Silly, Happy Baby Blogging

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I made this video, featuring my friend’s son Caleb, on my iPhone using Silent Film Director app. How cute is he??!

Two Lives Saved! Thanks for Your Prayers

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Thanks for all your birthday comments and prayers for the 18 mothers scheduled for abortions at our local Planned Parenthood. I was able to spend a little bit of time praying at the facility last night with a group of pro-lifers who pray there every week and I just got word that at least two of the mothers did end … Read More

A Prayer for You, Dear Readers

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May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will. Through Jesus Christ may he carry out in you all that is pleasing to him. To Christ be glory forever! … Read More

Cute Baby Chelsea Blogging!

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This is what I looked like 29 years ago today. Kinda scary actually. I think I look much cuter now. 😉

A Birthday Request

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Dear readers, today is my birthday and on this day 18 mothers are scheduled to have their unborn children killed at the Planned Parenthood in Columbia, MO – just 25 miles from my home. A pretty unsettling thought as I celebrate the gift of my own life. If you want to give me a great birthday present, please say a … Read More

Fr. Barron comments on The “Two Minus One Pregnancy”

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Fr. Robert Barron comments on last month’s NYTimes piece about a woman who chose to kill one of the healthy unborn twins she conceived via IVF: My comments here. Also recommended: Rebecca Taylor’s post How Twins became Endangered

TOB Tues: A Risk Worth Taking

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For today’s TOB Tuesday, I chose this passage from Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II’s Theology of the Body because, well, I’m kind of feelin’ it a little bit right now: It’s true, of course, that everyone who loves sooner or later gets hurt. Yet this very risk of pain has a positive side: By taking us out of … Read More

Marriage Advice from St. John Chrysostom

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Today is the feast of St. John Chrysostom. I quite like this advice he gives to the men-folk: young husbands should say to their wives: “I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with … Read More

Life: Respect It. Protect It.

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Lovely ad from Virtue Media commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01: Transcript: “Over the years humanity has made terrible mistakes. People were treated as less than human, even killed … because they were a different skin color, because they were a different faith…because they were unplanned, unknown and helpless. But over time we are slowly learning … Read More

Anonymous Donor Daddies, The Kids Aren’t Alright

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The whole IVF/artificial insemination social experiment has been a process of putting the desires of adults over the best interest of children. Latest case in point: this week, the New York Times reported that the grossly under-regulated and greedy fertility industry has been allowing dozens of women to use the sperm of the same donor. At least one man has … Read More