Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSAn anonymous 26 year-old woman who is seven weeks pregnant and wants to have an abortion says she’ll keep the baby if pro-lifers donate $1 million to save its life.
Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery in PhiladelphiaThe pro-life community in Philadelphia recently learned that the City of Philadelphia cremated and buried the remains of 47 aborted babies whose remains were found inside the notorious “House of Horrors” abortuary in West Philadelphia owned by convicted murderer, Dr. Kermit Gosnell.
KO writes: “My son-in-law has been playing Dungeons and Dragons with a group of friends for many years. Is this a harmless pastime? Should I be concerned?”
Science has come to the very unpolitically correct conclusion that the reason women usually outlive men is because men have defective DNA that affects both their fertility and longevity, making them the weaker of the two sexes.
This spring saw our backyard filled with new life: families of quail scurrying across the grass, baby doves peeking out from the eaves of our patio, and a special surprise: a little killdeer mother, nesting on the ground in a shallow depression in the gravel out near the children's basketball hoop. They were the first to find her, running in breathless one day to report that we had a new tenant. Sure enough, there she sat, seeming both a bit smug and suspicious on her small speckled eggs. My heart sank a bit, worried about her safety so near the children's play area. Her curious choice of a nest was instinctive, I had recently learned. Only weeks before, another killdeer had made a nest recently on our neighbors property - in the rocks right next to their busy driveway. My neighbor, concerned, had researched the birds and told me about these indignant little mothers. We were both amazed at their unusual habits. They always nest on the ground, sometimes taking turns on the eggs with the father. So slight an indentation do they make on the desert ground, and so like stones are the eggs, that they blend into gravel perfectly. It's good camouflage, but still...this one had no idea what she was in for.
San Luis Potosi CathedralWith little fanfare and no public knowledge, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara and exorcists from all over the country of Mexico gathered in the Cathedral of San Luis Potosi to perform a nation-wide exorcism of the troubled country.
An Italian magazine broke with common journalistic standards by leaking Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change on June 15, even though it is embargoed until June 18.
Shaquille HairstonWhat could have been just another crime statistic turned out to be a powerful faith sharing experience when the prayer of a mugging victim sent his attacker fleeing into the night - without the loot!
