Happy Mother’s Day!

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The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal. –Alice von Hildebrand God bless all of you mothers out there – biological, adoptive, spiritual – and thank you for choosing life, love and maternity in a world which tends to shun all three. Mary, our Mother, Mother of God and the Queen of all mothers, we love you! … Read More

Santorum: Daughter w/ Trisomy 18 “Worth Every Tear”

ChelseaDisabled, Embryo Screening, Eugenics, Love1 Comment

Former PA Sen. Rick Santorum has a moving piece int he Philadelphia Enquirer honoring the second birthday of his daughter Bella: ‘Incompatible with life.” The doctor’s words kept echoing in my head as I held my sobbing wife, Karen, just four days after the birth of our eighth child, Isabella Maria. Bella was born with three No. 18 chromosomes, rather … Read More

“Babies” to Premier this Weekend! *Updated

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Oh, the cuteness of babies! The movie many pro-lifers have been anxious to see is finally coming out this weekend – just in time for Mother’s Day! It’s only a limited release so I was excited to find out that it will be playing at a movie theater near me. I’ll be going with my sister to see it on … Read More

Confessions of a Lazy Pro-Life Blogger

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Dear readers, I know I haven’t been totally neglecting to feed the blog monster lately. But over the past week there have been several significant stories/articles that have caught my eye that I have wanted to, but failed to share with you here. I wish I had a better excuse, but unfortunately I can’t blame it on anything other than … Read More

TOB Tuesday: Hope!

ChelseaCelibacy, Theology of the Body, TOB Tuesday2 Comments

Relying on the same disposition of the personal subject, thanks to which man fully finds himself through a sincere gift of self (Gaudium et Spes, 24:3), man (male and female) is able to choose the personal gift of self to another person in the conjugal covenant, in which they become “one flesh,” and he is able to renounce freely such … Read More

This Month Pray the Rosary for Priests!

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The people behind the widely popular “May Feelings” videos that encourage the recitation of the holy rosary have a new video out urging young people to pray for priests:

Food: We’ve Got Plenty of It

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I don’t know if it’s just because my parents have worked in the ag world for the last 25-30 years or what, but I think this is my favorite of the Population Research Institute’s POP 101 videos, so far (h/t American Papist): This video reminds me of a Penn and Teller piece (language warning) on Norman Borlaug who used ag … Read More

Cute Baby Blogging

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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Here are some recent pictures of my youngest cousins. The first two are Abi (short for Abigail) and her brother Charlie and the last one is Gabriel: