Jeanie Hannaman

By Robert R. Reilly, Crisis Magazine - ...the world is full of absurdities that defy common sense and reason... On another frontier, those who publicly oppose IVF, (in vitro fertilization) as immoral are subjected to browbeating by those who have had children by this method. They declare that IVF is “pro-family and pro-life” because it produces children. We need to ask these beneficiaries how their other children are doing—the ones in the deep freezers awaiting implantations that will never happen for the simple reason that there are some 5 million of them across the United States. Exactly how “pro-life” is that?

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews - Two Venezuelan cardinals urged citizens to practice “civic resistance” after widespread protests have spread in response to the government’s “evident fraud” in recent national elections... Cardinals Baltazar Porras and Diego Padrón provided a detailed assessment of the state of the nation in Venezuela. The letter is a rare direct ecclesial statement on a nation’s politics and is written in light of the July 28 Venezuelan elections... Highlighting the principle of “non-violence,” the two cardinals nevertheless urged thousands of Venezuelans protesting the elections “to support and sustain just initiatives to confront arbitrariness and disobedience” or practice “civic resistance with ethical and even religious roots.”