Last year I told you about The Butterfly Circus, a beautiful film with a beautiful message of hope and the dignity of the human person, which won first prize in the Doorpost Film Project. In the last year The Butterfly Circus has won several other film festival awards and, ironically, Joshua Weigel, writer, director and producer of The Butterfly Circus, … Read More
Poverty is not Solved by Elimitating People
The fourth episode of Population Research Institute‘s popular POP 101 series takes a look at the problem of poverty which is often a reason used by some in favor of population control: Poverty is not solved by eliminating people, but by people helping people. And, when it comes to people, the more we have to help, the better! On a … Read More
Cute Newborn Baby Blogging!
Welcome to the world Matthew Gerard Bradley! Matthew’s mother is a good friend of mine. She making a cute baby, she also makes some very beautiful and creative stationary which you can purchase here. Click on “images” to see samples or visit her blog. When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but … Read More
TOB Tues: Advent and the Angelus
Can you believe we’re halfway through Advent already?! Advent is a time for Christians to prepare for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ – the Word made flesh. Some may wonder what the body and theology have to do with each other, but, according to John Paul II, the fact that theology also includes the body should not be … Read More
Music for Your Monday: How to Handle a Woman
I’ve never seen Camelot, but many thanks to Msgr. Charles Pope for highlighting this delightful little number from the movie in his post advising men How to Handle a Woman – which you should go read after watching this clip: p.s. are you on Facebook? Do you “like” my blog???
Novena Prayer for Life to Our Lady of Guadalupe
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who has been given the title Mother of the Unborn, is in nine days. Oh Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of Life, We honor you as Our Lady of Guadalupe. Thank you for pointing us to Jesus your Son, The only Savior and hope of the world. Renew our hope in him, … Read More
27 Yr. Old Quadriplegic Wants to Die
27 year old Dan Crews was paralyzed in a car accident when he was 3 years old. He is paralyzed from the neck down and though he can speak and eat, his diaphragm muscles cannot move air through his lungs so he must be hooked to a ventilator in order to breathe. He’s lived this way for 24 years. He … Read More
Finding Molly
This is a beautiful, but also heartbreaking story about a man, after about 50 years, reuniting with his sister who was sent away to an institution for physically and mentally disabled children when she was three years old (h/t Creative Minority Report): I’m thankful for the ways in which we have tried to welcome the disabled into society, but has … Read More
Embryos to Get Microscopic “Bar Codes”
As if we needed more evidence that IVF makes human life a commodity. From New Science: Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona have come up with an ingenious solution for keeping track of embryos and egg cells during in vitro fertilisation procedures: microscopic bar codes. These mouse eggs were tagged by injecting microscopic silicon bar codes into their perivitelline … Read More