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“Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless.”
Proverbs 31:8

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

REFLECTIONS

It is with heavy hearts that we inform you of the passing of Denver Sallee,
who has been the author of these Reflections since their inception, September 2, 2010.
We pray that the babies he fought so staunchly for were there to welcome him home.

12.06.2021 In the last couple of years, we have seen the gates of hell spew out a volcanic eruption of anti-life attacks. Babies in the womb, and outside the womb, are being killed at an alarming rate. The infirm and the elderly are in danger of being euthanized. We have seen anti-life protesters across the nation seemingly possessed by evil spirits as they cheer abortion and scream out against the recent Heartbeat Bill signed into law in Texas. The editorial board of a Case Western Reserve University (CRWU) student newspaper slammed the decision to recognize the campus pro-life group, which the paper called "a danger to the student body."
Our Lord said that in the final days good would be bad and bad would be considered good. We don't know if this is the time our Lord spoke of or not. All we know is that times are very dark. Our Judeo-Christian faith is under attack on a daily basis. Through all of this onslaught, however, we can find comfort if we but remember, God has promised to destroy all evil one day and restore the heavens and earth to their proper state. He promised to be with His Church until the end of time. Trust in the Lord. Keep calm. Keep the faith. He is still on His throne.

11.29.2021 Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish and prudish. It is because if people knew what abortion really looked like, it would destroy the pretense that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unplanned babies rather than reality that it is a violent, barbaric murder.

11.22.2021 In 1859, the medical profession initiated anti-abortion legislation because of scientific evidence establishing the humanity of the unborn. Because some who oppose abortion do so on religious grounds does not make abortion a religious issue any more than the opposition of religious people driving after drinking makes drunk driving a religious issue. Religion didn't discover when life begins - biologists did. Religion didn't establish the uniqueness of each human life from the time of fertilization - geneticists did.

11.15.2021 It is historical fact that those who spoke out against the Nazis and their crimes against humanity ended up in the concentration camps just like the Jewish people did, but they spoke up anyway. If asked, what you did to stop the government-sponsored slaughter of over 62.5 million babies in the United States since 1973, what would your answer be? We celebrate those who stood up to the Nazis. Will you have the courage to stand up for life?

11.8.2021 Hope deferred makes the heart sick. - Proverbs 13:12
The word "heart" in the passage embodies not only the mental or emotional core, but the whole inward person. If something "makes the heart sick" it causes despair and affliction. The Good News Bible translation renders the verse like this: "When hope is crushed, the heart is crushed." Hope deferred can lead to depression, anxiety, and the making of bad decisions. When we wait for a good thing for so long that desire and expectation turn to hoplessness, we can become sprititually dried up and vulnerable to the enemy's attacks.
The continuing tragedies of young people taking their own lives are a direct consequence of the hope being removed from their lives. The hope that was present a few short years ago when God was still allowed in their schools; the hope that was present before one political party removed mention of God from their platform; the hope that was present when human life was valued and celebrated and not dismissed as something to be discarded if it were deemed inconvenient and unworthy of any effort to sustain it; the hope that was present when the American family was recognized as a core necessity to sustain a stable society and culture. The hope that is now only "deferred" but seemingly permanently absent as our youth contemplate what their lives will be. I weep pondering the loss of hope for my grandkids and their peers and shudder at what may await them.
Summarized simply: "No hope, No God. Know hope, Know God."

11.1.2021 We have treated the loss of our unborn babies as a theoretical loss, a loss to be tolerated in order for many to live their dreamt of life ambitions, a sad-but-necessary loss, "collateral damage" as of civilians in wartime. We have not yet realized that the offspring lost are not our enemy's loss, nor our neighbor's, but our own and, more broadly, a loss to our nation. And, it is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being uique in history whose contributions will never be realized and whose lineage was ended by the scapel and forceps of a serial killer under satan's guise of "health care." Real healthcare doesn't kill - it heals.

10.18.2021 "I was hungry and you did not feed Me. I was thirsty and you did not give Me drink, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me." That is His clear word from divine revelation. On the day of judgment, do you honestly think He will not add: "I was slaughtered in an abortion mill and you did nothing to rescue Me?" The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without saying anything. Make today the day you say, "Never let it be said that I was silent when the babies needed me."

