Info on healing after #abortion in a men's bathroom, and real people have taken all those info slips. How can they say it's a normal medical procedure???
March for Life + The Avengers = Awesomeness
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!" -- Isaiah 49:15
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There have been 55 million abortions since 1973, so roughly 28 million women have died from abortions since Roe.
Just 28 million deaths of women, that's all. Just around 1,800 today if statistical averages hold true, that's all.
Let's be real.
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I know I’m probably expected to post about today’s Roe v. Wade 40th anniversary, but I’d rather just pray.
I, too, shall pray.
I will pray that women* will continue to have access to a safe and legal abortion if they so choose to have one.
I will pray that someday, close-minded people will open their minds to see that, hey - women* have brains too! And that they can make their own decisions.
And I will pray that you, good sir, will see that God has intended for us to love - not to shame.
I'm fully aware that women make their own decisions. My ministry has brought me into contact with far too many women shattered by their past decision to abort a child of theirs to not care deeply about this.
I fully agree that God intends us to love, not to shame. If I shame anyone -- including you -- please call me on it, since it's not my intent and I will immediately retract whatever I said. May I mention however that not to think that it's a "shame" that 55 million children have died since 1973 through legal abortion is simply absurd.
This is not a day that we have anything to celebrate.
I know I'm probably expected to post about today's Roe v. Wade 40th anniversary, but I'd rather just pray.
Yet another powerful March for Life promo video...
President Obama explains why I'm going to the March for Life.
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There can never be peace in a world where a mother would kill her own child.
Mother Teresa (via goon-sister-minion)
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#abortion #prolife (Taken with Instagram)
Couldn't Have Said It Better
The Planned Parenthood offices just a few blocks from my new parish say this on their website:
"We do not provide childcare services."
No kidding. Make you wonder why they have Parenthood in their name?
Someone just asked what the penalty should be for abortion if it were to be made illegal. Here's something I wrote on that a while back. God bless!
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Trailer for “40”, a new documentary on abortion from Spirit Juice studios.
Anonymous asked:
Is it possible to remain a Catholic in good standing while maintaining a pro-choice stance? How does the Church handle those types of disagreements? Is "agree to disagree" allowed? Also, is it possible to become a nun and be pro-choice? Do personal views matter, or is just important that one stay true to their vow of obedience?
A perennial question!
What makes us Christians is Baptism. It's the only way that we can draw a clear black/white line between who is or who isn't Christian.
But things get blurrier after that. Vatican II's Lumen Gentium talks in terms of communion: You're in "communion" with the Church in differing degrees. If you read #14-15 of that document, you'll see how the different intensities of communion are described for Catholics living in grace, Catholics in a state of grave sin, catechumens who desire to be united to the Church, Orthodox, Protestants, and even those who aren't yet Christian.
Let's look at the "Catholic" part:
The bonds which bind men to the Church in a visible way are profession of faith, the sacraments, and ecclesiastical government and communion.
So if any of us choose to disagree about an element of our profession of faith, our communion with Christ's Church is imperfect; it's not what it should be, and it's not what God desires for us. Ultimately, of course, it's not really about our "opinions," but about God's will for us. Our attitude with our Heavenly Father has to be one of desiring ever more to fulfill his will, and seeking that our desires be aligned with his more than the other way around.
So the question about becoming a nun is a complicated one for you right now. If you don't feel that you're ready for that full communion yet, it's probably better to take some time to reflect on it. Don't assume that your views are immutable; we're never that "calcified." I've found, for example, that a lot of my views have changed during my own faith journey, hopefully for the best.
God bless you!
- Father Shane