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Two marchers for Life – a mother and a daughter. First, the daughter, from the West Coast March for Life: It was pretty interesting.  There were a LOT of pro-life marchers …  Itseemed like everyone else walking was Christian.  That probablyshouldn’t have surprised me as much as it did, but I guess I neverthought of…

But then I saw that they recommended one of my books in their DVC section. What a fantastic site! Or…not. It’s "Life4Seekers", an outreach of the UK RC Church of England and Wales, and, in the end, it makes you think of nothing else but a bunch of people sitting around a table trying to…

The post below has been updated – lesson: Don’t believe the Times UK, especially if the byline is "Richard Owen."

The NRO Editors The Court would be perfectly justified in concluding that its attempts to micromanage abortion policy have failed, in regarding this failure as an indictment of its pretensions to have any special expertise or authority to do so, and in scrapping Roe. In Casey, the Court argued that many people have relied on…

The WSJ continues its interest in matteres religious, examing the role of the Legionaries of Christ in Mexican society: The Legion’s close ties with the elite are most evident in Monterrey, a city of four million that has long been dominated by businessmen in the so-called Group of Ten. For decades, Jesuits played a major…

with the day’s events over at After Abortion. They are liveblogging and posting up a storm. Speaking of storms, here’s a column by Chris Weinkopf in the LA Daily News about the makers of the film A Distant Thunder, about which we’ve blogged here a while back: When Northridge residents Deborah and Jonathan Flora join…

Thanks to a commenter, I’m alerted to this interesting story: Shantigarh Requiem for the Unborn composed by John Bonaduce (according to the commentor, the brother of Partridge Family Danny Bonaduce – and he does resemble him in the photo here) over the past ten years, and used in the Archdiocese of LA memorial Mass for…

This week’s letter from the pastor of St. Rita’s Catholic Church in north Dallas, TX I have been called a fanatic many times. Some consider me such because of my vocation as a priest. Many more have called me a fanatic because of my focus on the pro-life cause. I’ve prayed and demonstrated before abortion…

An essay by Dr. Robert George, written for and published at Pontifications: Now a supporter of embryo-killing for biomedical research might concede that a human embryo is a human being, yet deny that human beings in the early stages of their development are due full moral respect such that they may not be destroyed to…

Lilnks to news stories about the Walk for LIfe, West Coast.

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