10.11.2021 Seventeen years after Roe v Wade, in 1990, one writer wrote, "God forbid that this blight of abortion still exists at this century's end. Still exist? Now in 2021, it's worse than ever. This past week we saw "Women's Marches" in DC and big cities across the nation with hate-filled, seething, protesters demanding the Supreme Court preserve Roe v Wade and the "right" to snuff out preborn life up to the moment of birth. We now have partial birth abortion, euthanasia, Planned Parenthood selling body parts, vaccine cell lines created from aborted babies. Are you the one God has sent into the world to bring an end to the evils of abortion and euthanasia? Think about it. Join the efforts of a pro-life group and do something about it.

10.04.2021 Perhaps in the decade of Roe v Wade one could argue that little was known about the development or mortality of an embryo or fetus. Very few instruments were available to detect humanity medically or scientifically.
Today, due to the advances in modern technology, this is not argument that can be made, in particular with the advent of the ultrasound where we can now measure brain waves and heartbeats within the womb.
Hiding behind word semantics of "choice" and "reproductive rights"politicians, entire political party platforms and the abortion industry have promoted laws of destruction and have caused great pain to millions.
It's time for the crime of abortion to end! Continuing to murder 3000 babies ech day is the gravest of sins. Too many children have been sacrificed for the sake of convenience and the pain haunts those who make that choice are haunted forever.

09.27.2021 As we defend our "sides" in this increasingly polarized and politicized world, remember that we truly have a common enemy---the devil. He despises gays and straights alike. He hates blacks and whites with the same intensity. He detests men and women too. As Jesus taught in Jn. 8:44, "He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the Truth because there is no Truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

09.20.2021 Our decades long battles to protect vulnerable human life added to the devastating virus, the border crisis, runaway inflation, the chaotic ending of our nation’s longest war in Afghanistan plus the daily challenges we all face, add up to the burden that is life in 2021, can be discouraging, and even seem hopeless. We can restore our hope if we remember that God’s people have faced impossible circumstances throughout salvation history but always found Him providing relief to His faithful followers. If God could close the lion’s mouth for Daniel, part the Red Sea for Moses, make the sun stand still for Joshua, open the prison for Peter, put a baby in Sarah’s arms, and raise Lazarus from the dead, then He can certainly take care our individual and collective situations if we, like they, trust in Him and have faith in Him.

09.13.2021 The pro-death fanatics are losing their collective minds over the new Texas law prohibiting abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. To obfuscate our message, the anti-life crowd likes to twist our words and intentions when framing the arguments we make to insure the sanctity of human life. To be clear, no one has the right to tell a woman she has to have a child. The pro-life movement has never suggested that women should be required to have children. However, it is a biological fact, the “opinions” of politicians aside, that when a woman is pregnant, life has begun and she already has a child. Our argument is simply that this child should not be killed by abortion.

09.06.2021 The truth is that some of the evils we face today are partly our fault. Back in the 1960’s, one woman, Madeline pMurray O’Hare, got prayer removed from public schools. Then, we sat in virtual national silence as the killing of pre-born babies was decriminalized. Pornography, transgendersim, and bathroom wars followed while most of us quietly yawned and looked away. Our silence is destroying our nation and America as we have known her is vanishing daily. We must speak out now while we still can. We must be silent no more.

08.30.2021 A few years ago, pro-abortion groups were giving away candles that said “Abortion Is Magical". Murder isn't magical. It's not a cozy winter night by the fire or the happy ending to a Hallmark movie. It's a violent, bloody stain left behind by the deaths of over 60 million American children. Children who never got to take their first breath or experience their first Christmas -- or anything else, because a movement of unapologetic extremists mistakes killing as their "right." Snuffing out life, snuffing out a candle, it's all the same to them. To the rest of the world, Christmas is about birth -- not death. It's a celebration of the most unplanned pregnancy of all. The real light - Jesus Christ.

