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Catholic without Apology
By Judie Brown News outlets have reported that Pope Francis is “withdrawing Cardinal Raymond Burke’s Rome residence and salary because he sees him as working against the unity of the Church.” Some media have referred to this as a type of punishment, suggesting without confirmation that the pope has an axe to grind with faithful prelates like Bishop Joseph Strickland and Cardinal Burke. We have...
Light and Dark: What a Difference a Few Inches Makes!
[In January] the world was shocked to hear about the “House of Horrors” discovered at a Philadelphia abortion clinic, where a former doctor [was] accused of murdering one patient and seven infants.
25 Years of Love and Life at the Pope Paul VI Institute
“Suffering is part of saying ‘yes’ to the Lord,” Sue Hilgers said. “We were ignored and ostracized by our community, other doctors and even priests. But our work has been as much of a gift to us as we have hoped it would be to others.”
Joe Scheidler: A Man for All Seasons
It has been said that men of great character are frequently unappreciated until eulogies are read at their funerals.
Planned Parenthood Funding and Catholic Bishops
A different sort of mathematical problem emerges from the title of this piece. What is the common denominator between the nationwide, unified pro-life efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)? The answer is that no such common denominator exists.
Abby Johnson: A Target Among Her Friends?
Recently a controversy exploded as a result of a comment that Abby Johnson made in which she alluded to the fact that certain exceptions—rape, incest and life of the mother—represented a very small percentage of overall abortions.
Building Bridges of Hope
For years, I’ve felt a call to raise awareness of the tragedy of abortion, and to offer hope to those tempted to make that deadly choice and those wounded by doing so.