"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.
These are Sanctity of Life weekly bulletin reflections.
​12.25.2011     Christmas is about the hope of eternal life offered through the birth of a child and through our birth into the life of God by our faith. Christmas illuminates the meaning and value of every human life. In the light coming from the manger we can see every person in each stage of their humanity from conception to natural death as being one called to share in the God’s plan for the human race. How can a Christian then who recognizes that the human person is called to the very heights of heaven stand idly by as those same human beings are disposed of by euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, or abortion?
​12.18.2011     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 conception to earthly birth to the moment of when our last breath is drawn and we are born to eternal life.
​12.11.2011     When even one human life is devalued, all human lives lose value. The unborn, unplanned child; aging citizens who are being characterized as “burdens” on our medical system; embryos in fertility clinics identified as “excess” and therefore deemed expendable; a person with any disability; cognitively impaired accident victims who require assistance to meet even their most basic needs are at risk each day in our hedonistic society of being declared a “life unworthy of life.” And, each of us becomes poorer when the value of these lives is diminished.
​12.04.2011     By the end of the recently concluded 40 Days For Life Fall campaign, 541 international confirmed “saves” of babies who were scheduled for abortion were counted among the answered prayers. Numerous abortion workers were so moved by seeing faithful people praying on the sidewalks that they decided to leave the industry altogether. As our own parishioners stood on the sidewalks outside of various area abortion mills praying the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet, they humbly fulfilled the mission of the Church to save souls. They knew that what is needed to save souls is for someone to show courage, to pray, to reach out and to love the mothers, fathers and workers away from the sin of abortion.
​11.27.2011     So called hormonal “contraceptives” are regularly dispensed at Planned Parenthood and other “Family Planning” facilities in our area -- even to minors without the need for parental consent. Considering that science agrees with what has been Catholic teaching from the beginning that a distinct and unique human life begins at the moment of conception, the “pill” causes starvation of the nascent human life by altering the lining of the uterus and making it impossible for the newly conceived baby to implant and draw life sustaining nourishment from the mother. The current estimate is that 330 million American babies, many of them Catholic, have starved since 1973 because the “pill”.
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11.20.2011     “I can’t impose my beliefs on others.” --- a statement we frequently hear from politicians straddling the fence of political correctness. What if Americans had been willing to accept this justification for tolerating slavery? In their wisdom, our forefathers took away the “rights” of slave owners in order to give freedom and respect to African American people. In America today, abortion flourishes under the least restrictive laws of any nation on earth. Abortion is legal from conception right up until the last minute before birth with no restriction and for any reason. Our unborn children are still slaves to the life and death decisions of others.
​11.13.2011     A very dark philosophy is spreading like wildfire among the global elite. This philosophy is an obsessive belief that humanity has become a cancer that is destroying the earth. There are now large numbers of global leaders that are convinced that the exploding population of the world has become like a virus or a plague, and that it must be combated as such. Those who believe in this philosophy are constantly talking about the need for "increased access" to abortion, contraception and sterilization. In India a father is dragged on stage in front of 200,000 and berated for having too many children. In Peru a mother is coerced into trading her fertility for a few bags of groceries. In China a family’s house is bulldozed because they had a second child. This is the ugly face of population control.
​11.06.2011     In March 2010, in spite of the objections stated by the USCCB, the health care reform legislation became law. The statute appropriated billions of dollars in new funding without explicitly prohibiting the use of these funds for abortion, and provided federal subsidies for health plans covering elective abortions. Additionally, the statute forces all those who choose federally subsidized plans that cover abortion, to pay for other peoples’ abortions with their own funds. The statute fails to include necessary language to provide essential conscience protections to Catholic physicians and health care workers. Ohio Issue 3 is a voter-initiated constitutional amendment that allows Ohioans and insurers to opt out of the new federal health care provisions requiring the purchase of health insurance coverage. Ohioans can preserve their freedom to choose healthcare coverage free of abortion funding and healthcare rationing.
