Category: Prolife
Whose Rights? The Paradox of Moral Relativism
Whose rights are protected in a relativistic culture? It is precisely on this point that relativistic societies face a serious dilemma: How does a community arbitrate various individuals’ competing interests? There is much rhetoric in our modern world about protecting human rights and every individual’s freedom, but what if one person or group wants to [...]
Asking Tough Questions in the Wake of Tragedy
There is no shortage of disturbing images in the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The grand jury report is not for the faint of heart. And while I ardently disagree with the decision by most news organizations to – at least initially – not cover the trial, I can still understand why they wouldn’t [...]
Why the Media is Afraid of Dr. Gosnell
There has been an outcry against the media silence of perhaps one of the most horrific, under-reported story in modern times: Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic now known as “The House of Horrors.” The only national TV source has been Fox News while the three major networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS continue to [...]
The Pro-Life Movement and the Culture of Death: Are we fighting fire with fire?
In the fight against the culture of death, are our words enough? Is a political movement of people enough? Is protest enough? These are questions that need to be asked, especially in the wake of this year’s March for Life in Washington, DC. This article will hopefully articulate my response to these questions based upon [...]
The Virtue of Blind Obedience
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort writes in his True Devotion To the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nos. 106-110, that her ten principal virtues are: deep humility, lively faith, blind obedience, unceasing prayer, constant self-denial, surpassing purity, ardent love, heroic patience, angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom. Nine of those are easy to understand as virtues, but blind obedience? ***** Hidden [...]
NFP and a Surprise Pregnancy
Little over a month after my husband and I converted to Catholicism I became pregnant with our second child. There was no real surprise in the news. We were trying to conceive and actually found the information we’d learned in our class on Natural Family Planning to be immensely helpful in the process. The real [...]
When I Was “Pro-Choice”
There was a time in my life when I was “pro-choice.” I was raised by parents who were adamantly pro-life members of the Baptist church in the small Georgia town where I grew up, but their passion for this cause had little effect on me at the time. When I left the Baptist church as [...]
The Price of Saving Lives: An Interview with Monica Migliorino Miller
In my parish, our associate pastor often serves Mass while his mother looks on from the congregation. Last week, he went to Rome to defend his doctoral dissertation and was awarded the highest honor, summa cum laude. He is brilliant, speaks seven languages, and yet, is gentle, kind-hearted, and down-to-earth. This priest’s mother spoke publicly for the [...]
How Artificial Birth Control Aborts Babies
How can something be both immense and minute at the same time? Something upon which all of human history depends, yet, it is fragile and almost non-existent to the eye? It is the union of an egg and sperm—an embryo. Such is God’s way. He takes something smaller than a mustard seed and brings forth [...]
The Komen Alternative
One of the most frequently asked questions I receive from my radio listeners has to do with alternatives to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Active Catholics are slowly beginning to understand that there is a connection between Komen and the nation’s largest abortion provider; Planned Parenthood. That said, outside of Catholic media and a very few [...]
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