Potter and Clay
Abba, Abba Father. You are the potter; we are the clay, the Work of Your hands . . . That is the beginning of a song I remember singing often at morning Mass when I was an 8th grader in parochial school. You probably recall the hymnal; it was ubiquitous in the early...
Vita Institute Recap
I promised to tell you more about the Vita Institute, and this post will be a start. I planned to write everything up as soon as I came home, but as I came down with COVID almost as soon as I returned, I did not have the energy for anything extra. I’m going to...
Pro-Life Profile: Gwendolyn Loop
Pro-life Profile is a new series I will be publishing regularly. These brief interviews will highlight pro-life leaders in order to dispel the preconceptions that predominate in the mainstream press and the minds of pro-choice people. I’ll begin with my Vita...
Pro-life Profile: Herb Geraghty
Pro-life Profile is a new series I plan to publish regularly. These brief interviews will highlight pro-life leaders in order to dispel the preconceptions that predominate in the mainstream press and the minds of pro-choice people. I’ll begin with my Vita...
What I Read in June
I really thought I had completed six books this month. But unless I completely forgot one, it looks like I missed my goal. To be fair, it’s been a crazy month! My first read was completed at the tail end of our vacation, after I picked it up at a cool used...
What Are Your Idols?
We may not be worshipping golden statues or sacrificing people to Baal nowadays, but don’t we let attractive worldly things come between us and God? Perhaps it’s money, or power, or romance, or status, or even being right instead of being kind. You alone know what...
Three Things I Learned at the Vita Institute
I had quite an adventure last week. Four flights. An unprecedented heat wave. Almost 133,000 steps. Close to 20 lectures by experts in their fields. About 50 new friends. And last but not least, a Covid infection! Thankfully, I picked up a lot more than Covid at the...
What I Read in May
This month’s reads are primarily fiction, as befits the beginning of summer! I just made it to my goal, finishing book six while visiting my husband’s family in Baltimore. A couple of these books were provided to me for free in exchange for my honest...
My Favorite Reads of 2021
Since I had a reading goal for the entirety of 2021, I thought it would be fun to do a round up post of the top ten books out of the 76 books I finished. For the most part, I am excluding old favorites which I re-read from the list. The inclusion of a book on this...
Pink Salt Riot
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Life in Every Limb on Facebook
"The question of when human life begins has been answered in a variety of ways by different religious and philosophical traditions throughout the ages, leading many to conclude the question cannot be definitively answered. Yet what does science tell us about when life begins?"
A Scientific View of When Life Begins - Charlotte Lozier Institute
lozierinstitute.org
In this paper, Dr. Maureen Condic examines scientific evidence for the point at which it is evident that human life begins.
This is a really incredible list that clearly took a lot of hard work. I am proud to say that the most recent addition to the list came from my last Pro-Life Profile post!
The Ultimate List of Catholic-Friendly Charities & Nonprofits 2022 - Victoria Everleigh
victoriaeverleigh.com
Your ultimate guide to the best Catholic-friendly charities and nonprofits you can feel good about donating to.
"Suffering and sorrow are a part of life in this fallen world.![]()
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But while we are waiting for this redemption, how do we handle this experience of sorrow?"
You Need to Read these 5 Remedies for Sorrow from St. Thomas Aquinas
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"Our pleas on behalf of the unborn have fallen on deaf ears. While we are still very much their advocates, our tactics need to change. We need to build bridges with women and prochoice advocates who fear a world without abortion. We need to change the discussion. We need to start by asking a new question.![]()
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The real question we need to be asking is the question that is missing from the abortion debate: is abortion good for women?"
The One Question Missing from the Abortion Debate
www.faithandbioethics.com
The debate over the value of fetal human life is gridlocked. Here's what we need to be asking instead.
"[I]t’s also possible that the default to abortion as the solution to an unplanned pregnancy actually discourages other adaptations that would make American life friendlier to women. As Erika Bachiochi wrote recently in National Review, if our society assumes that “abortion is what enables women to participate in the workplace,” then corporations may prefer the abortion default to more substantial accommodations like flexible work schedules and better pay for part-time jobs — relying on the logic of abortion rights, in other words, as a reason not to adapt to the realities of childbearing and motherhood."
Opinion | The Case Against Abortion
www.nytimes.com
Making the argument that lies behind the constitutional debate.
