Interdenominational prayer service in observance of 40 years since Roe vs. Wade
http://www.priestsforlife.org/roe-vs-wade-40/invite.aspx

Contraception mandate kicks in for wave of employers
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/contraception-mandate-kicks-in-for-wave-of-employers/

Our Lady of Guadalupe documentary to premiere in DC
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/our-lady-of-guadalupe-documentary-to-premiere-in-dc/

10 Pro-Life Books on Abortion Worth Reading in 2013
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/03/10-pro-life-books-on-abortion-worth-reading-in-2013/

Shocking Time Magazine Cover: After 40 Years, Abortion Activists Losing
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/03/shocking-time-magazine-cover-after-40-years-abortion-activists-losing/

Photo of Baby Reaching Out From Womb During C-Section Goes Viral
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/photo-of-baby-reaching-out-from-womb-during-c-section-goes-viral/

Abortion Methods and Abortion Procedures Used to Kill Unborn Babies
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/abortion-methods-and-abortion-procedures-used-to-kill-unborn-babies/

Michael Davies Was a 'Man of the Church'
http://www.zenit.org/article-36226?l=english

Taxpayer Funds Account for 72% of Abortion Clinic’s Budget
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/20/taxpayer-funds-account-for-72-of-abortion-clinics-budget/

Planned Parenthood Celebrates Christmas With Chocolate Birth Control http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/20/planned-parenthood-celebrates-christmas-with-chocolate-birth-control/

A Time for Christians to Engage with the World
"The Birth of Christ Challenges us to Reassess our Priorities, Our Values, Our Very Way of Life."
http://www.zenit.org/article-36219?l=english

Abornaments? Abortion Activists Make Sacrilegious Ornaments http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/19/abornaments-abortion-activists-make-sacrilegious-ornaments/

Will The Church Ignore Abortion Like It Ignored the Holocaust?
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/19/will-the-church-ignore-abortion-like-it-ignored-the-holocaust/

“The path to the attainment of the common good and to peace is above all that of respect for human life in all its many aspects, beginning with its conception, through its development and up to its natural end. True peacemakers, then, are those who love, defend and promote human life in all its dimensions, personal, communitarian and transcendent. Life in its fullness is the height of peace. Anyone who loves peace cannot tolerate attacks and crimes against life.”
-Pope Benedict XVI

Pope: True Peacemakers Defend Human Life From Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/14/pope-truce-peacemakers-defend-human-life-from-abortion/

"The human heart has depths from which schemes of unheard-of ferocity sometimes emerge, capable of destroying in a moment the normal daily life of a people. But faith comes to our aid at these times when words seem to fail. Christ’s word is the only one that can give a response to the questions which trouble our spirit. Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Christian hope is based on this truth; at this time our prayerful trust draws strength from it."
+Bl. Pope John Paul II

 

 

"In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil."
-Pope Benedict XVI

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protector of the Unborn

Blessed are you, daughter, by the Most High God, above all the women on earth;

and blessed be the Lord God, the creator of heaven and earth.
Judith 13:18

O Mary,
bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life
Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers
of babies not allowed to be born,
of the poor whose lives are made difficult,
of men and women
who are victims of brutal violence,
of the elderly and the sick killed
by indifference or out of misguided mercy.

Grant that all who believe in your Son
may proclaim the Gospel of life
with honesty and love
to the people of our time.

Obtain for them the grace
to accept that Gospel
as a gift ever new,
the joy of celebrating it with gratitude
throughout their lives
and the courage to bear witness to it
resolutely, in order to build,
together with all people of good will,
the civilization of truth and love,
to the praise and glory of God,
the Creator and lover of life.

