Mary H. FioRito
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Cardinal Francis George Fellow @EPPCdc , @ND_EthicsCenter . Wife, Mom, Attorney, radio host, cookbook hoarder. The dogma lives loudly within me. AMDG. Bye, Roe.
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Please pray for a friend’s cousin - She was hit by the car at the Waukesha holiday parade and is in the hospital with head and neck injuries. She is 3 years old. Her name is Kelsey. Thanks.
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Chicago Police Officer Ella French. Murdered in Chicago last night during a traffic stop. Leaves behind an infant daughter.
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In Ann Arbor last night: Passerby stops to help police clear a downed tree. It was football coach Jim Harbaugh, who recently faced calls for his termination for publicly saying, "In God’s plan, each unborn human truly has a future filled with potential, talent, dreams and love.”
On 2/22/23 at approximately 8pm in the middle of the ice storm Ofc Howard Cooper was at Devonshire and Londonderry to remove a large tree that was blocking the road when a van pulled up. The driver then parked and got out of the vehicle. (1/3)
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Photo of police officers praying outside of the University of Chicago Hospital last night. The partner of the officer who was murdered after a routine traffic stop remains in critical condition.
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Prayer request: a friend of my daughter found his mother dead, suspected COVID. She was 42 and had been having flu-like symptoms for about a week. He'd gone out to talk a walk w/ a friend, went back to check on her and found her. He's 18 and the only child of a single mother.
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The earliest manual of Christian discipline, written by the first followers of Jesus, explicitly condemned abortion - by name - in a Roman empire where it was widely practiced. It was 100% clear to those who knew Jesus that abortion was incompatible with His teachings.
I simply cannot emphasize enough that there was A LOT of abortion going on in Jesus' lifetime and he literally never said a single word about it
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FOR ALL MY CATHOLIC FRIENDS WHOSE MOTHERS AREN'T ON X: Tomorrow is the Solemnity of the Assumption. It is a Holy Day of Obligation (HDO). Yes, that means you have to go to Mass. No, the fact that you went Sunday doesn't count. Yes, you can go tonight for tomorrow, if your parish
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Before there was Caitlin Clark, there was Villanova's Shelly Pennefather. The highest paid women's basketball player in the world for years, she left it all behind for something more.
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Update on Kelsey, the little girl hit by the SUV in Waukesha: She is awake -- has a broken nose, a bad concussion, and "road rash." But her brain and neck scans looked good! Thank you for the prayers!
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For the past 25 years, it’s been my privilege to be a volunteer and board member at Aid for Women, a nonprofit that runs maternity homes and pregnancy services throughout Illinois.
Last night, after the closing of the DNC, vandals attacked one of AFW’s Chicago locations.
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A 29-year old police officer- a member of the CPD’s Community Safety Team, murdered last night. God rest her soul and comfort her family.
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@Austin__Berg
@BretBaier
I have a neighbor, widowed in her early 60's. Lives in a "collar suburb" of Chicago. Owns her home outright, but after her husband died, had to get a part-time job to pay the $14,000 a year property tax bill. She's literally working just to pay taxes on a house she already owns.
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Would you please pray for a mother who lost her unborn child after being seriously injured in the Chicago-area tornado last night? Many thanks.
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@Bishopoftyler
Fr. Anthony has colon/liver cancer, and is treated at the Mayo Clinic every 3 weeks, yet maintains 24/7 adoration, a parish school with 300 children, and a soup kitchen. He offers Mass each weekend in Polish, Spanish and English. He does this by himself, he has no associates.
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Pray for Officer French's partner. His condition is extremely grave.
The other officer shot in the head last night in West Englewood. 3 gun shot wounds. One exited eye (lost one eye), one in the shoulder, one lodged in the back of the head. He's hanging on. Say a prayer.
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And patrol officers had to break up several “demonstrations” last night- large groups of people “celebrating” the death of this officer and the serious wounding of another.
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The earliest manual of Christian discipline, written by the first followers of Jesus, explicitly - by name - condemned abortion in a Roman empire where it was widely practiced. It was absolutely clear to the first Christians that abortion was incompatible with the Gospel.
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@Catholic4Choice
Conceiving. NOT afterwards. Her decision was made BEFOREHAND -- prior to the Word becoming flesh. Thanks for confirming the Church's "unchanged and unchangeable" teaching.
