Archive for January, 2011
Celebrating Roe: The “Discussion”
Legalizing abortion has not put an end to the butchery. Of course, such an argument only has merit when one considers the lives of over 50,000,000 unborn children to be of equal value to the lives lost as a result of illegal abortion – a number I would suspect is somewhat smaller. Both scenarios are tragic. The question is, which is more tragic?
Celebrating Roe: The Abortion Diaries
The film, “The Abortion Diaries,” presented the stories of twelve women discussing their abortions in a dinner party setting designed to be both “intimate and at times surprisingly funny.” At least that’s the claim of the event flyer. The film was intimate. I’m just not sure how funny it was. You can watch an excerpt from the 30 minute film below [...]
Celebrating Roe
This past Wednesday, the University of Southern Maine hosted an event billed as “Roe at 38: A Discussion and Film.” The discussion was attended by a small crowd of approximately 60 or so, most of them abortion advocates with a smaller number of anti-abortion (pro-life, if you choose) advocates dispersed throughout the crowd [...]
Socialism and The Church
“[The Church undertook] the protection of the individual and the family against a current threatening to bring about a total socialization which in the end would make the specter of the ‘Leviathan’ become a shocking reality. The Church will fight this battle to the end, for it is a question of [...]
Kill Me, Please
The draft bill for physician assisted suicide in Vermont has been published. Here’s a small sample from the text of the bill:
REQUEST FOR MEDICATION TO HASTEN MY DEATH
I, (insert your name here) , am an adult of sound mind.
I am suffering from (pick your particular ailment), which my attending physician has determined is a terminal [...]
Oh Well, People Die
First, sit down. If you are sitting down, take a deep breath. Because all this did not happen in a slum in Phnom Penh, or Sao Paulo, or Kinshasa. It happened in the United States, in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation. It happened only 100 miles from the guardian of the nation’s freedoms [...]
System Error: Windows has Detected a Sin
The concept of “near occasion of sin” is something you learn about at one point or another if you’ve taken a religious ed class, catechism training, or the like. The warning to avoid near occasions of sin is the Church’s way of telling you not to hang out with the wrong crowd or to avoid [...]
Prayer to End Abortion
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to [...]
Blood Money
BloodMoney is a documentary film narrated by Dr. Alveda King which exposes the truth behind the abortion industry from the pro-life perspective. The film examines the history of abortion in America, from the inception of Planned Parenthood and the profitability of abortion clinics, to Roe v. Wade, to the denial of when life begins, the [...]
The Catholic Education We Never Had
Many of us at CatholicMaine were raised during a time when religious instruction consisted primarily of exploring secular notions of peace and love. Sure, we knew that our God was an “awesome” God, a God of love. But [...]
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