A California company is developing a new procedure, known as xenotransplantation, which involves the removal of organs from aborted babies and transplanting them into rats where they can be grown and later harvested for use in humans.
We are sharing the urgent prayer request below from EWTN's Facebook page:
Urgent prayer request from Sister Monica, Daughter of Charity in Paris: "Members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Syria were kidnapped, along with their wives and children. The children were isolated and put into cages. Adults who do not deny their faith will be decapitated, and their children burned alive in the cages. Let us remain fervently united in prayer, and have as our intention the welfare of all brothers and sisters in our Christian faith who are being held hostage. Mother Mary, please console them, and protect them all from harm! O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." EWTN Prayer Warriors, please share this with everyone you know.
In a report sure to bring heartache to many a carefree cohabiting couple, a new study has found that the key to relationship success is in making the decision to marry before starting a family.
Ceiling of Sistine chapelThe Vatican is confirming that is has refused to pay a ransom demanded for two letters written by Michelangelo that were stolen from the archives 18 years ago.
Moments ago, the Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reconsider its ruling that denied a Catholic university the freedom to follow its faith.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA 27 year-old single gay man who was impatient to become a father was able to produce a son by resorting to an anonymous donor and his 45 year-old mother who agreed to carry the child to term.
Carlotta SkladowskaA Michigan woman had no idea that Planet Fitness gyms have a “no judgment” policy regarding the transgendered until the day a man dressed as a woman walked into the women’s locker room – and when she complained, they revoked her membership!
A religious wrote to ask if we know anything about Chinese decorative knots. “They are red, and come in various designs and I believe go back hundreds if not thousands of years. I've read they can signify different things like luck, romance, love, etc. We have received, from a Chinese Priest, holy images of Our Lord and Our Lady which are decorated with these knots. Is there anything to be concerned about there? Should we remove the decorations?”