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@McMisoprostol
The earliest manual of Christian discipline, written by the first followers of Jesus, explicitly condemned abortion in a Roman empire where, as you note, it was widely practiced. It was 100% clear to those who knew Jesus best that abortion was incompatible with His teachings,
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Thirteen years ago today, on St. John Paul II's birthday, I asked him if he would intercede for us to have one more baby, even though I had been told I was "definitely infertile." And twelve years ago today, this happened.
#StJohnPaulII
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@EdWhelanEPPC
How will these students function in the real world when they graduate? If the firm that hires them decides to represent a client they find personally repulsive, will they line the halls of the office and yell vicious things when the client arrives for his/her first meeting?
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+Rummel excommunicated Catholic politicians in his diocese who voted against desegregation. They complained to Rome and got a letter back instructing them that +Rummel had every right to bar them from Holy Communion, because Black children were "welcome in the House of the Lord."
Archbishop Joseph Rummel (1876-1964), of New Orleans. Desegregated parishes, interdicted congregations that prohibited African American parishioners & priests. Later desegregated Catholic schools, & *excommunicated* 3 political activists for opposing integration. Absolute legend.
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Some of you know that my younger sister, Geri, is very ill with Covid. She has been on a ventilator for over a month now. We really need prayers for her healing and for the peace and protection of her family. CaringBridge site is now up and running. TIA.
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@EdWhelanEPPC
“Is the juice worth the squeeze?” This represents the level of rhetoric at Stanford? Why did she feel it was her place to grandstand and attempt to take over the event herself by speaking about Judge Duncan in such disrespectful terms?
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@FerrareMichael
@clareanneath
My OB suggested "pregnancy interruption" when I experienced complications with my first child. It really damaged my relationship with her. I never entirely trusted her going forward & changed OB's for our subsequent children. My condition WAS treatable & that baby just turned 21.
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Cardinal Bernardin turned down an invitation to address the DNC when it was last held in Chicago in 1996 - and Clinton's "safe legal and rare" formulation is practically pro-life compared to compared to VP Harris's support of abortion for the duration of pregnancy - not to
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The earliest manual of Christian discipline --written by the first followers of Christ -- explicitly condemned abortion, by name, in a Roman Empire where it was widely practiced. It was 100% clear to them that abortion was incompatible with the teachings and instruction of Jesus.
I am a Catholic—baptized, raised, and confirmed.
The fundamental tenets of my faith compel me to defend a women’s right to access abortion.
I am proudly part of the faithful large majority of US Catholics who support legal protections for abortion access.
Read my statement ⬇️
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@AP
My nephew, who is a healthy and happy toddler, was born at 22 weeks, a full month before this woman aborted her child. She could have "ended the pregnancy" by delivering a living child.
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@thehowie
@MeghanMcCain
@GovernorVA
Friend of mine had a baby girl with a rare form of anencephaly. Chose perinatal hospice instead of abortion. Baby died peacefully in her father's arms. And her heart valves then saved the lives of two critically ill infants who would have died without her gift of organ donation.
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@AnthonyEsolen
Years ago, the late Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago wrote a column for the Chicago Tribune where she noted that she had to explain concepts like "the writing on the wall," or the "parting of the Red Sea," to her students so that they could understand the
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@ThomasPolega
The Holy Father is meeting here with Representatives of the US Government; He meets with many government officials. He's NOT seen giving them Holy Communion. Pope Francis has said that "pro-choice" politicians are "outside the community of the Church."
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The first person to acknowledge Jesus (other than his mother) was his pre-born cousin, John the Baptist. Happy Feast of the Visitation!
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@TruthAgape
1 in every 25 women will present in the ER following a medication abortion. Mifepristone and Misoprostal can pose serious health risks to women. Why didn't the abortion clinic follow up with her? Why did they not reach out to her to make certain she was ok?
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Chicago area friends, this is a terrible carjacking story from the Beverly neighborhood, of a St. Ignatius family. Please read. One of my neighbors had something similar happen to her (was followed after picking up her boys from basketball camp).
Message being shared by those who received it from Jeff Pettiford on behalf of his family after they were robbed at gunpoint in the driveway of their Beverly home. This is the latest chilling crime in Chicago caught on Ring to go viral.
It's just "big city livin'" until...
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Stunned by the sudden death this morning of Vicki Thorn, founder of Project Rachel. Recognized internationally for her expertise on post-abortion aftermath, Vicki was a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life & recipient of
@ND_EthicsCenter
’s prestigious Evangelium Vitae medal.