08.23.2021 Our decades long battles to protect vulnerable human life added to the devastating virus, the border crisis, runaway inflation, the chaotic ending of our nation’s longest war in Afghanistan plus the daily challenges we all face, add up to the burden that is life in 2021, can be discouraging, and even seem hopeless. We can restore our hope if we remember that God’s people have faced impossible circumstances throughout salvation history but always found Him providing relief to His faithful followers.
If God could close the lion’s mouth for Daniel, part the Red Sea for Moses, make the sun stand still for Joshua, open the prison for Peter, put a baby in Sarah’s arms, and raise Lazarus from the dead, then He can certainly take care our individual and collective situations if we, like they, trust in Him and have faith in Him.

08.15.2021 The world calls it a virus, but the Bible calls it a plague. The world calls it a protest, but the Bible calls it lawlessness. The world calls abortion and euthanasia a choice, but the Bible calls it murder. The world calls it utopia, but the Bible calls it Babylon. When the secular citizens of the world substitute words of their choice, it changes the meaning, desensitizes them to absolute truth, and sears their conscience. This is how the world whitewashes a grave and burns its collective conscience at the same time. They minimize the truth, marginalize conviction and maximize sin. The world calls those who defend the sanctity of human life extremists, but the Bible calls us Christians.

08.08.2021 In Saint Benedict's time, communities were formed to answer the evil of his day. To combat it, to resist it, to militate against it. Saint Benedict and those who followed him realized that when light militates darkness, the light is always victorious – but the light needs to be brought into the darkness. As we watch the news on any day, it is rife with examples of how the human person is under attack. The killing fields of our major cities on any given weekend, ISIS and the Taliban, to the death chambers of Planned Parenthood are our modern examples of evil on a supernatural level. As defenders of all human life, our mission must be to bring the light of Christ into our world's darkness.

08.01.2021 In this troubled world, we are often reminded “that we are all in this together” and that we need to come to a common understanding and purpose. However, this nice sounding advice ignores the reality that to accomplish this end would require that we ignore the Commandment, “Thou shall not kill” and side with those who advocate murdering preborn children. Instead, our Faith requires us to pick which side we will join.
Yes. It’s this basic. Pick a side. There is no middle ground between good and evil. Truth cannot compromise with error. We know which side wins in the end, but we can’t be squishy now, or think we are high-minded and educated for picking the “woke” and popular evil. And we can’t think that the evil won’t devour us in the end, if we just go along to get along. It’s Christ or the world, and we must choose. Christ’s way comes with a heavy cross now, but it ends in Heaven, forever.

07.25.2021 An uncomfortable truth – daily on the Internet, in news broadcasts, or newspapers, we hear of acts of barbarism inflicted upon innocent victims targeted by terrorists. So frequent and so heinous are these evil events that our minds can hardly process the fact that they are actually occurring. We can diminish reality somewhat by telling ourselves that they are taking place somewhere far away. Not in our cities. Not in our state. Not in our nation. Yet the same horror is commonplace in our midst – in our cities, our states, in our nation where, since 1973, we have turned our collective backs as innocent preborn babies numbering in the tens of millions are routinely executed by decapitation, dismemberment, and chemical scalding. The death tolls from Isis, MS 13, and all other terror organizations pale in comparison to numbers killed by abortion in America. God forgive our apathy and have mercy upon us.

07.18.2021 In every battle to pass ProLife legislation, inevitably the anti-life proponents use "exceptions" including incest and life of the mother only as an excuse to defend the slaughter of ALL unborn children for any reason. In reality, if the mother's life is threatened by her pregnancy, the doctor would deliver the baby through normal medical procedure but never stop midway to kill the baby. However, the very idea of delaying caring for and saving the mother long enough to take the time to kill the baby is such an obvious cruelty and deception that it exposes the confusion in some, and the hard-heartedness in others, who argue for such exceptions.

07.11.2021 "...He (Satan) was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Jn 8: 44 NIV His "native language" is now woven into our common vernacular. The lies of "a woman's right to choose", "reproductive rights", "planned parenthood", “it's not really a baby" or “death with dignity”, have now become our own native language. His evil purpose does not end with killing babies or euthanizing the elderly or infirm. His real agenda is to turn people into murderers so that he can drag them to hell.

