Holy Trinity is again hosting a fundraising event at Cypress Cove Water Park for the pilgrims hoping to attend World Youth Day 2011. This year’s event will be held on Saturday August 8th from 7 – 9. TICKETS: $12.00 in advance. $15.00 at the door. $40.00 per family. Click here to read the (PDF) flyer
China Sees 13 Million Abortions Annually, Most Done on Young Single Women
Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) — China sees as many as 13 million abortions done on an annual basis, official state media are reporting today. The information is rare as the nation’s family planning agency, which endorses the country’s one-child policy that involves forced abortions, rarely releases such information to the public. The China Daily newspaper said [...]
Catholic Medical Association Statement on Health Care Reform
“While health-care reform is more important than ever, existing legislation in the House and Senate—combined with President Obama’s push for hasty action—could make our current, flawed system even worse,” said Catholic Medical Association representative R. Steven White, M.D., in a statement released on July 29, 2009. “Sound reform must be based on sound ethics and [...]
Catholic Groups Questioned About Support for Pro-Abortion Health Care Bills
As currently written, both the House and Senate bills pave the way for taxpayer-funded abortions and insurance mandates on abortion. Yet, Catholic Charities USA, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Health Association have banded together to promote the legislation. Read the article
Love, hate, philosophy, politics and science
There are truths that are unpalatable for a variety of reasons, one being that truth exacts our humble assent. Intellectual talents feed our pride: we assume that we know better than anyone else. Most heresies and key errors were engendered by “geniuses” whose pride blinded them to the fact that they were fallible. How very [...]
Nurse forced to participate in abortion sues hospital
“Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs,” Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Matt Bowman told LifeNews.com. “Requiring a devout, Catholic nurse to participate in a late-term abortion in order to remain employed is illegal, unethical, and violates her rights of conscience,” he added. According to the lawsuit, the abortion was [...]
Why Marriage Matters
In her article, “Why Marriage Matters,” Caitlin Flanagan provides a powerful, prudential defense of traditional marriage. Reflecting on the painfully public infidelities of Governor Sanford, Senator Ensign, and others, Flanagan laments the state of marriage in America and shows why its deterioration should concern us all. She writes, “There is no other single force causing [...]
Recent survey reveals what Muslims detest most about the West
Surveys of the world’s Muslims find that most Muslims support democracy and freedom. Indeed, many Muslims complain that they are ruled by Western-supported secular despots who deny people their right to self-government. Most Muslims also support scientific advancements and seek more prosperity through free markets and global trade. However one reads the Qur’an or the [...]
Note to Congress: Real freedom is the choosing of the good.
One should not be worried about whether one is free, but rather about what one does with that freedom. There is no virtue in being free; the virtue comes in the actions that stem from our freedom of choice. Real freedom is the choosing of the good. -St. Augustine
Nun becomes top-selling Polish cookbook writer
Sister Anastazja had been cooking for the Jesuits for years when they got the idea to put some of her best recipes together in a brochure, said Father Bogdan Calka, a director at the Catholic publishing house WAM. That evolved into her first book, “103 Cakes of Sister Anastazja,” which was published in 2001 and [...]
“We have lost the sense of sin”
The sacrament of penance is like an oil change for the soul. It’s like moving the furniture of our souls and getting to the places that escape everyday cleaning. It is like periodically checking the garden of our souls for weeds that hamper our discipleship. Read the article
Catholic Cemeteries head to temporarily oversee Burr Oak operations: judge
Day-to-day operation of the Burr Oak Cemetery has been wrested from the owners and turned over to the head of the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Catholic Cemeteries. During a Wednesday hearing, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Stuart Palmer OKd the appointment of Roman Szabelski, executive director of Catholic Cemeteries, to temporarily oversee the Alsip cemetery which [...]
NEA General Counsel Complains of Attacks from “Right-Wing Bastards”
SAN DIEGO, California, July 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The general counsel for the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teacher’s union, complained last week of the “conservative and right-wing bastards” that are “after” the NEA. At the same meeting, the NEA rejected a proposal that would have ceased their abortion advocacy, and went on record [...]
Prenuptial Cohabiting Can Spoil Marriage
Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don’t move in together until marriage, a new study suggests. Upwards of 70 percent of U.S. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate. The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of [...]
Ethnic Purity, Race Cleansing from the High Bench – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ethnic Purity, Race Cleansing from the High Bench. Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine…abstemiously politically correct as it always has… features a full-dress syphocantic interview brimming with servile flattery with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by one Emily Bazelon, listed as “a founding editor of Double X, Slate’s new Web site for women and the [...]
Seen on the web: On Obama, health care, social justice, abortion
I am still waiting to see how anyone brings the dead babies social justice. The issue so many cannot understand and to which obviously Pope Benedict spent his time (and gave Obama homework) is that the issue of life comes first … for without life, who cares what health care a dead baby has? http://deacbench.blogspot.com/2009/07/obamas-catholic-spokesman.html
