I don’t know how to describe this except as evil. UK Catholic weekly “The Tablet” (which you can buy at the back of Church’s across the country) last week carried two articles attempting to justify abortion. Including the claim that “Saving the life of the mother is a proportionate reason justifying the abortion” and unbelievably [...]
Defending Life
British Catholic Weekly: “there are grounds for reconsidering the Catholic Church’s present position on abortion”
Cure Cancer By Playing Games?
This is a bit novel: games with real-life purposes and applications. A team of biologists have created a game called Fold It (at the equally clever domain name fold.it). David Baker, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at the University of Washington, designed a game that uses human intuition about puzzle solving to help predict [...]
Life Center Information
My daughter asked that I share information about a local pregnancy counseling center with the Catholic Dads readers. She has pulled together from a project she worked on as part of her 8th grade religion class. I told her I would if it was something that would be appropriate to this venue. I think she [...]
A Different Way To Look At Earth Day
It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity. America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away – After America, There is No Place to Go” Next to religious and inspirational stories, this is one of the [...]
Vindication of Obama’s Foes – the Defenders of Life & Freedom.
After the passage of ‘Obamacare’, the protests continued from the Church who opposes the federal funding of abortion and the Tea Partiers who resist the government take-over of the health care industry. That was met with slander and libel from the media who went after the Pope himself accusing him of ‘touching boys’. The Tea partiers were demonized as yelling [...]
Cost of Catholicism
Rolled up to my neighborhood Catholic pharmacy this week only to be greeted with this ominous sign. “Divine Mercy Care, the parent organization of the DMC Pharmacy announces that the DMC Pharmacy will close permanently effective 6:00 p.m. March 4, 2010 due to financial difficulties.” So Divine Mercy Care and Tepeyac will continue to exist [...]
Two Approaches To Abortion With RU-486
You knew it was coming. You hoped it wasn’t, but in a society as debauched as ours, it is hardly surprising. [ABCNews] Angie Jackson says nothing is off-limits on Twitter, not even the details of her abortion [to] chronicle her experience taking RU-486, commonly known as the abortion pill, in an attempt to “demystify” abortion [...]
The Eucharist as the Way to Change the Culture of Death
Over the past several months, I have been planning a Respect Life Youth Rally for the youth of the Diocese of St. Petersburg. It has been a labor of love. Tonight, at the rally, as a part of the prayer service which includes Eucharistic Adoration, I will be giving a reflection. Below is that reflection [...]