​10.30.2011      We are a people of life and for life. We defend the right of every child to be born. We defend the rights of the old and the sick to be cared for with love and compassion until their natural death. We strive to preserve the mystery of marriage as the union of man and woman in the plan of God. We strive for justice for the immigrant, the imprisoned, the hungry and the homeless. This is who we are as Catholics.
​10.23.2011     October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The International Agency for Research on Cancer reports that oral contraceptives (OC) are taken by 100 million worldwide. OC are steroids and are known carcinogens -- they cause cancer. For decades, study after study has shown that having had an abortion is the greatest predictor of breast cancer, raising the risk by 30%. Listen closely to the hype lauding “awareness” during the “think pink” initiatives this month. You will never hear these facts mentioned. The Catholic Conference of Ohio Bishops suspended support this year for the most prominent name of all "pink" campaigns, Susan B. Komen. The moral implications of abortion and contraception aside, women and their health deserve better than the 30 years of “pink” denial of these major causes of breast cancer.
10.16.2011    Thirty nine years is a long time -- years when a majority of God’s people have turned a deaf ear as a death toll from surgical dismemberment of innocent children and now approaching 55 million mounts daily -- while countless more have died from chemical abortion --while hundreds of millions have died from supposed “contraceptives." Only a remnant of God’s people open their ears to the sound of the “blood that cries out from the soil” and they have been doing it for years, some for decades because the majority is nowhere to be found. The majority, not wanting to be made uncomfortable choose to look the other way -- not to care. The danger to society from this denial is well described by Aristotle: “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying civilization”.
10.09.2011     Abortion is legal in all 50 states as is euthanasia legal in 3 states. Throughout history man’s laws have made “legal” acts that have trampled upon and denied basic human rights…laws denying the vote to women and African Americans, laws allowing extermination camps, slavery, and 2000 years ago crucifixion was the law. Faithful Catholics have a moral duty to inform themselves about today’s bad laws and to act end the evil resulting from those laws. To ignore the existence of those laws today and to remain silent has serious consequences for individuals. While not knowing may not be a sin, refusing to know is.
​10.02.2011     We will never know God’s plan for the tens of millions of lives brutally ended in America’s abortion mills or starved by abortifacient “contraceptives” These children may have become great priests, inventors, scientists, doctors or diplomats. And yet, their potential value to society does not come from how productive or famous they may have become. Even the most humble and obscure life is as valuable and has as many human rights as the most famous and notable person in history.
​09.25.2011     “…I assure you as often as you did it for any of my brothers, you did it for me.” Matt 25:40 Jesus tells that He is in the one who is hungry, thirsty, naked sick and in prison. Just as surely, Christ is also in the child struggling and squirming in the womb as he attempts to dodge the instruments that will destroy his life. As we seek to fulfill our mission of social justice may we see Christ and feel his presence in every human person including the human person in the womb.
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​09.18.2011      “Why don’t you people give up?” (Expletives deleted) a motorist shouted as we prayed in front of an abortion mill. Ezekiel probably heard similar remarks as he followed God’s command to “preach to the dry bones”. Ezek 37:3-4 He preached anyway and the bones came to life. Faced with the same dilemma we will continue to “preach to the dry bones” about the evil of abortion. Even if we are thought foolish, we will not and dare not disobey or distrust God.
​09.11.2011     To paraphrase Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life - In our language 'love' can have many meanings. The truest meaning of love can be found at the foot of the Cross where it means, II sacrifice myself for the good of another person." Abortion, on the other hand, means, "I sacrifice another person for the good of myself."
​09.04.2011    When God created us He included some characteristics now deemed to be "imperfections". Seeking to improve on God's work, the "science for science sake" crowd works to weed out the disabled and different using infanticide, euthanasia & eventually genetic engineering. it defies the imagination that Jesus' "Love one another" has been superseded by man's "Eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferers."
​08.28.2011     In the April 1972 Supreme Court decision in Sierra v Morton, Mr. 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.
