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It was inevitable, but it’s still sad. No, not the death and funeral of pop star Michael Jackson—but the increased funding for embryonic stem cell research that (coincidentally I’m sure) has been forced off the front page.
Only those stem cells derived from tiny babies whose parents created—and then rejected—them can be used under the new guidelines—the so-called “excess embryos.” Also included are lines created under other circumstances that fit “the spirit” of this new requirement. Whatever that means.
We are adding an extra day to this hotline to get us through the Nov. 4 elections and we will include our observations on Wednesday’s Action News. Meanwhile, pray!
We have never seen so much ecclesiastical involvement in an election as there is in this one. While not mentioning candidates by name, the Church Hierarchy has made it clear that candidates in either or any party who support abortion cannot be voted for by practicing Catholics, without those Catholics incurring guilt (see, for example, what Bishop Martino and Cardinal George have written). [Continue reading ...]
I would like to ask for your prayers for two priests in the diocese of Peoria, Illinois. Being a priest is such a hard job to begin with. Then, instead of taking the easy path and only preaching homilies on “safe” topics, these two priests spoke about abortion.
Our good friend Jill Stanek draws our attention to a story—encouraging, although biased—in the Washington Post on the new growing phenomenon [Continue reading ...]
Recent Pro-Life Action League Truth Tours and some long and intense discussions with other pro-life activists reaffirm and make more evident to me that pro-lifers must adopt the use of graphic pictures as a major, perhaps the major weapon we must use to bring an end to abortion in America.
You may remember a recent hotline where we talked about Monica Miller’s astonishing find of aborted babies and confidential patient records in the dumpsters at an abortion clinic in suburban Detroit run by notorious abortionist Alberto Hodari.
Credit should be given where credit is due, and credit is due to the Los Angeles Times for its article on Friday chronicling some astonishing horrors having taken place in a chain of abortion clinics in Southern California managed by one Bertha Bugarin.
Congressman Henry J. Hyde of Illinois is dead. The man who became famous as a pro-life leader for his sponsorship of the 1976 Hyde Amendment that cut off most federal funding of abortions, died at 2:30 a.m. Thursday after suffering ill health for the past year.
We have to thank Our Sunday Visitor for the Thanksgiving prayer the Scheidlers, all 32 of us around the family table, will be saying at our Thanksgiving Day meal in the old Scheidler home.
The prayer is as follows:
Lord, we thank you for the goodness of our people and for the spirit of justice that fills this nation. We thank you for the beauty and fullness of the land and the challenge of our cities. We thank you for our work and our rest, for one another and for our homes. We thank you Lord (here each member of the family who wishes to mention a particular good he or she is especially thankful for). For all that we have spoken and for all that we keep in our hearts, accept our thanksgiving on this day. We pray and give thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thursday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 Walter Krawiec and I meet at the Albany Medical Center on Elston Ave. and Cicero in Chicago to pray for the babies being killed inside that abortuary as well as for the killers. The two of us pray while sidewalk counselors talk to the women coming for abortions. We do this because someone has to do it, and because we believe God wants us to do it.