GENEVA (6 March 2018) – Children face becoming commodities as surrogacy arrangements become more prevalent, and urgent action is needed to protect their rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children has warned. “There is no right to have a child under international law,” said Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, who presented…
Threats to the Sanctity of Human Life By charitably challenging the use of such terms as “preembryo” and “potential life,” we will direct the minds and hearts of our brothers and sisters back to the essential question of when human life begins. This is the essential question because once it is determined that the zygote…
https://www.catholicjournal.us/2018/02/26/play-ball-christs-faithful-sitting-sidelines/ So let us reflect on these words of our Lord and seek to change our outlook and our response to the attacks on marriage and family: “How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God” (St. John 5:44). My brothers…
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vancouver-archbishop-critiques-euthanasia-provision-in-hospice-care-53732 “The government needs to immediately halt any efforts to force access to assisted suicide in facilities where caregivers – whether family, friends, or health-care workers or volunteers – selflessly attend to the sick and suffering,” said Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver in a Feb. 22 statement. “As a community, we must also ask…
http://www.fargodiocese.org/Humanae-Vitae-and-the-single-girl Humanae Vitae is a reassuring sanity-check for single Catholics. It says (implicitly) that love is possible and can be expected, and that it’s worth sacrifice. To a single woman like me, it says that I am worthy of respect and love and that no man has the right to intimacy without marital commitment. Intimacy…