​08.21.2011     The US is joining Japan, Europe and China, the other postmodern secular nations, in committing cultural and economic suicide. The US is now top-heavy with aging baby boomers due to the practices of contraception and its evil sister abortion. Elderly dependents now outnumber young producers. Young people are the backbone of nations and we spend hundreds of millions to exterminate ours while exporting their elimination in the rest of the world through the UN and Planned Parenthood.
​08.14.2011      Planned Parenthood (PP) receives $11 from taxpayers every second. Every 96 seconds PP kills an unborn child with that money. From the June break this year until school resumes 255,000 boys and girls will have been surgically killed. That equates to 8516 future empty classrooms where children would have been preparing to enter the workforce and lead productive lives with families of their own while paying federal income and social security as well as state and local taxes, buying cars, homes appliances, and other consumer goods---all of the elements that drive our economy. Considering the current state of our economy we ought to be asking ourselves, “Why would we pay PP to kill the soul of our nation, crash our economy and destroy the fabric our once great nation?”


08.07.2011    . . . .“How many times can a man turn his back and pretend he just doesn’t see?” . . . . . "How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows that too many people have died?” . . . .

We could just as well ask these two questions, posed in a song from the peace movement from the 1960's, about the shameful numbers of abortions in our country since Roe v. Wade in 1973. Since the number of surgical abortions has now reached 53 million, apparently we can turn our heads more than 53 million times and pretend we just don’t see and just as apparently 53 million deaths are not enough for us to know that too many people have died.   ​

Blowin' in the Wind  by Bob Dylan
​07.31.2011     The language of our times is often constructed to deceive us as the words obscure the real issues. Such are the attempts to justify assisted suicide and euthanasia using pretty words. All human life is sacred and valuable even when defaced by pain and suffering. We must guard against the con job of calculating the value of human life. Often a supposedly compassionate concern for the “quality of life” of an afflicted person is really an excuse for killing people who aren’t as healthy as their killers.
​07.24.2011     Our Catholic faith does not teach that we are obliged to take every treatment or procedure available to keep us alive. Choosing not to undergo a worthless treatment is not suicide or euthanasia. We must remember that while worthless treatments do exist there is no such thing as a worthless life. We may reject a treatment but never a human life. Only God has dominion over human life and over its coming and going.
​07.17.2011     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.
​07.10.2011      The 1960's gave rise to a new kind of politician---a group of "PO Butters". These are people of any political party who primarily claim to be "catholic'. Lacking the courage of their convictions and straddling the cowardly fence of "political correctness", they claim that they are "personally opposed to abortion but" (thus 'PO Butters") "would do nothing to stop others from aborting". Pray in the next election cycle we are informed enough to weed out these politicians who happen to be catholic and replace them with Catholics who happen to be politicians.
​07.03.2011     In 1965 the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), which was founded in 1951, changed their definition of pregnancy as beginning at the moment of implantation. For 2000 years, the Catholic Church has consistently taught that pregnancy begins at the moment of conception. These definitions are mutually contradictory. Both cannot be true. Whom shall we choose to believe when we make decisions about the use of so-called “contraceptives” that can end an already conceived human life, the fallible human “wisdom” of ACOG or the eternal and unchanging Truth of the Church of Jesus Christ?
​06.26.2011     Our culture and media bombard us with deceptive rationalizations, reasons and false hopes as to why we should embrace euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning, contraception, and abortion. By accepting these inherently evil concepts, we are encouraged to appropriate the very role of God himself. Our Catholic faith, teaches from the very beginning that, “It is God who remains the sovereign Master of Life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for His honor and then salvation of souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of”. CCC 2280.
​06.19.2011     On this Father’s Day, here is a reflection by General Douglas Macarthur on life, the role of fathers and Faith. "By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven.” Through our faith in Jesus each one us may call our Heavenly Father "Abba", the Hebrew intimate word for "daddy." Today, may all our earthly “daddies” have a blessed and happy Father’s Day!
