BOOK REVIEW:  Don’t Let Death Steal Your Story

BOOK REVIEW: Don’t Let Death Steal Your Story

WSJ Obituary columnist James R. Hagerty’s book, Yours Truly: An Obituary Writer’s Guide to Telling Your Story, is a thought-provoking and engaging work that explores the importance of crafting our own obituary and telling our own story. Hagerty’s inspiration for writing this book comes from his own experience with his father’s passing. Like many people,…

Read Full Text: Archbishop Cordileone sharply rebukes Marin County DA in St. Junipero Vandals Case: “What You Propose is Not a Punishment that Fits the Crime”

Read Full Text: Archbishop Cordileone sharply rebukes Marin County DA in St. Junipero Vandals Case: “What You Propose is Not a Punishment that Fits the Crime”

In October of 2020, a group of protestors trespassed on Mission San Rafael, a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and desecrated and toppled a beloved statue of St. Junipero Serra. The crime was witnessed by the police, caught on videotape. Five were arrested and charged with felony vandalism. Today in court the…

Canadian parents push back against gay pride flag in Catholic school district; police called

Canadian parents push back against gay pride flag in Catholic school district; police called

CNA—Police were called to maintain order at a Catholic school board meeting in Ontario, Canada, during a discussion about whether the board should fly a gay pride flag at its central office throughout June to support gay pride month. The York Catholic District School Board met Tuesday night to consider the proposal. After hearing two…

Supreme Court allows full access to abortion pill

Supreme Court allows full access to abortion pill

In a nation founded on the principles of Life, Liberty and OPPORTUNITY to pursue Happiness, What are they thinking?! … CNA—An abortion-inducing drug that is used to kill preborn children up to 10 weeks gestation will stay on the market as a legal battle over the pill continues, following a decision Friday by the U.S.…

Dictatorship in Nicaragua confiscates monastery and arrests 20 people during Holy Week

Dictatorship in Nicaragua confiscates monastery and arrests 20 people during Holy Week

CNA—The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has confiscated a cloistered monastery and arrested 20 people for activities related to Holy Week in Nicaragua. The Trappist sisters of Nicaragua (see feature photo), who left the country in February after 22 years of service, reported April 11 that the government…

BOOK REVIEW: The New (Biomedical) Normal

BOOK REVIEW: The New (Biomedical) Normal

During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health authorities—once relatively obscure government agencies—were given unprecedented power to manage citizens’ lives in the name of public safety. Some critics have argued that this situation brought into focus a number of long-standing trends of modernity: trends toward medicalization, scientific rationalism, and state surveillance in liberal societies. Any plausible analysis…

Bringing a Life Monument to the Texas Capitol

Bringing a Life Monument to the Texas Capitol

Can A Dream of a Statue that Recognizes the Dignity of the Human Person Through “Mother and Child” Come True in Today’s America? Some years ago my wife Pat and I were at a Legatus Summit in Florida and on display there were pictures of the beautiful sculptures by internationally known sculptor Timothy Schmalz. We…

BREAKING: Texas federal judge issues ruling in crucial abortion pill case

BREAKING: Texas federal judge issues ruling in crucial abortion pill case

CNA—A federal judge in Texas issued a much anticipated ruling Friday that, if it holds up in court, could take the abortion drug mifepristone off pharmacy shelves due to safety concerns and in doing so prevent over half of the abortions that take place in the country. U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s preliminary ruling found that…

JPII Life Center Launches Two Advisory Boards Award-winning neurosurgeon and distinguished CEO among newest members

JPII Life Center Launches Two Advisory Boards Award-winning neurosurgeon and distinguished CEO among newest members

Dr. Ben Carson, M.D. world renowned neurosurgeon and co-founder of the American Cornerstone Institute and the Institute’s CEO, Andrew Hughes, today became the two newest members of Austin, Texas-based John Paul II Life Center’s Advisory Boards. They join a distinguished group of individuals from across America as members. “We are blessed to have amazing leading…

Draw Your Own Conclusions…. International Women’s Day looks a little different this year

