Steven Mosher has some good news out of Russia where the average woman can be expected to have as many as seven abortions in her lifetime: Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going even further and banning the procedure itself. The Russian … Read More
Our Bridegroom is Here!
Merry Christmas from sunny South Florida! Like the shepherds and Wise Men before us: ‘May you seek Christ. May you find Christ. May you love Christ.’ (-St. Josemaria) Peace and love to you all!!
Audio: On Our Culture’s Love/Hate Relationship With Babies
Does our culture have a love/hate relationship with babies? Is Captain James T. Kirk captive to the culture of death? And what does Pope Francis mean by an “ecumenism of blood?” I had a good time talking about all of the above on the Mike Allen Show yesterday with the ever-awesome Jason Hall, who is the associate director of the … Read More
Pope Francis, IVF, Wrongful Births and Star Trek: Tune In!
Today I will be on the air again in Lexington, KY, this time with my good friend Jason Hall,to talk about our culture’s love/hate relationship with babies, what Pope Francis means by an ecumenism of blood, and whether our beloved Captain Kirk is captive to the culture of death. Click the image above to tune in to the Mike Allen … Read More
$50 Million Awarded in Wrongful Birth Case
Two weeks ago I told you about a New Zealand couple who won an appeals court ruling in their “wrongful birth” lawsuit. Shortly after publishing that story, a couple in Washington State was awarded $50 million, the state’s largest ever individual award, for a wrongful birth case. Knowing that there was a 50-50 chance that their offspring would be born … Read More
TOB Tues: The Nuptial Meaning and the Freedom of the Gift
“Man…cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself” Gaudium et Spes, 24 Continuing on the theme of the “nuptial meaning of the body” from last week — JP II on the nuptial (spousal) meaning of the body, the freedom of the gift and the very meaning of our existence: The revelation together with the original discovery of … Read More
Star Trek’s Pro-Life Planet
What’s that you say? This blog isn’t geeky enough for you? It needs more Star Trek?? Well, if you insist… This is an interesting exchange from an episode of the original series called The Mark of Gideon. I found it while I was browsing through Msgr. Charles Pope’s YouTube channel the other day. Captain Kirk is talking to Hodin, the … Read More
TOB Tues: The Nuptial Meaning of the Body
One of the central themes of JP II’s Theology of the Body is that the body has a “nuptial meaning.” On his blog, Msgr. Charles Pope gives a brief explanation of the nuptial meaning of the body, specifically as it relates to the priesthood. To speak of the nuptial meaning of the body, means that the very design of our … Read More
Another Wrongful Birth “Victory”
In New Zealand: parents of a child with spina bifida could receive an ACC payout after successfully arguing they were denied the chance to abort their daughter. Doctors missed signs of the defect in the foetus during a 20-week scan. The couple said they would have terminated the pregnancy had they known the daughter, who was born in 2007, had … Read More
To Love at All
To love at all is to be vulnerable. -C.S. Lewis See the original comic here. The full version of the quote, taken from Lewis’s book, The Four Loves, reads “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, … Read More