PRAY FOR NETTIE VON DEHN OF B.C. 15 year old Nettie Von Dehn (Daughter of well known Vancouver Pro-life activist Sissy Von Dehn) has been admitted to hospital with a brain tumor. Prognosis is not encouraging but she is receiving the best of care. Please pray for Nettie and her family and spread this prayer request to everyone CHEMICALS IN PRODUCTS DAMAGE MALE FERTILITY Artificial female-hormone chemicals found in soya, beer, pesticides and paint can adversely affect male fertility, says a study with the first evidence that a range of potent environmental estrogens disrupt the behaviour of sperm inside a woman’s body. The study did not take into account the impact of the high volume of estrogen in the environment as a result of widespread use of human contraceptive pills, blamed for the alarming appearance in rivers of impotent male fish. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/03/wfert03.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/07/03/por_right.html For details on male fish deformed by human contraceptive pill detritus flushed into rivers see: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$14IMEZIAAJKVXQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/03/27/nfish27.xml
POPE CONFIRMS HE WILL NOT RETIRE The London Guardian reports that the Pope used a front-page article in an Italian newspaper to deny rumours that his deteriorating health may force him to resign. The article, authorised by the Pope, in the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, quotes Vittorio Messori author of Crossing a Threshold of Hope as retelling the pope’s response to the rumours as: “The strength to continue is not my problem but that of Christ, who called me, despite my unworthiness, to be his Vicar on earth. In his mysterious design He brought me here and He will decide my destiny.” https://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,746962,00.html WOMEN URGED ‘NOT TO RUSH IVF TREATMENT’ Most women – even those in their late thirties – will conceive naturally within two years of trying, research suggests. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2089000/2089381.stm