Draw Your Own Conclusions…. International Women’s Day looks a little different this year

I write this as a woman, female, a God-made, parents-helped original… and Catholic. I live, however, in a region where some people, journalists, even a few business professionals, service industry hosts and other leaders and influencers (self-proclaimed and objectively determined) — did I mention news reporters and politicians?!!!! — even clergy from various faiths, tend…

President of Hungary Speaks at Ave Maria University About The Calling of the Christian in Politics

President of Hungary Speaks at Ave Maria University About The Calling of the Christian in Politics

On March 9, 2023, the president of Hungary, Katalin Novák, will deliver a lecture, titled “The Calling of the Christian in Politics: What We Can Achieve,” followed by a Q-and-A with students at Ave Maria University in Florida. (video below) Novák’s lecture focuses on the importance of faith and family. As a devoted Christian, Novák…

Bishop Barron calls out Minnesota’s new abortion law as ‘the worst kind of barbarism’

Bishop Barron calls out Minnesota’s new abortion law as ‘the worst kind of barbarism’

Jan. 31, 2023—Winona-Rochester, Minnesota’s Bishop Robert Barron wastes no time condemning Minnesota’s newly passed abortion law as “the worst kind of barbarism.” “Basically, it eliminates any kind of parental notifications,” Bishop Barron continues, “so a 12-year-old child can get an abortion without even telling her parents about it!” Immediately following Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) signing…

20 attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against abortion pills in their states

20 attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against abortion pills in their states

CNA—As CVS and Walgreens continue to seek federal approval to sell an abortion drug, 20 attorneys general whose states restrict abortion warned the pharmacy chains against fulfilling mail orders within their states. What has FDA approved so far? Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of mifepristone through pharmacies if…

Time-marked March for Life D.C. Video

Time-marked March for Life D.C. Video

Here is the Time-marked video (for faster viewing) of fantastic speakers—all short, impactful remarks— at the 2023 March For Life in D.C.   See time marks below video. Time Marks: (in case you want to fast-forward)  Every presentation is short & impactful. 1:08:04 – Speaker start (previous hour is band music) 1:10:25 – Tameka Walden – …

Need Inspiration, Hope? March For Life 2023 in D.C. Delivers, Largest Human Rights March in History

Need Inspiration, Hope? March For Life 2023 in D.C. Delivers, Largest Human Rights March in History

Jan. 20, 2023—Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, pointed out an undeniable reality; namely, that the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.—now in its 50th year—is the largest human rights march in history. But this year was different.  For the first time in FIFTY YEARS, this annual march at our nation’s capitol took…

No Slowing Down: The first-ever POST-ROE Pro-Life Walks Flourish in 2023—From D.C. to S.F. and More

No Slowing Down: The first-ever POST-ROE Pro-Life Walks Flourish in 2023—From D.C. to S.F. and More

This January 2023, on what would have been the 50th “anniversary” of Roe v. Wade—and just seven short months after the June 24, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning of the infamous Roe v. Wade ruling of January 22, 1973—there was abundant evidence that there’s no slowing down in our nation’s affirmation of unborn innocent…

St. Agnes, Patron Saint of the New Chapter in Building a Culture of Life — (Full Text of Archbishop Cordileone)

St. Agnes, Patron Saint of the New Chapter in Building a Culture of Life — (Full Text of Archbishop Cordileone)

San Francisco, Jan. 21, 2023—Full text of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s homily at newly comissioned Mass for Life which debuted on the Feast of St. Agnes prior he 2023 Walk for Life West Coast. Full text (and video) follows. When the idea first came to me to commission a new Mass of sacred music for…

Pope Francis Criticizes Western Sexual Agenda at the UN

Pope Francis Criticizes Western Sexual Agenda at the UN

NEW YORK, January 13 (C-Fam)— In his annual address to foreign diplomats at the Holy See Pope Francis criticized Western countries and the UN for promoting gender ideology and abortion. He told the ambassadors that education “requires showing integral respect for the person, and for his or her natural physiognomy, and avoiding the imposition of…

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