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@drpoppyBHRT
In 90% of cases, by the time an ectopic pregnancy is discovered, the embryo has already died, so there's no "abortion" involved. Planned Parenthood used to admit on its website that abortion and treatment for ectopic pregnancy were not the same thing. Abortion clinics don't even
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Because of Amy Coney Barrett: "I went on to succeed that semester and, by God’s grace, to become the first blind woman to clerk on the Supreme Court."
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Cardinal George passed away 9 years ago today. Ask him for a favor today. He is generous on special days.
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@JamesMartinSJ
ACB did NOT sentence Mr. Hall to death. A jury of his peers did. SCOTUS isn't the "finder of fact" in criminal cases. They apply the law. The legal issue here involved the USE OF EVIDENCE that might have swayed the jury. Let's also pray for Hall's victim.
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Treating a woman with an ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage is NOT the same thing as performing an abortion. Catholic hospitals treat these conditions every day. Don't believe the lies: pro-life laws will NOT prohibit doctors from treating ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages.
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So proud of my St. Ignatius College Prep classmate and friend, Bishop Michael McGovern, for his decision to sell the diocesan Bishop's residence, donating proceeds to a home for expectant mothers. AMDG.
#https
://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/belleville/article263402923.html
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@justinmsexton
@March_for_Life
@benshapiro
I have a 32-weeker, a 34-weeker, and a 36-weeker. Only one went to the NICU. I also have a nephew born at 22 weeks/0 days who is a perfectly healthy toddler today.
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@AmyBrenneman
@ReproRights
Can't imagine your Thanksgiving. When you go around the table and everyone mentions what they are thankful for, do the "children you were meant to have" express gratitude that you permitted them to live? If I were a kid in your house, I'd sleep with one eye open.
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@RichardHanania
Yes, we DO have an answer. Perintal hospice. You do not need to help a dying child die. This couple's child received the same diagnosis. She was born, met her grandparents, was able to nurse, was baptized, and died peacefully in her father's arms.
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The Ulma Family, executed by the Nazis for hiding 8 Jewish neighbors in their attic, was beatified today in Markowa, Poland. The occasion marks the first known unborn child to be beatified (Wiktoria Ulma was 7 months pregnant).
Pielgrzymi idą z każdej strony do Markowej na beatyfikację rodziny Ulmów.
32,000 people registered for the Ulma beatification Mass, in early morning hours they marched through the local roads to reach Markowa.
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Ultrasound 1965 vs. ultrasound 2021. What SCOTUS didn't see or consider in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, they certainly can see and consider now.
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Update/Correction from CPD, via the Chicago Tribune - it was Officer French's partner, who was shot twice in the head but remains alive and fighting, who had the infant child at home, not French.
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Pope Benedict XVI was the first Pope to choose consecrated lay women (instead of cloistered or vowed women religious) to comprise the staff of the Papal Household. They had dinner with him regularly, and he regularly sought out their opinions on matters involving lay women and
One of the loveliest parts of the Ratzinger Prize festivities was the honors paid to the Memores Domini who comprised Pope Benedict’s “family” and who cared for him until his death. The stunning painting on display at the event by Natalia Tsarkova features their portraits.
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Yesterday,
@GovPritzker
issued a proclamation honoring Illinois abortionists. Today he attended Mass at a Catholic Church in Chicago. There is no limit to his pandering hypocrisy.
It was an honor to attend mass at Old St. Pat's this morning for this time-honored tradition. Now, let’s have a great parade!
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Pritzker outright lied during this week's debate. The SAFE-T Act will allow criminals to walk on day one.
The Trust Fund Pol or the Professional Prosecutor, who do you trust?
Pritzker's SAFE-T or Your Personal Safety? That's the choice.
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@JGunlock
"My goal here isn't to criticize [women]...unable to have kids. It’s one thing not to have kids, it’s another thing to build an entire political movement that is anti-child and anti-family. And that’s what the left has done.” 27:00
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When they go low, we go high.
Planned Parenthood's providing free abortions and vasectomies at the DNC.
Democrats for Life is countering with a diaper drive.
I just donated and I hope you will, too.
While Planned Parenthood is providing free abortions at the DNC, Democrats For Life is conducting a diaper drive to support local Chicago families. Help by donating here.
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On this day in 2005, St. John Paul II left this world to enter the next. Ask him for a favor today. He is very generous on special days.