​06.12.2011     The annual number of world-wide induced abortions is estimated at 42 million or one in five pregnancies. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is murder---a mortal sin. There are 1 billion people in the world who identify themselves as Catholics. Can you imagine the outcome if one billion people said, “Stop. We will not stand for this!” The reality is the number “one billion” is beyond our imagination and making a plan to have all the other Catholics take a stand to stop this evil is beyond us. The number “one”, however, is easily comprehendible. The “one” Catholic we have complete control over is our self. Will we have the courage to follow the teaching of our faith from the beginning and say, “ Stop. I will not stand for this!”?
​06.05.2011     From artificial contraception, to abortion, to partial-birth abortion, to infanticide, to killing those who, if allowed to continue to live, would consume a greater quantity of resources than their debilitated bodies and minds would make it possible for them to produce, we march toward the abyss of oblivion, the impending suicide of a once great nation, a society marked for death. When Adam and Eve succumbed to Lucifer’s temptation that they “could be like Gods”, death came in to the world. Our society falls into the same trap when it takes it upon itself to decide who lives and who dies. God’s just consequences for our disobedience are the same in America 2011 as they were in the Garden. May God have Mercy on us.
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​05.29.2011     This weekend we honor those who gave their lives in service to our country and reflect upon the loss of potential and hope their deaths represent. Let us remember the same sadness brought about by the loss of all children who went to heaven early. Whether they were lost through abortion, miscarriage, still birth, illness or accident, whether they lived years or never took a single breath, they remain a part of us. On this Memorial Day weekend, let us also honor them by remembering their lives. The agony of the mother or father who lost a child through war or any means is unimaginable. May our remembering the life of their lost children help heal a place in their hearts.
05.22.2011     Abortion is the most common surgical procedure and the number one killer in America. Every day, women are intentionally misled by the merchants of death and deception to sacrifice their innocent pre-born babies on the altar of convenience. Each child, uniquely created by the hand of God, killed by abortionists that are the lowest rung of the medical profession, in abortuaries that are less regulated than veterinary clinics, facts that you will never see exposed by the media, is the conspiracy of silence made manifest. By knowing these awful facts, remaining silent, and failing to personally take action, we sin. “…to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.”     James 4: 1
​05.15.2011     Jesus, Himself, walked into the moral sewers of his time; picked up the wounded, even as they spit in His face, and loved them. He told us if we were to call ourselves His disciples, then each day we must pick up our crosses and follow Him. As we pray on the sidewalks of abortion mills, the borders of our modern day Moloch the god of child sacrifice, we encounter those who attempt to defile us with words and gestures. As distracting as this can be, our role must never be to condemn those who would criticize us for praying there, or even those performing the evil deeds inside of these death mills, and most especially not those tortured souls who are arriving for the "services" provided therein. Our singular role is being present as witnesses of our Christ and His all encompassing love -- a witness that has and will continue to be used by the Holy Spirit to change hearts and minds.
05.08.2011     This Mother's Day we celebrate a great Pro-Life holiday. So much of our time and energy is expended (as it must be) focusing on the tragedy of abortion. Let us celebrate the gift of life and give thanks to mothers everywhere. Our message to the world isn't a cry to limit a woman's actions, but rather is a wholehearted affirmation that what is best for unborn children also happens to be best for their mothers as well. To Our Blessed Mother for saying "Yes" and for giving us the gift of Jesus; and to our own mothers for giving us the gift of our lives, we say, "Thanks, Mom. Happy Mother's Day!
​04.23.2011     There is the story of a German boy born April 29, 1945. When he was studying history in school 15 years later, he learned that American forces liberated the Dachau concentration camp on that same date. His curiosity led him to read more. He asked his parents and grandparents if, at the time it was occurring, they knew of it. They ashamedly nodded that they did know. He asked, “What did you do about it?” and they had no answer. How will American parents and grandparents of today respond when they are asked if they knew about the American holocaust of abortion that has already cost almost nine times the number of lives as did the Nazi holocaust? How will they respond to the question, “What did you do about it?”
