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February 14, 2020

Bishop Issues Guide: ‘A Person Cannot Change His or Her Gender,’ Sex-Change is ‘Intrinsically Evil’, by Michael W. Chapman

By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews - To deal with the often confusing and politically charged issue of gender identity and transgenderism, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, head of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., has issued a "pastoral guide" on the topic, which clearly states that "a person cannot change his or her gender" and that sex-reassignment surgery is "a type of mutilation and intrinsically evil."

February 14, 2020

Pro-Life Movement Needs Its Own ‘Seamless Garment’, by Jennifer Roback Morse

By Jennifer Roback Morse, EWTNNews - Committed pro-life activists are often accused of being too focused on abortion: “If you really cared about babies, you would also care about Issue X!”… True, children need many things to survive and thrive, and pro-lifers should work on those issues as well as the abortion issue. But the “Seamless Garment,” as a rhetorical strategy, is often perceived by pro-lifers as a subtle or not-so-subtle attempt to undermine them. All too often, these suspicions are well-founded. So my next statement may surprise you: The pro-life movement needs a Seamless Garment of its own. Let me explain.

February 13, 2020

Amazonia Dreaming, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Querida Amazonia, Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (released yesterday) is, at a first reading, a mostly pleasant surprise. It shows little of the freewheeling radicalism that bulked large – in the synod hall and Vatican gardens, and even on the streets, during the Synod last October. He quotes copiously from his own texts, to be sure, but also from St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. So much so that Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, a powerful voice in current Church debates, has called the Exhortation an effort at reconciliation.

February 13, 2020

2,411 Aborted Babies Who Abortionist Hoarded Finally Given Proper Burial: “May They Have Peace”, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Pro-life advocates gathered Wednesday to mourn for the lives of 2,411 babies who were aborted and then stored in an Indiana abortionist’s garage with complete disregard for their humanity… Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s Office organized the memorial service at Southlawn Cemetery and Palmer Funeral Home in South Bend. Many national and local pro-life leaders attended the graveside service. Their burial is marked with a small headstone that reads, “In memory of the 2,411 precious unborn buried here on Feb. 12, 2020.”