Pro-life rescuers immediately incarcerated following jury’s guilty verdict in DC FACE Act trial

A jury on Tuesday found five pro-life activists guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and conspiracy against rights. They were immediately incarcerated following the verdict and could face more than a decade in prison for their efforts to prevent women from killing their preborn babies.

In a statement to LifeSiteNews at the courthouse on Tuesday, defendant William Goodman urged his supporters “to forgive the jury, the judge, and all those who witnessed against us, and to pray that they would see how God loves the gift of every human life.”

For the complete story, go to LIFESITE News. 

Note:  Have you noted that we have not heard a word from the Archdiocese of Washington over this?  Their silence says so much about our leadership. 

Hate and Ugliness at George Washington University

Got to give these guys credit, they were up against a really hateful crowd.

Thanks to Church Militant.  Click here. 

UnPlanned - The Movie

This past week, I attended the move UnPlanned.

I have a couple of observations:

• I went to see it a the Regal Theater in downtown Silver Spring, MD.  When I purchased my ticket, I was shown that there were only about 20 available seats left.  I was shocked, as I did not think that there would be that many people attending at 6pm on a Wednesday evening.   I was wrong.  There were only about 20 people in attendance.  I wonder if Regal was attempting to restrict the number of people attending the movie.   Considering the resistance of Hollywood and the media to this, I wouldn't put it past that Regal was part of this.
• No wonder why the mainstream media does not you to see this.  It is so moving, it will really make the most strident pro-abortion person really think hard, about what they are doing.

All I can tell you GO SEE IT and support a pro-life movie.  You will not be disappointed.

Another Reason Why the Pope Must Resign!

December 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Professor Marie-Jo Thiel, a new member of the revamped Pontifical Academy for Life, recently said that the Church's teaching on sexuality and family should be thoroughly reconsidered. She pointed to Pope Francis’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia as having given Catholics more freedom.

The Church’s teachings on sexuality have been a “complete failure,” she said. Thiel rejects the Church’s teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and can never be approved. She also firmly rejects the Church’s ban on contraception.

Professor Thiel made her comments at an event at the Catholic Academy in Freiburg, Germany, according to Katholisch.de, the German bishops’ news website. She was speaking in her capacity as the President of the European Society of Catholic Theology. Thiel is a French medical doctor and theologian and currently teaches theology at the University of Strasbourg, France.

For the full article, go to LifeSiteNews. 

Catholic Relief Services is a major funder of contraception lobbyists

July 23, 2018 (Lepanto Institute) – The majority of the largest international aid and development agencies are all intertwined, like a big net, so it is not uncommon for an investigation of one part of this net to provide leads for new investigations.  While researching the involvement of Catholic organizations in the Sphere Project, the Lepanto Institute discovered three Catholic agencies identified as dues-paying members of an organization that strongly and openly pushes contraception.

For the complete story, go to:  LifeSite News.

Congratulations to Sacred Heart Council #2577 (KofC)

Sacred Heart Council of Bowie, MD hosted its 19th Dave Grabowski Memorial Pro-Life Classic to benefit The Gabriel Network.  The event raised $12,000 to support this pro-life ministry.   Here is their website.  

Thanks to Melvin for sharing this with me.  

If your Council would like to be recognized for pro-life work, please send me an email with the details.  awashingtondccatholic@gmail.com

Update: No charges for pro-life activists arrested inside abortion center

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The District of Columbia has dropped all charges against two pro-life activists who refused to leave an abortion facility as part of a “Red Rose Rescue” on Saturday. The third, a Catholic priest, got off with a citation that veteran activists say will likely be dismissed.

To read the full story, please go to LifeSiteNews. 

Three Arrested after Entering Abortion Clinic in DC

WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — A priest and three women shut down a Washington, DC, area abortion center Saturday morning for over an hour during a Red Rose Rescue.

Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Lauren Handy, Adele Gilhooley and a woman who identifies herself as “Baby Jane Doe” entered Capital Women’s Services, an abortion center run by Steven Brigham at 6323 Georgia Ave, NW, Washington, DC, at about 9:00 a.m., on May 26.

