Embrace Life (A Romantic Video)

A Bold Return To The Unique

Where could one expect, a priori, a more intensive dialogue throughout history than one between the "old" and the "new" Covenant? Real dialogue takes place where the issues are difficult and the results neither simple nor easy.

Pure, unmediated faith: this alone is life.

More on Obama Stem Cell Deception

And duplicity. This is morally egregious.
The details are here (a good read).

Politics in Science: Science in Politics: Politics in Science

Everyone lies: but these lies are about human lives.
Read this for background.

Even better: look at this.
Then go to this site: Stem Cell Research news.

Urban Homesteading

It can be done:

So where do you go for answers? See here for a start.

Imagine the Potential

The Search for Long Life

Augustine said: "Wicked persons are allowed to go on living so that they may be reformed, or so that by means of their wickedness the virtuous may be put to the test."

Jerome said: "The shortness of this life is the penalty for people's sins. With all your might, hate what the world loves. Be dead to the world and let the world be dead to you. During your life despise what you cannot possess after your death."

Isidore said: "Only in this life can you do good. What is awaiting you in the future life is not the opportunity of doing good but the reward of having done it."

The Secret World of Late-term Eugenic Abortions

This is what we are becoming, aborting viable fetuses because they will not be physically perfect; and, the UK government wishes to keep it all under wraps. From the story:

It centres on mothers who opt for termination because their unborn babies have been diagnosed with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate.

Doctors say such conditions can usually be corrected by surgery. The Information Commissioner has ordered the release of the figures, but the Department of Health is resisting, claiming that disclosing the data could lead to women who have late abortions being identified.

While abortion is only legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if carried out on social grounds, "Ground E" of the 1967 Abortion Act makes it legal to abort a foetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality, right up to birth. There are continuing concerns that the law is being flouted to weed out "less than perfect" babies.

Prof Stuart Campbell, the leading obstetrician whose 3D-scan images of babies "walking in the womb" at 12 weeks led to calls for a lowering of the 24-week limit for social abortion, said last night: "It is a disgraceful situation for this data to be suppressed." This is not about whether one agrees with abortion. These statistics used to be published, now they are being withheld. Transparency is the essence of medicine. If we don't have that, all sorts of wrongdoing can go on. I am not saying that using abortion is doing wrong, but we need to see the data in order to understand what is happening."

No, we must never say that something is wrong. No, no, no: Can't have that. We are infected with terminal nonjudgmentalism. And so we lamely claim that "transparency" is the answer to everything. But something is very wrong, Professor. And I can tell you precisely what it is; a collapse in our capacity to love.

BTW: did you note the language? One has a "right" to abort a fetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality; not, one which has a risk of serious physical or mental abnormality? Can any level be sufficient? It appears so . . . club foot . . . !?!

Induced Abortions for Oregonians

In 2003: 12,622
In 2004: 11,443
In 2005: 11,602
In 2006: 12,246
In 2007: 11,663

Induced abortion is the intentional killing of innocent human life. Oregonians chose to intentionally kill *at least* (the data is voluntarily reported) 59,576 innocent human beings over the past 5 years, excluding 2008.

A quick scan indicates the majority of these elective killings were chosen by women between the ages of 20-24, with the next highest rate of killing elected by 25-29 year old adults. A vast majority are never-married, non-Hispanic whites.

Adult white women are the mass murderers of our time.

Freedom of choice: doesn't it make you proud?

I wonder how many of these induced killings occurred at Catholic health care facilities? Anyone want to review the data? How about tubal ligation's or IVF procedures?

Life

When does it begin?

Held Accountable

My dear Catholic pro-life friends who voted for Obama, insisting an Obama presidency would be better for the unborn and would reduce abortion: you will be held accountable. In four years, it will be your responsibility to prove to the rest of us that your faith in Obama was not misplaced. We will not forget: we will hold you to it. I pray you will be successful.

Just Say No: Obamabortion

Just Take a Look

Really, I invite you: just look.
But look carefully.

Constitution Party On the Republican Party On Abortion

"The Republican Party, when it comes to the life issue, is all rhetoric."

Life and Death

Life: The More You Know

For the first time, it is possible to actually watch the initial 24-hours of the life of an embryo at the cellular level. With a newly developed microscope that uses a sheet of light to scan a living organism from many different dimensions, scientists were able to track the complex cellular organization of a zebrafish embryo as it grows from a single cell to 20,000 cells. Imagine what occurs in a human mother's womb:

What?

Satanic and Disgusting

Whither Catholic Spain?
To be ground up in BLENDERS!
My God, please immanentize the eschaton.

Slogans and Rallying Cries

Yesterday: a controversy over "terminating treatment" versus "letting die";
Today: a controversy over "the right to die" and "assisted suicide";
Tomorrow: a controversy over "the duty to die" and "mercy killing (so-called active euthanasia)".

Common element: a supposed controversy between "human dignity" and "the sanctity of human life". Why accept that human dignity and sanctity of human life are incompatible? I think, with Leon Kass, that when rightly understood they go hand-in-hand.

So what exactly is meant by "human dignity" and "the sanctity of human life"? Better ask ourselves these questions: I hope each of us spends time trying to educate ourselves and one another regarding the entangled complexities since our speech, acts, votes, etc. regarding such pertain to our moral character and ultimate fate.

Children Are Like Parasites

This . . .


And this . . .


Lead to this . . .


And this . . .

But not always.
Parents know what I mean.