07.04.2021 The recently concluded Group of Seven (G 7) Conference forum, an inter-governmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, ended with unanimous agreement to support what they incorrectly define as “reproductive rights” to promote unfettered access to abortion.
Abortion has NOTHING to do with reproductive rights. Reproduction has already occurred if there is someone to abort. Instead it has EVERYTHING to do with human rights, since It is a human who is being aborted. Reproductive rights end once you have reproduced and the human rights of the human who has been created then begin. Abortion is not a human right, it steals the rights of humans. Abortion is a politically protected means of death.

06.27.2021 Secular humanists, those who hold to the belief that humanity is capable of morality and self-fulfillment without belief in God, have made the word abortion sound like a woman’s right, synonymous with health care, female empowerment, standing for women’s issues, a choice, a solution -- anything but the truth.
The truth is, however, abortion is the termination of life. It is just a euphemism for murder because the only reason to get an abortion is to avoid the potential of birth -- a human birth. Compounding the evil further, never forget that abortion does not just kill one child. It kills generations.

06.20.2021 One of the practices of the cult that worshipped the pagan god Moloch was to sacrifice their children. Of course, this was forbidden by God's word and can be found in several passages. One such, Lev. 18:21, says, "Neither shall you give any of your offspring to offer them to Moloch, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.”
In the second century, Tertullian, an early Church Father, wrote about the evil practice of abortion: "To prevent birth is anticipated murder; it makes little difference whether one destroys a life already born or does away with it in its nascent stage. The one who will be a man is already one."
As Christians regularly gather to pray in front of Preterm, the busiest abortion mill in Ohio, hired Moloch supporters are frequently present loudly cursing, blaspheming and screaming pro death taunts as they do their best to disrupt and intimidate those gathered in prayer to defend unborn life The ancient spiritual conflict of good vs. evil is ongoing as the battle for life of the innocents continues today.

06.13.2021 A bumper sticker for Planned Parenthood says, “Every child a wanted child”. Who could disagree with that partial sentence? If the sentence were completed saying, “so . . . let’s find families where we can place children who are desperately wanted and where they will be loved." That would describe the pro-life position advocating adoption in cases of crisis pregnancies. Planned Parenthood’s partial sentence when completed would be — So, let’s identify those 'unwanted' children before they are born and kill them. If truthful, their slogan would be — Every Unwanted Child a Dead Child — but that doesn’t look so good on a bumper sticker.

06.06.2021 In the DVD "The Silent Scream" where an unborn child attempts to escape the abortionists suction curette; her motions can be seen to become desperately agitated and her heart rate doubles. Her mouth opens as if to scream, but no sound can be heard. The pro-abortion movement and lobby thrives on having a silent victim. Every pro-abortion argument requires that we pretend, that we play mind games, that we forget, ignore, or deny the humanity, worth, and dignity of unborn babies. It thrives on our ability to disregard innocent victims as long as they are out of our sight and voiceless. Tell a lie often enough and people will eventually believe it. Just consider their terminology (with words such as "fetus" "pro-choice" "nonviable" etc.) which is carefully designed to disguise the humanity of the unborn child and obscure what abortion really does. This is the story of the pro-abortion deception of America. Ruth Weber, Davenport, Iowa

05.30.2021 At no time do abortophiles become more indignant than when pro-lifers explain and publicize the many parallels between the original Nazi Holocaust and the abortion holocaust occurring in the United States right now. The intensity of their reaction to such analogies is almost comically vitriolic. They make no attempts to refute, only to condemn the Holocaust comparison. On one critical point in the analogy however, there is a glaring, tragic difference. In the Nazi death camps, the innocent children walked to their own genocide. At the grisly extermination centers run by Planned Parenthood in America today, the innocents are carried to their deaths by their mothers.