For the complete report, please go to:  Life Site News

Systemic Anti-Catholicism at the FBI? I hope not!

The text message exchange between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress FBI attorney Lisa Page is below:

FBI agent Strzok: “F*cking marchers making traffic problems.”
FBI attorney Page: “Yeah, some extremely offensive video screens set up in front of district. I truly hate these people. No support for the woman who actually has to spend the rest of her life rearing this child, but we care about ‘life.’ Assholes.”
FBI agent Strzok: “...Hey, I have an idea! Snow emergency, cancel the permit.”

To read the complete article, go here:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-lifers-ask-for-meeting-with-fbi-director-over-agents-texts-trashing 

Do you use Twitter? How it protects Planned Parenthood!

Increasingly, media outlets and pro-choice politicians are labeling pro-life groups with these derogatory terms and openly calling on social media outlets to censor pro-life voices, especially those with increasingly large online followings.

Learn how Twitter is doing this to pro-life groups by going to this Washington Examiner article. 

Satan and Kaine

For more: http://catholicsagainstclintonkaine.blogspot.com/

Pro-Life: An Awakening Conference (September 24,2016)

This was forwarded to me a short time ago.  I thought that I would share.

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A little background on how we got here - last year, I read a book entitled Persuasive Pro-Life: How to Talk About Our Culture's Toughest Issues by Trent Horn (Catholic Answers, www.catholic.com).  It changed my life.  After completing the book, I knew it was the resource that needed to be in the hands of every pro-lifer.  The book is a synthesis of all the very best pro-life defenses for pro-choice arguments by Mr. Horn who has a decade of experience defending life where it matters most - person-to-person.  I thought, "What if every pro-life person utilized Trent's gracious and persuasive approach and just changed the mind of one other person?"  What if?  Could we change the county?  The state?  The country?  So, with my husband, Seth, my partner in crime Kitty LaHood Adams, and Charles County Right to Life president, Sid Marcus, we began a book study of Persuasive Pro-Life this past January.

What began as a book study has blossomed into a fledgling grassroots movement.  Here's where our pro-life conference, Pro-Life: An Awakening comes in.  We've asked Trent Horn, the author, to come and speak to as many pro-lifers as we can pack into the St. Joseph's Parish Center, in a seminar-style speaking engagement.  We're pairing Trent Horn's powerful keynote address with an afternoon session on using your power as a Maryland constituent and voter and an impact session designed to send everyone in attendance out like Christ sent His disciples to change the world!  We know with enough support and attendees, we can do something about the culture of death in this country by first changing our community into a culture of life. 

The conference website, which is the best way to find out more and to keep abreast of updates, is www.somdpro-life.com.  Right now, the Trent Horn Keynote, lunch, a pro-life networking fair, and both afternoon workshops is just $10 at the Early Bird Registration rate!  We've purposely kept registration low and sought outside sponsorship so that this event is truly open and accessible to everyone.  The pertinent information is as follows:

When: Saturday, September 24, 2016

Where: St. Joseph Catholic Church, 4590 St. Joseph's Way, Pomfret, MD 20675

·         8:00 - Registration Check In and Breakfast

·         8:45 - Welcome and Introductions

·         9:00 - Noon - Persuasive Pro-Life presented by Trent Horn

·         Noon - 1 - Lunch and Networking Fair

·         1 - 2:30 - Annapolis 101 presented by Maryland March for Life

·         2:45-3:30 - IMPACT!  Presented by the Holy Family Respect Life

God bless,

Ali

www.somdpro-life.com

Fr. Majano has Thousands on Their Feet Applauding a True Hero

“Now I think that I can truly see that the true hero is someone who will let nothing — absolutely nothing, no matter how big, how small — get in the way of defending what they know to be true, of living with that mission of defending the smallest part of our society, of defending what they know comes directly from God.”

Fr. Majano related at the January 22 event how he happens to know just such a hero, a woman who “against all obstacles, against all trials, stood firm, and would not budge, would not move from what her beliefs were, when everything else in her life seemed to sway.”

