- St Peter Damien [2/21]
- National Marriage Week [till 2/14] & World Marriage Day [2/12]
- Four Musts that Make a Catholic Marriage (John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic Answers, 2/7/23)
- Getting People to Choose to Get Married (John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., N. C. Register, 2/7/23)
- The Marriage/Parenthood Disconnect (John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Crisis Magazine, 2/7/23)
- Christian pastor arrested for making 'homophobic statements' after preaching from the Bible says he was treated 'shamefully' - and was 'doing what my job description says' (DailyMail, 4/28/21)
- Catholic Medical Teaching and the World Day of the Sick (2/11/22)
- Catholic Medical Ethics: Respect for the Sanctity of Life (Catholic Stand, 9/30/21)
- Priest charged for praying for free speech in U.K. abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’ (Catholic News Agency, 2/10/23)
- Policing Thought Crime Should Have No Place in the U.K. (Newsweek, 1/24/23)
- Slaughter of Nigerian Catholics going ignored! (2/9/23)
"Parts of the United Kingdom are now policing thought crimes. This is happening under a series of local ordinances that ban prayer, including silent prayer, in the vicinity of abortion facilities. Don't believe it? Recent cases have confirmed that you can be interrogated, arrested, fined, and even face a prison sentence for the act of praying in the privacy of your own mind.
"First came the arrest of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce....for directing her thoughts to God on the issue of abortion, she was arrested, and now could be tried and convicted of a crime....
"Now, Adam Smith-Connor similarly has been fined for breaching a Bournemouth, England, 'buffer zone' order. Adam stood within the zone, on the public street, praying in silence for the baby—a son—he had lost to abortion years ago....
"the order that he is accused of violating also prohibits genuflecting, sprinkling holy water on the ground, or the crossing of oneself, among other activities.
"Nobody benefits when a free state voluntarily relinquishes the essential attributes of freedom."
- Explainer: The Debt Ceiling and Catholic Social Teaching (CatholicVote org, 2/8/23)
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"Pope Benedict XVI identified high levels of both individual and national debt with a grave moral disorder.
The willingness of nations to take on massive debt demonstrates a 'practical atheism' that lives 'at the expense of future generations,' he wrote. This is a moral failure to practice solidarity with our posterity....
His warnings, grounded in the social teaching of the Catholic Church, should inspire American lawmakers as they confront the current debt ceiling and consider solutions."
- The Gospel of Architecture (First Things, 2/7/23)
Some devices promoted as "contraceptives" can actually work as "abortifacients"!They can cause early abortions, interfering with the implantation of a fertilized egg (or later)!
Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)
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