05.23.2021 In discussions about Roe vs Wade the pro-life position is often dismissed with the words, "It's the law." - "Case closed." -- "No need for more words." Under our law, for the child in utero, its very personhood and existential status, its chance for moral consideration, depends upon nothing intrinsic to the child. "Justice" is commonly defined as "getting what we deserve". The decision to kill the developing baby is not based on anything the child did. Under our "system of justice" (which allows abortion at all stages of pregnancy), the fate of the child is solely dependent upon the whim of the mother. An optimally just society would ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all individuals under the law including the unborn. Our society today would not qualify as even approaching being optimally just.

05.16.2021 In a phenomena called "Microchimerism" pre-born babies provide living cells that cross the placenta and live for decades in the mom’s blood. These fetal cells remain in the mother's blood stream and mobilize themselves where ever injury is occurring in the body. Most amazing is how these cells can repair a maternal heart. Fetal cells convert themselves into contractile cells and vessel cells that help recover the tissue in case of a heart attack. Amazingly, a woman who has an abortion receives many more fetal cells than the mother who carries the baby to term. It is as if the child experiencing the trauma of abortion — losing his or her life — gives to the mother an extra large dose of his/her life that could improve the mother's health.

05.09.2021 In the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, 32.5% of all soldiers died. Over three days, 51,112 men lost their lives. Today in America, when a marker is present indicating the possibility of Down Syndrome, 92% of these preborn babies are killed in a manner more brutal than the deaths at Gettysburg. In our supposedly "civilized culture" it is more dangerous for those with the possibility of being born with an extra chromosome than to have fought at Gettysburg. These children, chosen by God to ignite the kindness that lies dormant in people's souls and to plant the seeds of empathy in our hearts, never get a chance to make us better people for having known them.

05.02.2021 Does all life matter? The answer would seem obvious. However, because of never-ending "political correctness", Christians who would claim that it does are bullied in the press, by the electronic media and social media as being insensitive at best and being bigots and haters at worst. The claim against Christians who say "all life matters" is that when they do so they intend to exclude, minimize and victimize some segments of the American demographic. This is blatantly false anti-Christian rhetoric. Christians turning to God's Word find Christ Himself explaining why He came down from heaven to be among us. He said, "I came that they might have life and have it abundantly". If life, all life, didn't matter, would He have come?

04.25.2021 When God created us He included some characteristics now deemed to be "imperfections". Seeking to improve on God's work, the secular "science for science sake" crowd works to weed out the disabled and different using infanticide, euthanasia, and increasingly genetic engineering. It defies the imagination that Jesus' "Love one another" has been superseded by man's "Eliminate the suffering by eliminating the sufferer.”

04.18.2021 Using "verbal engineering" to mask reality, euthanasia proponents capture our attention and hide their true intent when they speak of "death with dignity" and a "right to die." Everyone believes in death with dignity. This movement is not really about the right to die. The truth is they are talking about a right to kill. Across the world, advocates of euthanasia are asking their governments and courts to step aside and allow "mercy killings." When the basic human right to life is denied to those whose continued existence is judged to be an inconvenience, the lives of the poor, vulnerable, weak and aged are at an increased risk. How we treat the elderly, the disabled and the unborn is not a measure of their humanity but of our own.

04.11.2021 There was a TV commercial a decade ago where a very young boy watches as a mime makes a sales pitch to his parents. After listening to the interaction, he recognizes that what he witnessed can't be right. The youth looks into the camera and asks incredulously, "Does it bother anyone else that the mime is talking?" As we witness mothers willing to murder their innocent and defenseless children to defend their own so-called sexual freedoms, and that this willingness flies in the teeth of nature's strongest instinct — motherhood, shouldn't we Christians ask the same question, "Does it bother anyone else?"

04.04.2021 Sometimes when we see what is going on in our world we can be discouraged. Just as on the first Good Friday all hope appeared to be lost, but Jesus on the day of Resurrection changed everything!
Though feelings of utter defeat are understandable, we must refocus and not descend into fear and despair. One of the blessings of our Catholic faith is that we are a people of eternal hope.
It is claimed that the admonition, "Be not afraid" (or similar words of the same meaning) appears 365 times in the Holy Bible. We woukd be well-advised to remember this advice and also to keep in mind that, throughout even these disturbing times "God is still on His throne."

