When will we be able to see like Simeon?

The temple is sacred.
Today’s Sunday readings point out the ongoing significance of the Temple of the Lord in our lives. What is the temple? It is our houses of worship. And it is our bodies.
These temples should be sacred and kept pure …

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A ridiculous assertion by The Des Moines Register

“If men could get pregnant, abortion wouldn’t be controversial in this country. Medication to terminate a pregnancy would be available at every pharmacy. Over the counter. A government historically dominated by men would never contemplate forcing the members of its own gender to carry a pregnancy to term, swollen ankles and all.”
So opines the Des Moines Register in another ode to human abortion.
The premise of the article is more than offensive, it is ridiculous …

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Girl Scouts unofficially promotes an agenda of reproductive rights

Any good journalist fact checks claims, so that’s what I did.
It took me many, many hours and about three month of fact checking of all the content of both web sites’ claims, sad to say, I found they all checked out. Girl Scouts’ own materials the girls read, tax documents, web content, corporate, government, and nongovernmental affiliates and partners were definitely promoting an unofficial agenda of reproductive rights, a redefinition of family.

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Enough with the endless abortion euphemisms

“We hear that abortion is fundamentally about a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. Or abortion is a litmus test for judicial nominees. Or abortion is symptomatic of what’s wrong with the social discourse in America. But none of those things is what abortion really is. Abortion is the intentional killing of unborn children.”
–Jon Bloom in Relentlessly Call Abortion What It Really Is

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How my newspaper covered the March for Life

I was pleasantly surprised by the coverage the Des Moines Register gave the March for Life in the morning’s paper. They ran a piece written by the U.S. Today which covered the top third of page four. The coverage was by and large good, except for two things …

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A tidal wave of love warms Washington D.C.

The temperatures may have been frigid, but the weather was no match for the power of love.
Washington D.C. was invaded by hundreds of thousands people for the March for Life today, the single biggest social justice event of the year …

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