​04.17.2011     Here is a timely question. During this time of fiscal crisis in our country, should we be subsidizing America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, which in the last fiscal year alone took over $360 million in taxpayer funds while ending the lives of 324,008 unborn children through surgical abortion? When the rider to defund this organization was removed from the federal budget bill last week in order to secure its passage, the action was hailed as having “saved” the economy by averting a government shutdown. Responding to this kind of logic, Blessed Mother Teresa asked, “When mothers can kill their children, what is there left of a civilization to save?
04.10.2011     Advocates for the unborn are asked, "Aren’t you concerned for your own safety when you stand vigil in front of abortion mills?" The answer is that we have to stop looking for risk-free places to take a stand. There is a calculus in the heavens that says, “Greater love than this nobody has, than to lay down his life for his friend.” If our mission is to protect the unborn, then we must be willing to speak up and speak out anywhere and everywhere. It is a symptom of our self-centered society to first count the cost to ourselves before we take any action. We know all too well the costs to them if we are silent. The deaths of 52 million innocents can now be counted as a cost of our silence. The pro-life movement does not need a lot of people; it needs people who are willing to take a lot of risk.
04.03.2011     "Certainly too few people know that the chemical contraceptives can have an abortifacient effect — that is, they work by causing the endometrium to be insufficiently friendly to an embryonic human being. Women who use chemical contraceptives may nonetheless conceive. If a woman forgets to take the pill or takes the pill at a different time of the day than usual, or is taking other medication that might interfere with the working of the pill, she may ovulate and conceive a child. As the new little human being tries to implant in his or her mother’s uterus, he or she may find the atmosphere of the womb inhospitable. Women who use the pill may regularly be spontaneously aborting a very small baby. ”No woman knows how the pill or any of the chemical contraceptives is working in her body: Are they preventing ovulation, conception or implantation?"
Dr. Janet Smith
​03.27.2011     Because the subject of abortion makes people uncomfortable, we are told of reasons why it should be avoided. We’re told it’s too political to be talked about in Church; that it should be avoided in the political arena because it is a religious issue; when it is spoken of in the media, people find it disturbing; in the educational realm it must be avoided because, being a religious issue, it crosses the line of separation between Church and State; in front of abortion facilities on public sidewalks the mere presence of people praying is an unkind attempt to bring shame on the women entering; in business world it’s too controversial; at family functions it’s too divisive; and in social settings it’s just plain impolite. Our Church teaches that abortion is an intrinsic evil, where should we go to say so?


03.20.2011     Redemptive suffering is the Roman Catholic teaching that human suffering, when accepted and offered up in union with Christ’s Passion, can remit the just punishment for one's sins or for the sins of another and reduce the penalty due for sin.
03.13.2011     Several government agencies recently put a dollar value on a single human life. The EPA says that one life is worth $9.1 million, the FDA $7.9 million, and the DOT $6 million. Taking the DOT's low-ball estimate of a mere $6 Million per person and multiplying it times 52 million, the number of surgical abortions since Roe v Wade, the total value of human life lost to our nation due to slaughtering our innocent children is $31,200,000,000,000 ($31.2 Trillion). If the number of lives lost and missing due to contraception were added, how many zeros would follow the number and what would we call that number? We cannot even imagine such numbers. Abortion and contraception are defined by our Church as being intrinsically evil. Whatever name we would give to a number with so many zeros, that unimaginable number is the cost of unimaginable evil.
​03.06.2011     Abraham Lincoln said, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men”. Catherine of Siena wrote: “Cry out as if you had a million voices, it is silence that kills the world.” Faithful Catholics must heed the words of St. Catherine, find our voices and speak in unison as the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in which we affirm our faith at Mass and denounce the evils of infanticide, genocide, euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, and human cloning. We must refuse the silence that is complicity with evil. Through our words and actions we are called to defend all human life at every stage of life.
