Catholic Church

June 4, 2019

Bishop Tobin Attacked for Speaking a Plain Truth, by Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - A few days ago, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence sent out a message that within living memory absolutely no mother or father, liberal or conservative, Christian or Jewish or secular, old or young, would have considered to be controversial. He said, gently, that it was not good for parents to take their children to a so-called “Pride” parade… these are parades to celebrate sexual perversion.

June 3, 2019

The Statistic That Shames Catholic Politicians, by Matthew Schmitz

By Matthew Schmitz, Catholic Herald - If Catholics were barred from public office, our politics might be greatly improved. Such a harsh assessment would be unthinkable if Catholic politicians had identifiably Catholic voting records, but on the whole they do not… In fact, when it comes to defending unborn life, our purportedly Catholic legislators do more evil than good… But how do these Catholic politicians actually vote? In Evangelium Vitae, St John Paul II states that every person has “the inescapable responsibility of choosing to be unconditionally pro-life” and that responsibility for the killing of the unborn falls on “legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws”…

June 3, 2019

Real Talk On Natural Family Planning, by Deanna Johnston

By Deanna Johnston, Catholic East Texas - I became aware of Natural Family Planning (NFP) when I was young; in fact, NFP was an integral part of my family’s return to the Catholic Church. As a child, I remember seeing charts with the baby stickers and the colors. I attended a mother-daughter program once in grade school and again in high school that explained the goodness of God’s design of the male and female bodies and the gift of fertility. Basically, I knew that NFP was a thing, that the Catholic Church liked it, and that at some point I would probably use it too.

June 3, 2019

When Does a Fetus Develop a Heartbeat? by Gail Peterson

By Gail Peterson, Human Life International - Throughout a woman’s pregnancy, her baby undergoes many stages of development in the womb before being born, and among these milestones which indicate life is the fetal heartbeat… Through the use of ultrasounds, modern science can detect the waves of the baby’s heartbeat as early as three weeks after fertilization. Although the child’s organs have not yet fully formed, soon after this three-week mark the heart beats between 105 to 122 times per minute… A fetal heartbeat can be distinguished from the mother’s because it is often much faster than hers.