“How can we claim to speak for the marginalized and disenfranchised, if we are allowing millions of innocent children to be killed each year in the womb? If we cannot justify caring for the weakest and most innocent of God’s creatures, how can we call our society to resist the excesses of nationalism and militarism or confront global poverty or […]
Euthanasia
The Assault on Children in the Womb
An oppressive darkness has settled upon the United States of America. Forty-six years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States “legalized” abortion on demand and this country has never recovered from the damage inflicted on our moral fiber as tens of millions of children have been sacrificed on the “altar of self” out of expediency […]
The Dignity and Right to Life of the Human Person
Abortion Advocates Will Lose the Scientific Argument In the battle to win hearts and minds to the cause of life, it is sometimes necessary to speak in non-religious terms. This is certainly possible and effective. For example, medical science and biology can help us defend the lives of unborn children and argue persuasively for an end to abortion. An unborn child is alive. […]
The Euthanasia of Alfie Evans
[On] Saturday, April 28, Alfie Evans died, twelve days short of his second birthday, at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. In his 720 days of extra-uterine life, he became the most well-known and prayed for infant in the world. Alfie died ultimately because of the consequences of an undiagnosed neurodegenerative condition, but his death was expedited by a decision […]
The Assault on Unborn Children
An oppressive darkness has settled upon the United States of America. Forty-five years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States “legalized” abortion on demand and this country has never recovered from the damage inflicted on our moral fiber as tens of millions of children have been sacrificed on the “altar of self” out of expediency […]
Suffering Is An Act of Love
“I’m a nurse, and I’ve seen children suffer senselessly. It’s far more merciful to allow them to die than to suffer.” “If we humanely euthanize pets, why can’t we do the same for people? I see nothing wrong with this.” These, and other, statements reverberate in my mind in the aftermath of the recent Belgium child euthanasia headline. At one […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles
“How can we claim to speak for the marginalized and disenfranchised, if we are allowing millions of innocent children to be killed each year in the womb? If we cannot justify caring for the weakest and most innocent of God’s creatures, how can we call our society to resist the excesses of nationalism and militarism or confront global poverty or […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — on Abortion and Euthanasia
“Abortion and euthanasia have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and the condition for all others. They are committed against those who are weakest and most defenseless, those who are genuinely ‘the poorest of the poor.’ They are endorsed increasingly without the veil of euphemism, as supporters of abortion […]
The Dignity of the Human Person and the Right to Life
In the battle to win hearts and minds to the cause of life, it is sometimes necessary to speak in non-religious terms. This is certainly possible and effective. For example, medical science and biology can help us defend the lives of unborn children and argue persuasively for an end to abortion. An unborn child is alive. An unborn child is demonstrably human. An unborn […]
A Novena to St. John Paul II for Brittany — Please Pray
We’re coming up on the very first feast day of St. John Paul II. In 2011, just ahead of his beatification, I had the opportunity to interview his biographer, George Weigel, who called his priestly death the pope’s last encyclical. I would argue that, of all the great teachings we have from our former Holy Father – pages upon pages […]