{"id":3378,"date":"2007-01-18T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T10:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/varia-15.html"},"modified":"2007-01-18T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T10:31:01","slug":"varia-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/varia-15.html","title":{"rendered":"Varia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The periodic gathering of links folks have kindly passed on to me:<\/p>\n

At Dawn Eden’s, a post about a crisis up in Toronto: a pregnancy center has been helping a mom carrying twins, one of whom has been diagnosed with spina bifida.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The mother cannot face this challenge and has booked to have a selective abortion of the spina bifida boy on February 2. If she goes through with it, the child will be aborted at 31\u00bd weeks by Caesarean. <\/p>\n

Yes, you read correctly. 31\u00bd weeks. Abortion is legal and unrestricted in Canada until birth.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Aid to Women feels that if they can offer this mom a promise that a family will adopt the handicapped boy, she will carry him to term. They put out a call, including a mass e-mail, and have received interest from two families so far.<\/p>\n

I received the e-mail and phoned the center to ask if they wanted me to put the request with their phone number (they don’t have a Web site) on my blog. Center director Ann Wilson asked that I not publish their phone number, as they are overwhelmed with interest from the e-mail. However, she did request that I ask readers to pray for the mother. While the mother is Christian and opposes abortion, she is very distressed at the thought of giving birth to a severely handicapped child, and she is thinking that perhaps it would be better for both the boy and her if he were killed before birth.<\/p>\n

Please pray for the mother and her unborn child. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are also ways to help financially. Go to Dawn’s for details.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please pray for blogger\/novice Gashwin Gomes’ father who has taken a turn for the worse. Gashwin has returned to India once again and would appreciate your prayers. <\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t forget the West Coast Walk for LIfe, coming up this weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s conversion and ordination have been covered by his local paper – the Greenville News (and remember that Fr. Dwight is a Bob Jones U. grad…)<\/a>  <\/p>\n

Catholic Exchange has started a new page dedicated to "personal productivity" with lots of contributers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fr. Guy of Shouts in the Piazza has an account of an event he attended at the UN at which a new journal, Oasis<\/em>, dedicated to the challenges of living out the Christian faith in Arabic countries, was introduced. Cardinal Scola was one of those present and speaking.<\/a>  <\/p>\n

The website for Oasis. (You may have heard of it before – a few weeks ago it was announced that the General Audience talks would be published in Arabic on the site.)<\/a><\/p>\n

John Allen also reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nasr, the Islamic scholar, argued that the \u201cgreatest stumbling block\u201d in dialogue among Jews, Christians and Muslims is a \u201ctendency to expect everyone on the globe to follow the trajectory of development in the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, Nasr said, many Westerners talk about the need for an \u201cIslamic Reformation.\u201d But, he asked, is that really desirable?<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many people did Oliver Cromwell hang?\u201d he asked provocatively. Instead, Nasr suggested, Westerners should allow Islam to follow \u201cits own internal dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n

{Rabbi} <\/em>Singer was full of praise for Scola, at one point wistfully suggesting that United Nations should have held its own conclave and elected the Italian cardinal as Secretary General.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you could succeed at redirecting its budgetary priorities towards their original purposes,\u201d he said. \u201cThe 192 countries here could learn from what you\u2019ve done [in fostering dialogue]. They\u2019re trying to do it here, mostly to little avail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two blog changes (that I know of):<\/p>\n

Kathy Shaidle of Relapsed Catholic has moved<\/a><\/p>\n

So has Bill Cork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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