To read the full story, from a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, go to LifeSite News:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/this-pro-life-story-made-bishops-cardinals-and-a-papal-nuncio-rise-to-their

What is Human?

MoCo Council President Conspires with NARAL to Shut Down Pro-Life Centers

E-mails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request have revealed that Maryland government officials and activists with the state chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America have been working closely together on a legal effort to shut down a local pro-life pregnancy care center. 

The e-mails have also revealed a seven-part plan developed by NARAL to shut down pro-life pregnancy care centers that could indicate a nationwide strategy.

In 2010, Montgomery County passed an ordinance requiring Centro Tepeyac Silver Spring Women's Center and other pro-life pregnancy care clinics to post signs stating that they did not have doctors on staff. The county claimed it wanted to prevent pro-life clinics from giving women misleading information.

To read more, click here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-e-mails-reveal-maryland-officials-collaborating-with-naral-to-shu

If you are as upset as I am, then you may contact:

Contact:

Montgomery County Council
Phone: 240-777-7900
E-mail: county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov

George Leventhal, President
Phone: 240-777-7811
E-mail: councilmember.leventhal@montgomerycountymd.gov

Four Fathers by Dan LaHood

As my readers know, I am a supporter of the St. Joseph House in Silver Spring, MD.   The St. Joseph House is a day care and respite care facility run by Cubby and Dan LaHood.  It has operated for over 30 years and I have known both of them for about 12 years.

Dan has written an article in Humanum magazine entitled: Four Fathers.  It shares the stories of four fathers and the children they have loved.

It is a moving article and I hope that Dan continues to write and share these stories of the love of a father.

At the beginning of our ministry we had no idea where any of this would lead. It was and is chaotic, joyful, inspirational, wearying, sad, edifying, instructive. It is a life we could not have imagined but one we now cannot imagine having not lived. Mother Teresa was reported to have described a child with a disability the “treasure of mankind.” That may be apocryphal, but we have found it to be absolutely true. Many of the kids who came to our home over the years have died, but every year at Christmas their parents return. And they tell us how they miss their son, their daughter. They tell us, not in so many words, that the love they had for their child was the life they could not have imagined before their child arrived; but one they could not have imagined not living once the child was here. This is true for the Isaiah's Promise parents as well as the Saint Joseph's House parents. Not one carries any regret, whether their child lived for minutes or decades, that that person was part of their lives. Their life to them was a Gift, a Pearl of Great Price, if you will.

To read the entire article, go here: http://humanumreview.com/articles/dan-lahoods-witness 

And, if you are moved by Dan's words, then make a donation to: http://saintjosephshouse.net/Contact_Us.html

St. Joseph House Benefit

As many of my reader's know, I have been a supporter of the St. Joseph House for a number of years.   Cubby, Dan and their children have done excellent work over the years and are strong pro-life advocates.  Doing what they do, is the essence of being pro-life.  

Each year, an annual benefit dinner is conducted to help support their efforts.  Although I cannot do what they do, I do support them both financially and spiritually.

If you can attend, I know that they would love to see you there. If you cannot, then a small donation to help defray some of the costs would be wonderful.  If you cannot donate, then your prayers would be most appreciated.

See the flier/image for more information.

  

Pro-Life in Action by the KofC of Fr. Peter Paul Maher Counci #6793

Congratulations to the Knights of Columbus of Fr. Peter Paul Maher Council (#6793) who assisted the widow of a brother knight move into a new assisted living facility.  Two trucks and two vans worth of materials were moved in one afternoon.

Congratulations on your Pro-Life Work!

(reported in the Columbia Magazine -- March 2014)

A 12 year Old Speaks on the Issue of Abortion...

Maryland pregnancy care center wins decision against ‘NARAL-driven attacks’

This is something which I reported on a while back...

MONTGOMERY, MD, March 10, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Maryland-based pregnancy care center has won its lawsuit against a county law that requires it to post a notice stating it does not have doctors on staff. The law, which exempts abortion clinics from the same requirement, was permanently blocked by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

For the complete story, go to:  http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/maryland-pregnancy-care-center-wins-decision-against-naral-driven-attacks