The Butterfly Circus **Updated

ChelseaDisabled12 Comments

Life with a disability is NOT without value, hope, meaning or purpose. You must watch this film! A few sites that I have seen link to this say it’s only a one day preview – so hurry up! You will not be disappointed. “The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.” Film information: At the height of the Great … Read More

Cute Baby Blogging: A Baptism!

ChelseaCute Baby Blogging3 Comments

Yesterday the daughter of a good friend of mine received the grace of baptism: “Yay! No more Original Sin!!”

U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbation to 5-Yr.-Olds, Abortion to 12-Yr.-Olds

ChelseaAbortion, Culture of Death, Sex, Sexuality2 Comments

This is just evil: The U.N.’s Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a 98-page report in June offering a universal lesson plan for kids ranging in age from 5-18, an “informed approach to effective sex, relationships” and HIV education that they say is essential for “all young people.”… The UNESCO report, called “International Guidelines for Sexuality Education,” separates children … Read More

TOB Tuesday: Sex and the Love of Christ and the Church

ChelseaPro Life, Theology of the Body, TOB TuesdayLeave a Comment

At Mass this Sunday we heard from St. Paul: Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is … Read More

Sweet! “In the Womb” Available on YouTube! *Updated

ChelseaFetal Development, videoLeave a Comment

**The videos are no longer available on YouTube due to copyright violation. I didn’t think that would last long… Be sure to check out the products below. Someone put National Geographic’s documentary “In the Womb” on YouTube. I have this on DVD – it’s amazing! Here is part one (h/t LifeSiteNews): The doc. uses both 4-D ultrasound and computer generated … Read More

Bloodmoney: The Truth About Abortion

ChelseaAbortion, video1 Comment

WOW! This looks incredible. The official trailer for Bloodmoney, a documentary on the Business of Abortion: h/t Inside Catholic

My Morning Meditation With St. Gianna

ChelseaLove, Pro Life, SuicideLeave a Comment

I love this mug (and this saint) See what else St. Gianna, who gave up her own life so that he unborn child would live, said about suffering. A related post worth re-visiting: The Paradox of the Cross Find this mug and others like it at Catholic to the Max

Requiescat in Pace, Dr. Lankford

ChelseaDeath, Eternal Life, Pro Life2 Comments

I just got a note that Dr. Lankford, who I told you about the other day, died – peacefully – this morning. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

The Beauty of Human Weakness

ChelseaAssisted Suicide, Disabled, Faith, Hope, Suffering, Suicide12 Comments

In Australia last week, the Supreme Court ruled that 49 year old quadriplegic Christian Rossiter has the “right to die” if he so wishes. The problem is Rossiter is not going to just die, he’s going to starve himself to death by refusing to be nourished with food and fluids through a feeding tube. What is most heart-breaking about this … Read More

Alphonse is “Playing Up the Horrifying Nature of Abortion”

ChelseaAbortion1 Comment

Glad to see this comic – and its message – getting some media coverage. From the Washington Times this Wednesday: Author Matthew Lickona, whose first work was titled “Swimming With Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic,” is playing up the horrifying nature of abortion in a new comic book series in hopes of provoking dialogue about the procedure. The … Read More