CNA—Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday amplified claims by several news outlets that a woman has died as the result of pro-life laws. But a doctor says that the Georgia woman, Amber Thurman, died because of the abortion pill and medical malpractice. ProPublica’s report claimed that Georgia’s restrictions on abortion delayed access to medical care,…
If you don’t think Catholics don’t know that the issue of abortion (that is, the killing of innocent, defenseless life — which in California includes up to one month AFTER BIRTH), doesn’t matter as a Catholic, think again. How do we know? Because Catholics who support major pro-abortion candidates (such as Harris-Walz), purposefully downplay the…
CNA—A study by the pro-life group Students for Life of America (SFLA) identified dozens of U.S. Christian colleges and universities, including multiple Catholic institutions, maintaining “some type of relationship” with the abortion industry, including the abortion giant Planned Parenthood. SFLA’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement said in its 2024 Christian Schools Project report that 17…
CNA—A council of Knights of Columbus in Virginia has received a religious freedom award after it won a dispute earlier this year with the government over celebrating Mass at a federal cemetery. The First Liberty Institute awarded the Knights of Columbus Council 694 its Philip B. Onderdonk Jr. Religious Liberty Award in recognition of the…
At last night’s Presidential Debate, “fact checker” Linsey Davis was completely wrong about Trump’s claim that some states allowed abortion after birth. As viewed on television and as reported many places, including the Boston Globe (boston.com), in an article published September 11, 2024, and titled “Tell Us: Who do you think won the Presidential Debate?”…
Even though considering many of life’s important questions have been raging now for more than 52 years, there seem to be more questions today than answers regarding human life! To help understand how the John Paul II Life and Family Center (JPII Life Center) works with people of ALL beliefs to understand the beauty and…
A Loss of Trust. Bombarded recently by social media and the print media for decades, at least three generations of American youth have been fed information they could not rely on as correct or true. That bombarded information has become embedded in their brains and they have accepted it as correct and true. Particularly over…
CNA—Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a Japanese nun whose purported visions of the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Akita included stark warnings for humanity and instructions to pray the rosary and repent of sin, died Aug. 15 at age 93. A parish priest in Akita, Japan, confirmed to CNA by phone that Sasagawa…
CNA—The top organization that provides medical guidance to U.S. plastic surgeons released a statement calling for more evidence-based studies on the efficacy of “gender-affirming” surgery for adolescents, according to Manhattan Institute fellow and pediatric gender medicine expert Leor Sapir. “Considerable uncertainty” The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) , which represents 92% of all board-certified…
Dr. Päivi Räsänen is a medical doctor who now has been a Member of the Finnish Parliament since 1995. From 2004 to 2015, Räsänen was the chairwoman of the Finnish Christian Democrats and served for four years as the Minister of the Interior of Finland between 2011-2015. As the Minister of the Interior, Räsänen was…
VNN—A volleyball player left partially paralyzed by a transgender opponent has slammed the Olympics over its boxing controversy. Payton McNabb was 17 when a ball spiked by a trans opponent with force struck her in the face, threw her to the ground, and shut off her consciousness. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, McNabb…
CNA—Elon Musk, the CEO of X and SpaceX and one of the richest men in the world, announced that he will move both multibillion-dollar companies out of California because he opposes a new law that hides information from parents about their child’s gender identity. The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, prohibits school…
VN—The Vatican Secretary of State is in Ukraine from 19 – 24 July. The cardinal is to preside over Mass at the Marian Shrine of Berdychiv for the concluding celebration of the pilgrimage of Ukrainian Latin Rite Catholics. The visit of the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to Ukraine, starting on Friday, July 19,…
July 17, 2024—Today the National Eucharistic Congress comes together at Lucas Oil stadium, Indianapolis, where the pilgrimage from the four corners across the United States of America converge! There are crowds of pilgrims lining up to enter the stadium to witness a Eucharistic revival, a historic moment in the life of the Church that took…
Let me introduce you to Carlos Polo. Carlos, who heads the Latin American office of the Population Research Institute and who has dedicated his life to the pro-life cause. As a consequence, he has been viciously attacked, continually persecuted, and even subjected to lawsuits by allies of Planned Parenthood. The Blessing of the beatitude of…
CNA—A Christian employee has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Fire Department in which he alleges he was subjected to “retaliation” and “religious discrimination” for refusing to raise a well-known Pride theme flag while he was working. A veteran county employee, Captain Jeffrey Little alleges that the fire department violated his religious freedom…
CNA—Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by “explicitly communist” outside forces. “There is an instrumentalization of what’s going on in Gaza to advance an agenda,” he said. “And that is to deconstruct…
CNA—“The good makes no noise,” St. Francis de Sales would say of Lille’s candlelight Mass. Indeed, while France regularly shows itself to be at the forefront of the de-Christianization of the West and recently made headlines for its constitutionalization of abortion, the embers of Christian renewal are already igniting — quietly yet powerfully — on…
The year was 1891. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution sweeping the Western world at the time, radical changes were taking place in society regarding working conditions, property ownership, government responsibility vs. individual responsibility, and most fundamentally regarding the critical importance of recognizing the dignity of each individual human person. Looking at these social…
CNA—A pro-life Catholic lawmaker in the Nebraska Legislature is switching his party registration from Democrat to Republican because of the Democratic Party’s staunch support of abortion. Sen. Mike McDonnell, who had been a registered Democrat for 40 years before this week, said in a news conference that his party change was caused by the Democratic…
