Roman Catholics here in the Archdiocese of Boston have had the benefit of health care administered according to the teaching of Christ, Our Lord, for 147 years. There is now a very serious threat to its continuance, and that is the reason for this letter.
Religious freedom is a phrase being bandied about today for all the wrong reasons. Not all legal defense teams or media types are causing it, but there is a smattering of confusion about it in the public eye these days.
Having seen an inordinate number of eloquent commentaries delineating the moral evils of the recent United States District Court decision nullifying the will of California voters on Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, I am nonetheless left wondering why none of the commentators was able to connect the dots.
Many years ago, when having a serious conversation about the pro-abortion cartel in America, the jolly Catholic priest with whom I was talking looked at me and, with a serious, Irish face said, “Judie! Come on! God is laughing, why aren’t you?”
The current issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published a fascinating study regarding the various causes of premature birth. Among those causes, Professor Jay D.
President Barack Obama is among the most threatening individuals to have walked this earth in many a year. And his right-hand man, pro-abortion Catholic Joseph Biden, is no better.
I write this column with mixed emotions. With the vote yesterday on a new constitution that would decriminalize child-killing and enshrine bigotry, the beautiful and faith-filled people of Kenya face yet another deadly blow from their government and ours.
We are heartened to read of the most recent statements by Father Michael Rodriguez, parish priest at El Paso, Texas, San Juan Bautista Catholic Church.
Who would have ever guessed that contraception would move to center stage in women’s health and in the political arena in 2010?
“Catholic health care institutions are not to provide abortion services, even based upon the principle of material cooperation. In this context, Catholic health care institutions need to be concerned about the danger of scandal in any association with abortion providers.”
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society urges Congress to support the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 (H.R.3 and S.5) at all levels of the legislative process.
The old adage tells us that silence is golden. But that is far from the truth when this silence results in the promulgation of sin.