Its that time of year again. The financial well has run dry.
Actually, we needed to send this out over a month ago but just couldn’t get it together because of other urgent matters.
For the many readers who are receiving one of these appeals for the first time, we want to emphasize that we don’t do this often. Just when we are in real need. That is now. LifeSiteNews.com operates almost entirely on donations from generous readers.
We are told by numerous readers, from various countries, that LifeSiteNews.com reports are a huge help which allow them to take actions and bring about changes that would never have been possible without the facts we provide.
Like Jaroslav, a daily LifeSiteNews.com reader, who wrote us a few weeks ago from Slovakia to ask permission to translate and reprint one of our articles for a journal for which he is on the editorial board. Jaroslav wrote: “Let me congratulate to your work, your webpage is the best source of information related to culture-wars I know.”
Readers also emphasize that our stories shine a light on crucial things that they would otherwise have never fully understood or become aware of. The most frequent comment we hear is “how do you find out all this stuff??!” The answer is “blood, sweat and tears”, love of life and truth, trust in God, total dedication.
Just publishing the truth – verifiable facts on life, family and culture, that much of the mainstream media hide, distort or deny, has proven to be amazingly powerful stuff. That’s why the establishment places a huge emphasis on squelching that information. They can’t allow the population to know what is really going on. That would collapse their fragile house of cards built on deceit, manipulation or deliberate neglect.
Oh, how we wish we could reach far more people with our news stories! So far, we’ve only scratched the surface.
We need your help to first just continue what we are doing and then to reach more of the masses hungry for far better than the unsatisfactory gruel of deliberately limited, controlled news and information they now receive.
Please send us a donation of $25, $100, $500, $1,000 or much more or less. Whatever you can afford. Consider this a solid investment in something that produces an unusually high degree of results.
If all our regular readers responded with a donation, we would be able to manage reasonably well for some time. We could begin to implement more of the significant improvements we have in the planning stage.
To those few of you who are able to send a large donation, please consider such a donation an effective use of funds. We get huge results, dollar for dollar, because of the nature of what we do and how we do it. Email or call us if you have questions.
We are able to offer a few special items this time to say thank you for your contributions:
1. Physician’s Oath
2. Audio CD of New Scott Hahn Talk on John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
1. Physician’s Oath
There is a growing movement among physicians to renew the practice of formally dedicating themselves to the HippocraticOath which committed the physician to not take life in any way such as by abortion or assisted suicide. It is therefore no wonder it has been suppressed.
Another problem with the Oath, however, was its awkward reference to Greek gods and some outdated language.
A local physician, regretting his past lack of emphasis on traditional medical ethics, asked us if we knew where he could obtain a copy of the Hippocratic Oath that he could put up in his office. After looking into this we saw a need for an updated Oath, faithful to the principles of the original, and still incorporating much of the original language.
And so, we present to you, the Physician’s Oath, designed exclusively for LifeSiteNews.com by Agape Graphics. The physician who started this has had two framed copies of the 11 X 14 inch Oath on 100 lb. stock posted in his office for the past several months,
Why would you want the printed oath? To give to any physician you know who would consider framing it and placing it in a prominent place in his or her office for all patients to see. We know that many doctors and medical school graduateswould welcome this gift. They are fed up with the current medical culture and want something to effectively convey their ethical beliefs to their patients.
For those doctors who aren’t sure they want the Oath, leave it with them as something to consider. After all, it does conform to the original Hippocratic Oath that was taken for centuries by almost all doctors.
The printed Oath is available to you for a minimum donation of $15. If you would like to receive it, please enter “Physicians Oath” in the online comments section or in your letter along with your donation. For those who want to order a number of these, email us at [email protected], telling us how many you are requesting and we will get back to you with price and shipping costs.
2.Audio CD of New Scott Hahn Talk based on John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
The renowned, dynamic Catholic biblical scholar, Scott Hahn, gave a talk in Toronto on April 18 based on Pope John Paul II’s revolutionary theology of the body. We were there to record this amazing talk coincidentally given on the same day as the funeral of the late, great Pope.
We offer this to our Catholic supporters as well as any others who may wish to understand John Paul’s natural law and scriptural based theology of sexuality, marriage, the family, fatherhood, motherhood and the impossibility of homosexual ‘marriage’.
Hahn produced amazed reactions from his audience as he revealed the foundations of Christian concepts of family life. He explained, among many other things, how “the primordial model of the family is to be found in God” and that God, the trinity, “is a family”. Hahn also shared fascinating insights from his personal life and much more that highlighted points of his talk.
For a donation of $25 or more we will send you this 80 minute, high quality audio CD or audio cassette. If you would like to receive this, please include the words “Hahn CD” or “Hahn Cassette” with your donation. Unlike some past offerings, these CDs and tapes are ready now to ship.
For a donation of $50 or more we will send you both the Scott Hahn talk and the Physician’s Oath, if you would like to receive them. Please add the words “Hahn CD” (or cassette) “and/or Physician’s Oath” along with your donation. If you are able, we encourage you to not limit your donations to the minimums stated above. However, of course, ANY amount is deeply appreciated and most helpful.
To donate online or for instructions on donating by mail see here.
For truth, freedom, life, family and culture
Steve Jalsevac
Managing Director
LifeSiteNews.com