+Bl. Pope John Paul II+

Amnesty International Bans Pro-Life Group From Human Rights Event http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/10/amnesty-international-bans-pro-life-group-from-human-rights-event/

Court Rules Obama HHS Mandate Doesn’t Protect Religious Liberty
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/06/court-rules-obama-hhs-mandate-doesnt-protect-religious-liberty/

New HHS Mandate Ruling Shows Obama Not Protecting Religious Rights http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/06/new-hhs-mandate-ruling-shows-obama-not-protecting-religious-rights/

This Christmas, Don’t Shop at Stores Funding Planned Parenthood http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/04/this-christmas-dont-shop-at-stores-funding-planned-parenthood/

Planned Parenthood: 330,000 Abortions, 841 Adoptions, 0 Births http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/04/planned-parenthood-330000-abortions-841-adoptions-0-births/

Video Game Teaches Women How to Do Illegal Abortions at Home http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/04/video-game-teaches-women-how-to-do-illegal-abortions-at-home/

U.S Senate Defeats CRPD Treaty That Would Promote Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/04/u-s-senate-defeats-crpd-treaty-that-would-promote-abortion/

Pope: Catholic Groups Can’t Support Pro-Abortion Effort
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/pope-catholic-groups-cant-support-pro-abortion-efforts/

Amazing Video Shows Unborn Twins Fighting in the Womb
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/amazing-video-shows-unborn-twins-fighting-in-the-womb/

Season of Advent

 

 

"Behold, I am coming soon."
Rv 22:7

Marana tha! Come, Lord Jesus!
1 Cor 16:22

"Yoga, Tai Chi, Reiki: A Guide for Christians" (Connor Court Publishing) by De La Salle brother, Max Sculley

Yoga and Christianity: More Than What Meets the Eye
New Book Warns of Possible Dangers
http://www.zenit.org/article-36066?l=english

Statement on Reiki from the Catholic bishops:
http://old.usccb.org/doctrine/Evaluation_Guidelines_finaltext_2009-03.pdf

Senate Expected to Vote on Pro-Abortion CRPD Treaty Tuesday http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/30/senate-expected-to-vote-on-pro-abortion-crpd-treaty-tuesday/

Urge your Senators to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities! England’s Outrage: Dehydrating Disabled Babies in UK Hospitals http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/30/englands-outrage-dehydrating-disabled-babies-in-uk-hospitals/

Internet spying: governments now recording everything
Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule http://rt.com/news/assange-internet-control-totalitarian-943/

Will new, improved prenatal screening open door for eugenics?http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/1771/will_new_improved_prenatal_screening_open_door_for_eugenics.aspx

Senate Votes to Begin Debate on Pro-Abortion UN Treat
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/28/senate-votes-to-begin-debate-on-pro-abortion-un-treaty/

Amazing New Process Creates 3-D Model of Your Unborn Chid http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/28/amazing-new-process-creates-3-d-model-of-your-unborn-child/

Pro-Life Film “Life Happens” Captures Inspiring Abortion Storieshttp://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/28/pro-life-film-life-happens-captures-inspiring-abortion-stories/

Supreme Court Orders New Look at Obamacare, Abortion Funding
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/26/supreme-court-orders-new-look-at-obamacare-abortion-funding/

Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic Offers Black Friday Discount
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/23/planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic-offers-black-friday-discount/

Thanksgiving Day shopping called 'assault' on family life http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/thanksgiving-day-shopping-called-assault-on-family-life/

New Book Exposes How Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia Prey on People
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/19/new-book-exposes-how-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-prey-on-people/

Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/16/top-10-reasons-to-oppose-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-decision/

Life at Conception Act - an overview
http://www.prolifealliance.com/LCA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

Sign the Petition for the “Life At Conception Act” Overturn Roe v. Wade http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlacx_petition.aspxpid=45jha&gclid=CMD828vU3bMCFUQw4AodwSoA2w

Rite for the Blessing of a Child in the Womb
http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/prayers/upload/Rite-for-the-Blessing-of-a-Child-in-the-Womb.pdf

THE MOST CHERISHED OF AMERICAN FREEDOMS
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/loader.cfmcsModule=security/getfile&pageid=55842

“Interview with an unborn child”
http://interviewwithunborn.com/

Planned Parenthood: Celebrate Mother’s Day by Funding Abortions http://www.lifenews.com/2012/05/10/planned-parenthood-celebrate-mothers-day-by-funding-abortions/

Using Aborted Babies for Medicine, Is Cannibalism Next?
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/05/10/using-aborted-babies-for-medicine-is-cannibalism-next/

