.
One excerpt: NY Times' Douthat - Who won the Synod? …nobody won, because really everybody won. ...conservatives won what was probably the closest thing to victory that they could have hoped for
Abortions have been suspended in the northeast Wisconsin town, because its business owners are having trouble finding someone to abort patient's children in the womb.
If a baby is not a human being whose rights are to be respected, a woman can use any reason to justify her abortion, including the claim that the baby is better off dead.
Collins was one of a dozen or so Synod fathers who came under intense criticism after signing a letter to Pope Francis expressing concern over the Synod's direction.
Consumed with the thought that she could not dispose of the remains, abortionist Renee Chelian said she was 'ready to drive to upper Michigan and have a bonfire.'
The Synod appears to have opened a 'crack' to open up a possible path for Kasper's proposal. And the German bishops' small group was the decisive factor in making it happen.
Planned Parenthood’s unwillingness to abide by FDA guidelines for the abortion pill makes it clear that the organization cares little for the safety of the women who seek help from them.
A leading LGBT website is bashing Kentucky clerks for wanting to differentiate between same-sex and opposite-sex couples when issuing marriage licenses.
The progressives first priority on homosexuality requires stepping away from clarity and toward ambiguity on the sin of homosexuality. That goal is achieved in the Relazione Finale.
Austen Ivereigh of the Washington Post summed up that the final result of the Synod 'appears to open up space for conscience. Both sides can be happy.' That should be concerning to everyone.
'An eyeball just fell down into my lap and that’s gross [laughter], and I say to myself, ‘This abortion is going well; it’s going safely.'' [laughter and applause]
Surrogacy, exploits (mostly) poor and destitute women–sometimes at a terrible toll to physical and/or emotional health, and occasionally, at the cost of their lives.
In a recent 7 October report for the German newspaper Die Zeit, he helpfully recounts the history of the Sankt Gallen Group and shows how one of their main goals – regionalism and a decentralization of the Church – is soon likely to be attained at the current Synod – at least in some incipient form.
With an “end to judging” and “love to all people,” Bishop Van Looy declared on Friday’s press conference that the synod “could be the beginning of a new Church.”
Voice of the Family: “There’s a crisis of trust regarding the family between faithful lay Catholics and those in authority at the highest levels of the Church – and only the Pope can restore that trust”.
Westboro Baptists resort to personal attacks, while a Mormon higher-up claims that religious freedom is no excuse not to 'acknowledge the validity of constitutional laws.'
House Speaker John Boehner has announced the eight Republicans who will serve on the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Select Investigative Panel looking into Planned Parenthood.
Faiola spun the latest synod of Catholic bishops at the Vatican as a 'theological slugfest' between two main factions of the Catholic hierarchy: the 'liberal' backers of Pope Francis vs 'traditionalists.'
In their report, UNFPA begins with a definition of MSM as 'men who have sex with men,' and 'should be understood to include young men, i.e. those in the age range 10–24 years.'
UN member states have repeatedly complained that the human rights machinery is promoting special rights on the basis of sexual preference and behavior without any foundation in binding international law.
In newly released videos from the Center for Medical Progress, an abortionist says she 'can't ignore the fetus, right, because the fetus is the marker of how well - how good a job you did.'
The word "progressive has being mentioned a great deal in recent months in politics, academia and media and especially prior to and during the Vatican Synod on the Family .
The AP gave 'the false impression that Liberty Counsel is a racist, hateful, and dishonest organization. Nothing could be further from the truth,' says Mat Staver.
If a 'divorced and remarried Catholic' erroneously considers that they should receive Holy Communion a pastor should share the teachings of the Catholic Church with them in a clear and charitable way.
Pope Francis can only restore trust by publicly correcting heresy and by ending his practice of conferring honours and influence on prelates who reject the Catholic faith.
The State Department says that with the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision in effect, "domestic partner" benefits for homosexuals are obsolete. Gay activists groups disagree.
Three challengers seek to unseat North Carolina's Rep. Renee Ellmers, who disappointed pro-lifers this year by killing significant pro-life legislation at a key moment.
Despite reports of conflict throughout the Synod, this week reliably orthodox Synod fathers seemed to be repudiating claims that contention is still occurring during the Synod.
'Do you see where conservatives – sometimes their heads explode because they say, 'Boy, there's one set of rules for people on the left and a total different set of rules for people on the right'?"
Pro-life Conservatives actually withstood the seemingly unstoppable Liberal wave remarkably well. Over 41% of the Conservative caucus will be pro-life.
Hackers can cross-reference information passed from computer to computer and find out the identities of internet porn users, on software engineer warns.
"It's better to prevent this danger by closing women's restrooms to men, rather than waiting for a crime to happen," Houston Astros' Lance "Big Puma" Berkman said in a TV commercial.
The Liberal leader will try “to foist upon the country social change that will include expanded abortion, permissive euthanasia, easy access to drugs, and other departures from moral sanity and our cultural tradition says, Paul Tuns of TheInterim.com.