03.28.2021 It is a heart wrenching fact that each day our lives are filled with images and words describing new acts of terrorism. Though we might not think of our work in the pro-life arena as combating terrorism, think about this: the pro-death terrorists have targeted the black community for decades and their genocidal mission continues virtually unabated. Murdering black children by the millions is terrorism, and the deadliest and ugliest example of racism this nation has ever seen. Abortion is the number one killer of black lives in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion kills more black people than HIV, homicide, diabetes, accident, cancer, and heart disease -- combined. While Planned Parenthood is an "equal opportunity" killer, they specifically target the black community for extinction under the guise of health care.

03.21.2021 Pro-Life advocates can only win the abortion debate by not allowing the other side to frame the argument. The central issue is the personhood of the child being destroyed and we must keep the discussion focused only on that point. If it is a person, then ending its life because that life will be bothersome, cause economic hardship, interfere with careers or any other of the reasons offered, then abortion cannot be warranted. Embryological science indisputably establishes that from its earliest beginnings, the newly formed embryo is human. It is a unique person. The destruction of preborn persons at any stage of development can never be justified.

03.14.2021 Many of our most powerful politicians favor unfettered abortion which poses a societal threat deeper than the abortion issue. We need to ask ourselves, “Will a society which has assumed the right to kill infants in the womb find any impediment to killing other human beings who are judged unwanted, deemed imperfect physically or mentally or considered a social nuisance?” The Roe v. Wade case obscured the boundary to confer personhood on a human being and we now find ourselves on a precarious, slippery slope that leads us inevitably to the disposal of any “inconvenient” people. As our individual demand for affluence continues unabated and the economic crunch grows larger, the amount of compassion that the legislature, the courts and our culture will have for the old and infirm does not seem likely to be significant considering the precedent of the non-protection given to the unborn.

03.07.2021 Almost daily we hear statements from so-called “devout, practicing Catholics” who advocate for law and practices that disrespect the sanctity of human life. There are some who lead family foundations that, under the guise of helping the poor and “bringing the Catholic Church back to its social justice roots”, who are advocates for Planned Parenthood; all forms of contraception, sterilization; unfettered destruction of the unborn up until birth; and global population control. One of the “great viruses” of our day is “Cafeteria Catholicism” —– those who claim to be Catholic but who ignore God’s revelation in promoting public policies that make a mockery of God’s revelation. When people claim to be Catholic but ignore the teaching of the Church they are doing immense damage to their own souls as well as causing great harm to the public.

02.28.2021 In the April 1972 Supreme Court decision in Sierra v Morton, Justice Douglas wrote in the dissenting view, “The ordinary corporation is a ‘person" . . . So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland or even air.” In 1973 he agreed with Roe v Wade decision saying children are not persons. Today in our country, corporations, trees, beaches, wetlands are rigorously protected. Unborn children, being declared by law not to be persons, are afforded no protection and can be exterminated without consequence of law.

02.21.2021 Our society has a tendency to push to the edges of our own lives the plights of our vulnerable members. In today’s youth-obsessed culture the elderly become invisible. We are uncomfortable around the disabled who struggle with physical and mental limitations and we distance ourselves. We are shamed by our indifference to the epidemic murder of the unborn and close our eyes, ears and hearts to their now silent cries. We become busy with life and we forget that in God’s plan all life is sacred. Life is lived in many forms and should be celebrated in all of its times and stages from fertilization to earthly birth to the moment when our last breath is drawn and we are born to eternal life.

02.14.2021 A 12-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy says, “I can’t walk or feed myself but I am not ‘suffering from cerebral palsy’. I use a wheelchair but I am not ‘confined to a wheelchair’. I have pain but I do not need to be ‘put out of my misery’. “ She is keenly aware that “normal” people can use their erroneous assumptions about the “quality” of her life to justify withholding care for her as an act of “mercy”. If we permit euthanizing the disabled or elderly by withholding food and water or by any other means, it is at its core an act of total selfishness. The reality is that instead of “putting them out of their misery”, we are putting them out of ours.