17,000 ‘Aphrodisiac’ pills made from dead, aborted babies seized by police in South Korea http://www.lifesite.net/news/17000-aphrodisiac-pills-made-from-dead-aborted-babies-seized-by-police-in-s

Religious Freedom Threat - Action Alert

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/index.cfm
http://www.nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=292

“ ‘Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.’ Therefore, according to the Gospel, any citizen can be a good Catholic – that is, side with Jesus Christ and the Pope, and do good to his fellow men – and at the same time side with Caesar, namely, observe the laws of the land, except when the rulers persecute religion or tyrannize the consciences and minds of citizens.” 
+St. John Bosco

Religious Freedom Under Threat in the USA
http://www.zenit.org/article-34199?l=english 

54,559,615 Abortions Since 1973 Roe vs. Wade Decision
http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/statsre.jpg

New Video Features Survivors of Abortion
http://turnthetide2012.com/

Reform and the Tears of Prophets, Part 1
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1937

Reform and Tears of the Prophets, Part 2
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1938

Reform and Tears of the Prophets, Part 3
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1939

Video Depicts Unborn Baby’s Full Development

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/23/astounding-video-depicts-unborn-babys-full-development/

Veteran's Day

"180" Award Winning Pro Life Documentary

Public Advisory Graphic Content!
http://www.180movie.com/

The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed

Heavenly Father, You sent Christ Jesus your Son to wash away the sins of all mankind through His perfect sacrifice, and you cleansed our departed brothers and sisters in the waters of Baptism. May His perfect sacrifice free them from the power of death and give them eternal life. In your mercy, O Lord, grant them eternal rest, and may perpetual light shine on them forever. +Amen.

Murder by Gossip

http://catholicexchange.com/2011/09/20/159248/print/

URGENT ACTION ALERTS: New Threat to Conscience

On August 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an "interim final rule" that will require virtually all private health plans to include coverage for all FDA-approved prescription contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and related "patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity." These are listed among "preventive services for women" that all health plans will have to include without co-pays or other cost-sharing -- regardless of whether the insurer, the employer or other plan sponsor, or even the woman herself objects to such coverage.

Concerned Americans have until September 30th to send their comments to HHS: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/

Catholic Doctors’ Group Launches Petition Against Contraception Mandate

Sign the Petition here:
http://stopthebirthcontrolmandate.org/

The International Week of Prayer and Fasting

http://www.iwopf.org/

Recalling Catholic Opposition to Nazi Euthanasia Program
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/04/recalling-catholic-opposition-to-nazi-euthanasia-program/

Vatican Cardinal Burke: In today’s society ‘morality has ceased to exist’ http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-cardinal-burke-in-todays-society-morality-has-ceased-to-exist

U. S. Bishops Speak Out Against Contraception Mandate

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/contraception-mandate-tramples-religious-freedom-us-bishops-say/

Holy See on the Rights of Youth
http://www.zenit.org/article-33172?l=english 

Youth Coalition Presents Family-Oriented Message at UN Summit http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/youth-coalition-presents-family-oriented-message-at-un-summit/

Pro-Life Group Sees Recipe for Success
http://www.zenit.org/article-33171?l=english

Atrocious!

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abortionist-admits-babies-sometimes-born-alive-and-left-wiggling-around-in

This Picture 'Speaks' the Truth!

Warning: Extremely Graphic!
http://www.lifesitenews.com/photo-late-term-aborted-baby-lies-in-open-casket-at-city-hall-funeral.html

Census: Share of children in US Hits Record Low

http://news.yahoo.com/census-share-children-us-hits-record-low-192800740.html

Heroic Media Launches Pro-life, Pro-family News Service

http://www.zenit.org/article-33060?l=english

Heroic News: www.heroicnews.org

Independence Day

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."
~Charles Carroll, (Catholic) signer of the Declaration of Independence

Sapientiae Christianae—On Christians as Citizens, Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_10011890_sapientiae-christianae_en.html

Freedom negates and destroys itself, and becomes a factor leading to the destruction of others, when it no longer recognizes and respects its essential link with the truth. When freedom, out of a desire to emancipate itself from all forms of tradition and authority, shuts out even the most obvious evidence of an objective and universal truth, which is the foundation of personal and social life, then the person ends up by no longer taking as the sole and indisputable point of reference for his own choices the truth about good and evil, but only his subjective and changeable opinion or, indeed, his selfish interest and whim.