Pelosi made her comment as Planned Parenthood remains under multiple Congressional investigations for allegedly altering their abortion technique to maximize the number of organs harvested for sale.
Laws may be added above and beyond the natural law, for example human laws that seek to serve the common good in concrete circumstances, but these laws can never negate the natural law.
'I collapsed in sheer exhaustion. I told her that I had been outside for hours. I cried hysterically, curled over with my head in my hands on my knees.'
For all of our culture’s babbling about 'diversity' and 'authenticity,' there are limits to how 'diverse' and 'authentic' many people are prepared to tolerate.
The cardinal criticized the argument, advanced by Synod fathers such as Archbishop Cupich, that the Church should give Communion to people in sinful situations if they believe they are sinning 'in good conscience.'
'I am Jesus Choice… I am here to bring the third testament of the Lord,' the man identified as Comedian Nick Morgan-Moore told pro-life activist, David Day.
'You and your Planned Parenthood affiliates are no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent safe, legal and ethical manner,' the state's termination letter said.
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge indicated it wasn’t only one Synod Father who spoke about the “smoke of Satan” having entered the Church via the Synod.
Another major factor for the Climate treaty’s likely success this time, after many past failures, is the unprecedented, strong public support of the Roman Catholic Church under Pope Francis.
The overall content and tone of Archbishop Koch's report are troubling and filled with a softening and liberalizing tenor, without directly attacking dogma or infallible teaching of the Church.
The Obergefell decision has effectively made it “open season on churches, individuals and organizations that understand and live out the truth that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
By treating marriage and family as a mere construct of the state, and denying the normativity of the intact biological family, the majority in Obergefell have effectively enshrined this statist vision of childrearing in our law.
Last week cardinals and bishops attending the Ordinary Synod on the Family separated into thirteen small groups to discuss the first part of the Instrumentum Laboris and propose amendments to the document. The reports of their work, made public last week, reveal a striking failure to protect the family from the serious threats contained within the first part of this heterodox preparatory document.
It is striking how a little bit of reality, even when that reality concerns animals, could cause strongly pro-abortion students to reconsider their positions.
At the time of his arrest, Pendergraft had in his possession surgical implements that were covered in blood and human tissue from abortions he had illegally performed throughout South Carolina.
Wasserman Schultz’s refusal to admit the humanity of humans in utero shows a weakness in her position: She must ignore biological fact to preserve her ideology.
If Devin had not been pregnant in the car crash, she would be dead. Baby Madalyn saved her mother's life, making a difference in the short 9 months she lived in this world.
Long wait times, lack of care, poor service, and lack of client compassion...these reviews seriously contradict Planned Parenthood’s own tagline: 'Care. No Matter What.'
The diocese is in an uproar over what Marni Parnas, a father of four children, claims is the bishop's unequivocal support for his transition to female.
Van Thiel is just one of three abortionists arrested in recent weeks. 'Pretty close to anything you want to learn you can learn it off YouTube for free,' he said.
'The conscience is inviolable and we have to respect that when they make decisions, and I’ve always done that,' said Cupich on divorced and remarried couples, something he indicated also applied to gay couples.
This statement was delivered at the Voice of the Family press conference in Rome Thursday morning, which was also addressed by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke.
A state representative told LifeSiteNews, 'It is time to hold these activist judges accountable for their courtroom decisions that run opposite of traditional family values and protection of the unborn.'
The Stewarts shared the pictures of their miscarried son in the hopes that people can see through Roman the humanity of the preborn, and choose life for their children.
Jindal pledged to defund Planned Parenthood son after CMP released their undercover videos implicating the abortion organization in selling aborted baby body parts.
Roth's trunk also contained medical equipment used for abortions, and large amounts of Fentanyl, a sedative used on women undergoing abortion to relieve pain.
Some of today’s stories reveal that LifeSite cannot exaggerate the extreme importance of what is happening at the Synod on the Family in Vatican City. There is indeed a great battle being played out in that three-week meeting.
The bishop was sued by a homosexual organization, Pink Cross, and charged with a Hate Crime because, in a public talk in Fulda, Germany, on 31 July, he had quoted certain Old Testament passages concerning practicing homosexuals.
I am convinced that these were prophetical words of the holy pope, the author of “Humanae vitae”. During the Synod last year, “the smoke of Satan” was trying to enter the aula of Paul VI.
At the last minute, when a text came in from parents he knew that were pulling their children out of school that day in protest against the Wynne sex ed curriculum, Alain Achkar opted to stay home with his children. “I am glad that I did it,” he said, “because for the first time in my life I am doing something, you know, taking a position."
The law is 'nothing short of a state-sponsored attack on women by the highly profitable abortion industry' said the head of one network of pro-life centers.
The video reveals the truth about the abortion industry and later-term abortions in general, demonstrating that abortion clinics fail to actually care for women and leave possibly living babies to die in toilets.
Is it worthwhile considering whether reproductive technology like IVF is creating a future that no-one but the most extreme misanthrope actually wants?
Voice of the Family is honoured to make available to the public this English translation of the intervention made to the Ordinary Synod by Archbishop Fülöp Kocsis, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog.
