HHS’s About-Face on Religious Liberty By John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris According to the records, in Fiscal Year 2018 the U.S. Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office received over a thousand complaints, alleging conscience violations or religious discrimination. That’s significantly more than in any year recorded under the previous presidential administration. One complaint …
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By Marie K. MacPherson Editor’s note. This first appeared at Lutherans for Life. “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, …
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By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through August 27. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. Editor’s note. …
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Abortion is now a perverse kind of “sacrament most holy” By Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia. Editor’s note. Last night was the second night of the second round of debates among the 20 pro-abortion Democrats running for their party’s nomination for president. We’ll write a few words later today which I hope …
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By Archbishop Charles Chaput Editor’s note. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., is the Archbishop of Philadelphia. This is his weekly column. Speaking at the University of Notre Dame in October 2016, just a few weeks before a national election that seemed sure to put a second Clinton in the White House, I noted that [Q]uite …
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– Archbishop Joseph Naumann, head of the Bishops’ Committee on Pro-life Activities By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Archbishop Naumann is a long-time friend of the pro-life movement who spoke at the 2018 National Right to Life Convention. (If you have not registered for the July 4-5 convention in Charleston, South Carolina, please do immediately at …
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By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Some thoughts the day before Good Friday and three days before Easter… People of many different faiths…and of no faith at all…are attracted to the pro-life movement because it stands for truth that does not change, justice for those who cannot win it for themselves, and …
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By Dave Andrusko The leadership of the Catholic Church in Illinois held a press conference Thursday at the state Capitol in Springfield to blast a bundle of abortion-related bills in the General Assembly as “dangerous” and “mounting challenges to human dignity.” “One measure would repeal a law mandating a minor notify her parent or guardian …
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By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. In light of President Trump great remarks Tuesday night in the State of the Union Address and his additional pro-life statements made at this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, I am reposting the following which ran in February 5, 2010. The setting was once again the National Prayer Breakfast. Hillary Clinton …
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By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation “As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When we think back on the history of social movements, the clergy have played an important role. We think of the soaring words of …
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By Marie Smith, Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI) Pope Francis emphasized the need to protect unborn children from abortion, calling abortion “a grave problem” that undermines the foundation for “the building of justice, compromising the correct solution of any other human and social issue.” In remarks to the Italian Pro-Life Movement on the occasion …
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By Rev. Paul Stallsworth Editor’s note. Rev. Stallsworth is editor of LifeWatch, “A Quarterly Newsletter for United Methodists.” This is excerpted from a post that appeared in the most recent newsletter. He has spoken at numerous National Right to Life conventions. Some United Methodists, according to this editor’s keenest observations (?!), do not believe that …
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