This view of freedom leads to a serious distortion of life in society. If the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another.... In this way, any reference to common values and to a truth absolutely binding on everyone is lost, and social life ventures on to the shifting sands of complete relativism. At that point, everything is negotiable, everything is open to bargaining: even the first of the fundamental rights, the right to life.


To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom....
Evangelium Vitae - The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II

Memorial Day

World Youth Day Rosary Campaign Launched

Several organizations are coming together to promote a campaign launched by Family Rosary International, to unite people worldwide in praying the rosary for the success of  World Youth Day, each Saturday from the beginning of May until the event, August 16-21 in Madrid.
http://www.familyrosary.org/en/FirmInFaithWithMary.aspx

Catholic End of Life Care Conference

The youngest daughter of St. Gianna Molla, will be a special guest speaker at the end of life conference: "Being Faithful, Even Unto Death", organized by The St. Gianna Physician’s Guild.
Conference info: www.defendingnaturaldeath.org

To Be Born Video Released

To Be Born is about a young woman faced with an unplanned pregnancy that seeks to have an abortion. In the midst of the procedure, she finds herself in a regrettable situation when she hears her unborn daughter begin to describe the chilling details of what is happening to her. Approximate run time: 15 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdkWqHTgdpQ&hd=1

“Man and sinner are two different things. God made man; man made himself sinner. So, destroy what man made but save what God made. Thus, do not go so far as to kill the criminal, for in wishing to punish the sin, you are destroying the man. Do not take away his life; leave him the possibility of repentance. Do not kill so that he can correct himself.”
+St. Augustine

The Vatican's Official Ven. Pope John Paul II Beatification Website

http://www.karol-wojtyla.org/En/Home%20Page.aspx

International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration

June 20 to June 24, 2011-Rome, Italy

Organised by the Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist, a new community founded by Bishop Rey in 2007, the conference brings together a wide range of international speakers, including six prominent Cardinals. “The first condition for the new evangelisation is adoration”, Bishop Rey said. “We must regain the ability to adore Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist if we are to bring the men and women of the twenty-first century to faith in Jesus Christ. This is one of the key themes of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI”, he emphasised, “which is why we are taking this initiative.”

The conference will conclude by joining with Pope Benedict in his celebration of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran and the Eucharistic procession to the Basilica of St. Mary Major that follows.

For more info: http://www.adoratio2011.com/

US Bishops Launch John Paul II Memorial Website

http://www.usccb.org/popejohnpaulii/

Virtual Pilgrimage to St. Francis of Assisi's Tomb

http://www.sanfrancescopatronoditalia.it/webcam_tomba_san_francesco.php
Devotees of St. Francis may also send their prayer requests to: latuapreghiera@sanfrancesco.org

Vatican Invites Catholic Bloggers to Dialogue

http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/vatican-invites-catholic-bloggers-to-dialogue/

US Bishops Urge Protection of Conscience Rights

Warn Against Potential Misuse of Health Care Law:
http://www.zenit.org/article-32244?l=english

Conscience Protection, read more:
http://www.usccb.org/conscienceprotection/DiNardo-ltr-HR1179.pdf

Pope's Homily During Ash Wednesday Mass

Pope: Lent Is Intense Time of Meaning, Not Sadness-Underlines Reflection on God's Merciful Love
"Let Us Begin This Lenten Itinerary Confident and Joyful"
~Pope Benedict XVI
http://www.zenit.org/article-31980?l=english

On the Itinerary of Lent

Pope: Fasting Requires Nourishment on Word of God-Speaks of Lenten Journey, Following Christ
"We Must Encounter, Receive and Follow Christ"
~Pope Benedict XVI
http://www.zenit.org/article-31972?l=english

Holy See Statement on Sustainable Development

Holy See: Humans Aren't Development Barriers-Promotes Green Economy Centered on Persons
"The Economy Needs Objective Moral Formation in Order to Function Correctly."
http://www.zenit.org/article-31967?l=english