02.07.2021 Legislators pass laws to legally kill a baby on the day it is born, and it is celebrated. We are in the midst of pure evil. We have an enemy of the unborn who flaunts Church teachings and who is ruling by fiat while on a mission to destroy hard won protections for the pre-born in our nation and internationally. We are in the midst of pure evil. When Jesus was a baby, satan prompted the government to murder babies. We have a different government but the same old demons. We are in the midst of pure evil. Christians, this is not a time to let discouragement get you down. Though it may look like satan has won, this is just one battle in the spiritual warfare in which we find ourselves. God will win the war. Keep the faith. Don't give up. We need to trust in Jesus now more than ever. Look up, fast and pray, hold on to your faith and its Truth with all your heart, mind and soul. God is on His throne. He is still in control.

01.31.202 In today's world, violent graphic images that would have been forbidden a few years ago are now common place. Frequently, pictures and information about the Holocaust are readily displayed. Hollywood made a movie about the slaughter in Rwanda. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had an exhibit of human cadavers without their skin (including a pregnant woman with her unborn child visible in the womb.) Though these pictures are now common, many become incensed if we show a picture of an aborted, mutilated baby. It may offend our tender sesnsibilities. The Pr-Life movement now accepts using images of an aborted baby in our educational efforts. Because, it says in one second that ehich even the most well-informed advocate for life could not say in two hours. It says, "This is a human beingand it is dead."

01.24.2021 Civilized societies restrict individual freedoms when that "choice" would harm an innocent person. Does a man have the freedom to rape a woman if that is his choice? After all, it is his body, why do we have a right to tell him what to do with it? Why do we have a right to impose our morals on him? By emphasizing a rapist’s right to choose, we clearly are completely ignoring the rights of the woman. The pro-choice position always overlooks the victim’s right to choose. Women don’t choose rape. African Americans didn’t choose slavery. The Jews didn’t choose gas chambers. And babies don’t choose to be aborted.

01.17.2021 However we choose to look at it, THE UNITED STATES has forever changed. In an instant, the hope we held for a continuing, successful future for the Culture of Life has seemingly evaporated. Going forward, some important questions for patriotic Christians: Are we still standing in faith and trust that this great country WILL be in the hands of God Almighty and He will carry out His glorious plan? This truly is a battle for the soul of this great nation. Good vs evil. Spiritual warfare. Put on the breastplate of righteousness and the full armor of God as the road has gotten bumpy. There is a price for freedom and peace and we must stand willing to pay that price for the future of our children, our grandchildren, our Faith and this nation gifted to us by Almighty God. His Word tells us that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. And, through it all, Jesus remains on the Throne. Keep the Faith!

01.10.2021 Amnesty International, just one of numerous organizations we might not think to be among those who are a “clanging bell” extolling society’s support of abortion, defines it as follows: “An abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. It is a basic healthcare need for millions of women, girls and others who can become pregnant” (whom ever that may be). Christians must not be deceived by these words. It is a definition straight from the pit of hell. Then, what is abortion? Abortion is a mother killing her child, a doctor killing his patient, and, sadly, a world turning its back. Abortion kills a unique human being. There will never be another person like the one the abortionist murdered.

01.03.2021 Increasingly, we read reports on the mass abortion of children who are determined to have Down syndrome through prenatal testing. Countries like Iceland, for example, have all but eliminated such babies from being born. In Denmark, which aggressively tests expectant mothers, some 95 percent of the babies testing positive for Down are aborted. Horrified, people used to associate eugenics with the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes. Indeed, once human life is found to be disposable in some circumstances, the policy is easily expanded to other “unwanted” humans—whether physically disabled or those holding unapproved opinions. Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is the scourge of eugenics. It is back. It has gone mainstream. And is just the beginning. Saint Augustine says that there can only be two basic loves: The love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. This latter love is the sad state of today’s postmodern society. Framing the murder of babies with Down Syndromes as a “choice" simply because of who God created them to be is a disturbing commentary on the depths of moral depravity to which our increasingly Godless culture has fallen. We may not have lost our minds...but, how about our souls?

It's a Matter of Life 2021