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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.
May 31, 2019

The Dictatorship of the Young, by David Masciotra

By David Masciotra, The American Conservative - In “The Disappearance of Childhood”, prophetic social critic Neil Postman wrote that the ubiquity of mass media was robbing children of an essential sense of “wonderment” and dangerously bridging the information divide between them and their parents: As media merge the two worlds, as the tension created by secrets to be unraveled is diminished, the calculus of wonderment changes. Curiosity is replaced by cynicism or, even worse, arrogance. We are left with children who rely not on authoritative adults but on news from nowhere…
May 30, 2019

New Interview, New Revelations Damage Pope’s Credibility, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Yet even that outlandish suggestion is not enough to bring the Pope’s two claims into a workable alignment. Because if Archbishop Vigano had informed him, then even if the Pope somehow forgot, he could not truthfully say that he knew “nothing” about the McCarrick scandal… Archbishop Vigano, not mincing words, made his own position perfectly clear in responding to the new papal interview: “What the Pope said about not knowing anything is a lie.”
May 28, 2019

Fr. Paul D. Scalia: An Inheritance of Peace

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, First Things - A man facing death sets his affairs in order. He makes arrangements so that his heirs will be well provided for upon his death. This is what our Lord does at the Last Supper. Making the final preparations before His Crucifixion, He leaves an inheritance to the Apostles and through them to the entire Church. Thus He gives us the Eucharist, the new commandment of love (the mandatum), the priesthood, etc.

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