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@HeidiSchlumpf
@MichaelSWinters
The same advice was offered to Dr. Martin Luther King. To which he replied: "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, religion and education will have to do that, but it can restrain him from lynching me. And so that while legislation may not change the hearts of
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@HeidiSchlumpf
Yet traditional parishes are thriving. And more conservative arch/dioceses are ordaining far more men. Milwaukee alone will ordain 9 men this May, for example. The NYT captured similar differences found in many parishes in this recent article - a Chicago suburban parish that
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
- W. B. Yeats
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@DanProft
Here’s the one gathering you will see: officers gathered outside of the University of Chicago hospital, praying with police chaplain Fr. Dan Brandt.
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Walz repealed the Minnesota Born Alive Protection Act. He supports "after-birth" abortion.
no, this is not a right wing fever dream. it is simply the horrifying truth
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When they go low, we go high.
Democrats for Life has raised $6,000 for diapers for needy Chicago-area moms and have already made their first delivery to the South Side.
Free Diapers vs. Free Abortions in a Mobile Van
A Culture of Life vs. A Culture of Death
A quick update: Together, we've raised $6000 to provide diapers for financially insecure families, and we've already made our first delivery to the South Side of Chicago. Our goal is to donate over 13,000 diapers by the end of the week. Thank you all for your incredible support!
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Scottish mum gives birth to healthy baby after 'ignoring medical advice to terminate pregnancy'
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Every year on my daughter's birthday we pray for the NICU doctors and nurses who treated her and the doctors and nurses who delivered her safely. From a tiny baby to teenager in the blink of an eye.
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@RichardDawkins
That's why we Catholics genuflect when we enter a church. For centuries, it's the reason why many a saint has suffered torture and martyrdom -- because they would not deny this "True Presence" of Our Lord in the Eucharist. It is both the "source and the summit" of Christian life.
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Justice Sotomayor clearly unaware of the multitude of babies born before 23-24 weeks who are very much viable, like my nephew, born at 22 weeks/0 days. A happy, healthy boy today. Babies born at 21 weeks, 1 day onwards now survive.
#EndRoe
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When the holding in Roe is explained to American voters they overwhelmingly reject it: only 18% of Americans say abortion should be legal for the duration of pregnancy. The majority would limit it to 12 weeks or less, support clinic regulation & would ban sex-selection abortions.
We’re the 8 in 10 Americans who support the legal right to abortion. We’re the reproductive freedom majority, and we’re not backing down.
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If you'd like to know what many Africans think of
@JoeBiden
's overturning the Mexico City Policy, sending millions of dollars to fund abortions there, have a look at this short video.
Premiering now...the African response to Biden’s abortion funding. Join us...
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Please pray for the repose of my Aunt Mary. A legend indeed. RIP.
We lost my mum today. The last of six brothers and sisters. A Paisley dynasty. RIP Mary
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When you're facing a rejection that forces you to re-think your life, pray for the intercession of Cardinal George. He wan't permitted to enter the seminary in Chicago b/c of his polio. God's great sense of humor arranged for him to return decades later --as Chicago's Archbishop.
When at 13
#CardinalGeorge
contracted polio, his dream of becoming a priest in Chicago was over. Told he couldn’t be ordained there because of his disability, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate welcomed him. In 1997, he went home as Chicago’s first native archbishop.
#WorldPolioDay
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@CPD1617Scanner
"Mob action" is a type of unlawful assembly charge under the criminal code of the State of Illinois. if one "assembles with one or more persons to do an unlawful act, intending that the purpose of assembling was to perform the unlawful act" then one can be charge with "mob
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Prior to the Dobbs decision and the overturn of Roe, the United States was one of only seven countries in the world (including North Korea and China) that legally permitted abortion for the duration of pregnancy. It's the Democratic Party position that is extreme.
Donald Trump brags about ending Roe v. Wade.
Here's the effect of that: Iowa’s cruel abortion ban has now gone into effect—harming 1.5 million women in the state.
This November, we must reject his extremism and then work to restore Roe.
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@AnnCoulter
And there are also risks from late second trimester abortions. From uterine perforation to infection to, yes, death, as in the case of Tonya Reaves who died after her uterus was perforated in a Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic:
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@GovPritzker
Except your people with disabilities - IL still ranks 47/50 states for services to those with special needs. Your focus is on eliminating those lives, not helping them or their families. It's why special needs families move to IN and WI.