Cardinal Pell also asserts that the synod fathers are indeed concerned about the composition of the commission that will draw up the final report and about the synodal procedures.
'Everyone seems to be very much on edge,' said Raymond Arroyo. 'There is a high degree of anxiety it seems to me about what exactly are the processes.'
Curiously, it seems to have escaped the notice of some members of the hierarchy that the authoritative teaching of St. John Paul II's encyclical Veritatis Splendor condemns ahead of time Cardinal Kasper’s outrageous “pastoral” proposals that violate Catholic doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage.
Is it a coincidence that an address by Cardinal Robert Sarah, condemning 'gender ideology,' was not included in the daily briefings, while a seemingly off-topic talk by Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher, suggesting that women might be ordained as deacons, was given ample coverage?
The popular star of Frasier and Cheers is a well-known neo-con and frequenter of disreputable (in liberal circles) places such as pro-life conferences.
Austrian Cardinal, Christoph Schönborn, who was unexpectedly elected by the other Synod fathers of the German group to become their moderator, instead of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, is known for his support of same-sex “unions”
'That's really where we're having at times some struggle, some confusion,' Bishop O’Connell said. 'And he never goes back to clarify. He just puts it out there.'
Do not let the horror of abortion be the main issue. Stick to the pertinent facts: Planned Parenthood is profiting from the sale of fetal parts. Planned Parenthood is routinely violating federal law.
Cardinal Nichols’s approach to human sexuality has caused the pro-life, pro-family movement grave concern for many years. He has been elected as moderator of the one of the four English-speaking circuli minores (small groups) at the Ordinary Synod on the Family. The moderator has extensive influence on the direction of the discussion and thus on the content of the final report of the small group.
The CLC ads in question list the Federal candidates who both live and vote by their pro-life convictions according to their voting records and other criteria compiled and carefully evaluated by CLC.
'When I opened it up and saw two baby scans it absolutely shattered me. It was just an awful feeling. It felt as if I had to go through the loss all over again.”
'It doesn’t bear thinking about what could have happened to the little baby. It’s a miracle someone heard her crying and had the presence of mind to investigate.'
- Over 130 prominent adult converts have signed a joint open letter to Pope Francis and to the bishops attending the Ordinary Synod on the Family, asking for synod not to betray them.
Legalizing PAS has been associated with an increased rate of total suicides relative to other states and no decrease in nonassisted suicides. This suggests either that PAS does not inhibit (nor acts as an alternative to) nonassisted suicide, or that it acts in this way in some individuals but is associated with an increased inclination to suicide in other individuals.
State, "We work for the acceptance of same-sex relationships". Speaker promoted the idea of moral diversity within the Church. For her, it will be a “test for the 'pastoral change' as expressed by Pope Francis,”
The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled Liberty Counsel, whose efforts enabled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to have an audience with Pope Francis, a "hate group."
Dean Cain, who played superman on the TV show, plays investigating detective James Wood in 'Gosnell: America's biggest serial killer,' a crowd-funded drama.
'I support the morning after pill being available over the counter – and I certainly support them being made available immediately for rape victims,' he said.
Over the last 40 years, in addition to performing an estimated 150,000 abortions, Summit Women's Center has also been blamed for a series of women injured in botched abortions.
The percentage of homosexual priests in the Catholic Church is substantial, so substantial that the drama now underway at the Vatican synod was inevitable.
When an official of the Roman Curia proudly announces that he has a homosexual lover, he’s will draw plenty of publicity. Given the sympathies of the mass media, most of that publicity will be favorable.
In its detailed audit of Canada’s politicians, the Campaign Life Coalition does not award Leitch the green light it gives pro-life candidates and MPs, but rather bestows the more ambiguous orange light indicating that “voters should be cautious about this politician.”
Planned Parenthood claims its North Carolina locations do not participate in what they call tissue donation, leading GOP State Rep. Sarah Stevens to conclude that supporting the bill 'shouldn’t be a problem.'
Richards said she is grateful for the 'compassionate' care exhibited by Nucatola, but Nucatola's horrific statements reflect that the care patients receive from Planned Parenthood is far from compassionate.
'...until I really completed my first Genesis through Revelation reading of the Bible which I did since I was incarcerated, I really didn’t feel as comfortable as I am.'
Everyone from President Obama to a Miss America contestant has repeated the lie that women need Planned Parenthood in order to receive mammograms, but these women proved them wrong.
RTLA's Collier related lawyers "saying this (legal action) is a very, very important thing for your organisation to do because they'll (otherwise) be able to shut down and disallow any other speaker who comes to talk about a pro-life issue,”
The State agency that ordered an Oregon Christian couple to pay two lesbians $135,000 for refusing to take part in their homosexual 'wedding' has begun legal proceedings to seize the couple’s assets.
'I’ve had to search my conscience and decide which master I’m going to follow, and it’s the kids,' stated Edmonton Catholic School board trustee Patricia Grell.
The director made a behind-the-scenes deal with Planned Parenthood and another abortion business so that they could keep doing surgical abortions while appealing a license denial.