Archives for 2013

This week: If only the president meant his empty words defending life. Would nudity defeat the March for Life media blackout? A touching story of life and love. Hollywood stars again enlighten us (mega-hypocrisy alert, as usual). Peter Kreeft explains where morality comes from. Episcopalians warmly embrace “gay marriage” at their National Cathedral. Father Barron’s Catholicism: The New Evangelization project now underway.

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I could not have said it better myself. Listen to our president. If only he meant those words…

Related: Tom Hoopes piece at CatholicVote.org: We Are the Civil Rights Movement Now.

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January 25th will again mark the annual media blackout of the March for Life rally. A half-million people march and the (blatantly biased, extremely liberal) mass media sees nothing. The march is always completely invisible! (With the possible exception of a handful of counter protesters.)

Matthew Archbold has an interesting tongue-in-cheek solution: Let’s March for Life Naked!!!.

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Newlyweds Jason and Marie Taylor soon knew great joy and great sadness. The parents of premature triplets share their experience on life and love:

Pick-up the story at LifeSiteNews.com.

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Hollywood stars, using their superior intellect, have made a video backing gun control. No surprise there, nor in their hypocrisy. Said same stars profit handsomely in the promotion of gun violence. Here is their video, enhanced with scenes from their “work” interspersed:

(This video is no longer available.)

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Prof. Peter Kreeft explains where morality can not come from and where it does:

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The Episcopal Washington National Cathedral welcomes “gay marriage,” effective immediately. Ironically, the church is also known as the “Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.” I wonder what they would think about that (well, not really, I know what they would think).

The press release says “all weddings at the Cathedral are conducted as Christian marriages in which the couple commits to lifelong faithfulness, love, forbearance, and mutual comfort.” Apparently they have no idea what the sacrament of marriage is.

Fr. Jay Finelli (a/k/a iPadre) produced a podcast on family and marriage that is truly excellent. Listen to it here (starting around 8:15). Father also talks about this topic on his blog (here).

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Father Barron has a sequel to his excellent Catholicism Project. The new work is just getting started. It is called Catholicism: The New Evangelization:

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Some random thoughts or bits of information are worthy of sharing but don’t warrant their own full post. This idea was started by Jennifer Fulwiler at Conversion Diary to address this blogging need. So, some Fridays I too participate when I have accumulated 7 worthy items. Thank you Jen for hosting this project!

This week: New Evangelists Monthly has been launched. A baby literally reaches out from the womb. Planned Parenthood values that baby at $449.15 (average net profit per baby aborted). Cistercian monks build chapel with stones they first used 800 years ago in Spain. Why was Jesus baptized? Loyal pets and their owners’ grave sites. A sweet dog interacts lovingly with a Down syndrome child.

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The inaugural issue of New Evangelists Monthly has launched! Over 30 Catholic bloggers have kindly contributed their best posts to the January issue of this new monthly “meta-magazine.”

In this edition: read about “Protestant jeopardy,” respite, tragedy, sola scriptura, faith and children, baptism, immaculate “misconception,” virginity, myths and God’s mercy. There is more! Art, love, poetry, book reviews, family life, reflections, peace and prayer.

New Evangelists Monthly is created fresh every first Saturday. Visit NewEvangelists.org anytime. More information is available here.

This New Evangelization initiative is powered by the same inlinkz technology that powers 7QTF. 7QTF readers will feel right at home!

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Baby Neveah (Heaven spelled backwards) was born recently by cesarean section. Just prior to being born however, she stuck her hand out of her mother’s womb and grabbed the finger of the doctor.

Some people still refuse to accept that life begins before birth. CNN has a report and video on the story.

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How much is human life worth? With the announcement of last year’s numbers, Planned Parenthood has empirically determined the amount to be $449.15. That is the net operating profit, on average, for killing a child in the womb.

That may not seem like much, but remember that Planned Parenthood is a VOLUME operation. Multiply that by the record 333,964 children that they killed in 2012 and they walk away with a cool $150,000,000. With our radically pro-abortion president, the future looks very bright (for Planned Parenthood, not so much for unborn children). More info on Planned Parenthood’s record abortions and resulting record profit are at LifeSiteNews.

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In 1190, Cistercian monks lived in a beautiful monastery at Santa Maria de Ovila in Spain. That is, until the Spanish government seized it in 1835 for use as barns. Almost 100 years later the property was acquired by William Randolph Hearst who had the chapter house dismantled and shipped to America. His good intentions were not fulfilled and the stones ended-up at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for the next 60 years. Finally in 1992 they were returned to the Cistercians for use in a chapel at their Abbey of New Clairvaux.

More information about the stones is on the Sacred Stones website and blog (be sure to see the beautiful pictures in this piece).

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Why was Jesus, the sinless lamb of God, baptized? Jimmy Akin explains:

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Miguel Guzman died in 2006 and Captain ran away. Captain, his German Shepherd mix, was gone when the family returned from the funeral. When they later visited the grave site, there was Captain guarding his owner’s grave. He has remained there since, refusing to return home.

Similarly, Iozelli Renzo died in 2011. Toldo, his cat, visits his grave every day bringing little gifts.

Captain’s story is here and Toldo’s is here. This story spotted by my friend Tom.

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God doesn’t make mistakes…

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Some random thoughts or bits of information are worthy of sharing but don’t warrant their own full post. This idea was started by Jennifer Fulwiler at Conversion Diary to address this blogging need. So, some Fridays I too participate when I have accumulated 7 worthy items. Thank you Jen for hosting this project!