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Abortion hurts women and frees irresponsible men.
Pete Buttigieg tells
#WhiteDudesForKamala
that “of course, men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion”
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Sponsored by Planned Parenthood
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How heartbreaking to watch this. Praying these parents are given some consolation from their encounter with the Holy Father.
Pope Francis, leaving Gemelli hospital, comforts & prays with a couple who just lost their daughter, Angelica, last night.
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@kgscanlon
OMGosh, Disco Duck was the BEST. SONG. EVER. Are you also one of those people who don't understand why it is so exciting when "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is broadcast on national TV? (and if you reply with "I have it on DVD" you'll have told me all I need to know).
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@RyanMarino
@Prolife_Sam
You are misinformed. Cleveland Clinic does fetal surgery starting at 16 weeks.
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Katie Shaw, a disablity and self-advocate with Down Syndrome, brings down the house at the
@ND_EthicsCenter
Vita Institute. “I have a wonderful life…every life is a gift.” Standing ovation!
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I'm not crying, you're crying
After Mom died, I asked dad if he wanted to move into the rectory with me, and he agreed.
His first night in the rectory, the emergency line rang at 2:30 AM.
I jumped out of bed and threw my Cassock on, got the dog ready and opened my bedroom door to find dad standing there with
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@JroWooTown
@gloria_mcmahon
@cararaye
Simple answer: Treatment for ectopic pregnancy and treatment for abortion aren't the same thing. In fact, abortion clinics don't treat ectopic pregnancies, and Catholic hospitals do. (Many abortion providers are not even OB/Gyn's, much less surgeons.) Planned Parenthood explains:
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“And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” Happy Feast of the Visitation.
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Amazing evening at Notre Dame with
@AbbyJohnson
and producers of the film Unplanned. Thanks to
@cartersnead
for moderating a fantastic conversation. So many enthusiastic students! Change is coming.
#Unplanned
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@JeremyTate41
My experience is the same. Way more young families at the TLM or similar parishes -- and they travel to get there in most cases.
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DO. NOT. EXPLOIT. CHILDREN.
After the
#MeToo
movement and the ongoing problem with child pornography and sex trafficking,
@NetflixFilm
produces a film that is a pedophile’s dream. Sexualizing children should not be part of mainstream culture.
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Just one example of why it's always better to eliminate the crisis, not the child.
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What Harris is refusing to admit is that Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, permitted elective abortion for the duration of pregnancy. Prior to Dobbs, the US was one of only 7 countries in the world that allowed abortion for the full 40 weeks of gestation.
1️⃣ Harris refuses to name a single limit on abortion she supports. Even when a reporter asked if she was okay with Roe being interpreted as a 20-24-week limit, she said, “No, no, no.“
Not at 37 weeks or 38 or 39 – or even 40.
It shouldn't be this hard.
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@JBPritzker
Please disclose to Illinois taxpayers how much taxpayer money is being used every year to underwrite abortion - an elective procedure. No other elective procedure is supported by taxpayers in the state of Illinois, except for abortion.
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@xomichaelaxo_
Just like Amazon. The same week they were sued for discrimination against their pregnant workers, Amazon also offered a $4,000 "benefit package" for any pregnant employee who was willing to travel for and obtain an abortion. Cheaper than maternity leave!
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@PatriciaHeaton
@ProLifeDem
And this also happened in Chicago, on the closing night of the DNC.
@ProLifeDem
was there the next morning, with a multitude of diapers and wipes!
For the past 25 years, it’s been my privilege to be a volunteer and board member at Aid for Women, a nonprofit that runs maternity homes and pregnancy services throughout Illinois.
Last night, after the closing of the DNC, vandals attacked one of AFW’s Chicago locations.
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Happy Birthday to the middle kid. Born on the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, at Loyola Medical Center, she shares the passion of Ignatius and maybe just a little bit of his fighting spirit. Go, set the world on fire, Lucy! (not literally, please).
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I served on the board of a Chicago pregnancy center for 20 years. Unlike abortion clinics that charge for their "services," we provided FREE housing in 2 maternity homes, FREE cribs, car seats, diapers. Violence against pregnancy centers hurts women who CHOSE to have their baby.
Full statement from Jane's Revenge, announcing that it's "open season" on pro-life pregnancy centers.
Future measures "may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti," the terrorist group threatens.
Merrick Garland?????
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