​02.27.2011     “To claim the right to abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in the law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the true death of freedom.”     Evangelium Vitae- The Gospel of Life Pope John Paul II 1995.
02.20.2011     An oxymoron is a phrase that contains self contradictory words. The anti-life crowd has engineered just such a term to hide the reality of the abortion business. The sanitized term “abortion clinic” is used commonly to denote these places of evil. The fact is a clinic is a place where people go for healing, not to have someone else killed. The term “abortion mill” more accurately describes these places that cycle through large numbers of mothers in short periods of time destroying the largest possible number of children. We need to avoid giving credence to these evil practices. One way is to deny their deception by refusing to use their language.
02.13.2011     Free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right of the people to peaceably assemble, the right to liberty and the right to life---each a right, among others, guaranteed to U.S. citizens when ratified by congressional action on December 15, 1791 in the Bill of Rights. On January 22, 1973, a judicial action defined a new right---the “right” to abortion. Defenders of abortion, more factually known as infanticide, often say that the exercise of this particular right “should be rare”. None of the explicit rights guaranteed to our citizens by Congress is ever watered down by saying it should only be exercised rarely. Though “legal” for 38 years, this so-called “right” to an abortion bears no similarity to any of our other Constitutional rights. "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." ​Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
​02.06.2011     A society is measured by the way it treats its young, old, helpless and ill. As Christians, we are called to minister not to murder, and make no mistake, euthanasia, deviously called "mercy killing" is murder. There have been at least 3,147 deaths from euthanasia reported worldwide. Assisted suicide is now legal in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland and the Netherlands. While the state’s ears may be closed to the evil of the "mercy killings" going on in America and the world, God’s ears are not closed. His warning for us is clear in Proverbs 21: 13, “He who closes his ears to the cry of the helpless will himself not be heard.”
01.30.2011     Euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning and abortion are each acts of implacable evil. Collectively and individually the rate of these acts continues to increase. This growth goes on unabated and met largely with inaction, apathy and silence on the part of Christians who should be speaking out and taking action to defend all of human life. “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
01.23.2011     A woman does not have a right to choose to bring her baby to term or to kill him. A man does not have the right to decide when the time has come to conclude his life and seek assisted suicide or euthanasia. When citizens of a nation are taxed to pay for evil deeds, it is time that we stand up for life and for justice. It is criminal that the abortion giant of Planned Parenthood should receive hundreds of millions of dollars in the form of government grants and contracts to kill babies. No society has the right to legalize abortion, assisted suicide or euthanasia, much less to use public funds for that evil purpose. On Monday, January 24th ¸hundreds of thousands of people in cities throughout our nation will publicly witness to their love for life and pray that abortion and all assaults on human life will be totally banned in our land. God hears prayers whether they come from Washington DC, San Francisco or Geauga County. Wherever you are on Monday, won’t you join in prayer for the sanctity of human life?

01.16.2011     The observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 17 and the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 24, should gives us pause to remember his example of speaking up against injustice and violence and consider how we respond to the growing prevalence of evil in our present day culture. We should ask ourselves what we will do in light of the evil of euthanasia and destruction of nascent human life. Two quotes from Dr. King sum up what we really do if we if we fail to speak up. (1) “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”  (2) "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
01.09.2011     It is an indictment of our society when people feel that they have lost their dignity at the end of life. Why have we made them feel less dignified? It's not the job of a dying person to feel significant; it's our job to show them that they are significant. Euthanasia kills a person twice. The first time is when we look at their life and say: "You're right. Your life really isn't worth living." And the second time is when we actually kill them. Pope Benedict XVI teaches, “…euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering, a solution unworthy of man."
​01.02.2011     A question often derisively directed to advocates for human life is, “Don’t you people ever tire of talking about the same old issue?” The point missed in this question is that this is not an “old” issue. Abortion yesterday is not the same as abortion today because the 3356 babies who will die today never died before! Each abortion is a NEW tragedy and it demands a new response, a new voice of indignation that the horror is tolerated, and a new resolve to bring the injustice an end.