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Useful Links:
Louisiana Right to Life
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Respect Life Radio
Respect Life on the radio…Catch monthly Respect Life updates on Catholic Community Radio’s Wake Up show every first Wednesday at 7:35am. Learn more about Catholic Community Radio here… http://www.catholiccommunityradio.org
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Spiritual Adoption
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIRITUALLY
ADOPTED BABY!Your spiritually adopted baby was born this month — nine months after conception occurred. The only change at birth is that the baby is no longer receiving life support through the umbilical cord. That is, the baby is no different than before birth except that he or she is now breathing air as we do and needs feeding and nurturing. This baby is truly a miracle. He or she began as a 46 chromosome cell and has developed over the past nine months into this unique human baby. Never before in history, nor ever again, will anyone exist who is just like your spiritually adopted baby. Your prayers have helped to save this baby’s life. Thank you, on behalf of all the little babies, that you cared enough to pray for this little one and his or her mother. -
1000 Ultrasound Machines donated!
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Beautiful weather, great music & speakers made for an uplifting day for the Louisiana Life March in Baton Rouge on Saturday, January 26, 2019. Six parishioners from St. Mary Magdalen rode the bus from St. Edward and participated in this year’s march by standing for life in our State’s Capitol on the 46th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.
Prayer for LifeAlmighty God, Our Father, you have given us life and intend for us to live forever. Grant us your blessings as we stand together and pray for LIFE. Ground us in the belief that human life is sacred, because all people were made in your image and likeness. And give us the courage to stand up and defend all life from creation until natural death. Help us to teach by word and example that all men, women and children, in every land, on every continent are precious because we are a gift from God, who is all Love. Grace us with the strength and the wisdom we need to eliminate poverty, discrimination and ignorance that diminish the value of life in our country. May the tender mercy of God shine on those who sit in darkness and death’s shadow and guide our feet into the path of peace. Amen.
Humanae Vitae
Pope Paul IV wrote and dated the encyclical Humane Vitae July 25, 1968 and it was issued at a Vatican press conference on July 29, 1968 making it 50 years old. Section 17 of the encyclical contained 4 predictions made by Pope Paul IV, there would be:
1) An increase in marital infidelity.
2) A general lowering of moral standards.
3) A loss of respect for women (man would “reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires”).
4) Governments would coerce people into using contraception and intervene in citizens’ sexual relationships.
The Pope's predictions were controversial in 1968. Many of the predictions have come true, but the debate has shifted to whether contraception had any influence on those societal changes.
Do you think there is any connection?
Supreme Court News
Supreme Court Ruling, June 26, 2018--NIFLA v. Becerra, a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Clarence Thomas. The suit, brought by the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, challenged a California law requiring licensed pregnancy resource centers to disclose where women could receive free or low-cost abortions, and requiring unlicensed centers to insert state-dictated material in their advertising, thus violating the First Amendment rights of all pregnancy resource centers in the state.
This was a freedom of speech issue, focusing on the required speech in which the pro-life facility was required to give notification of abortion as an alternative. With the 5-4 ruling it is somewhat concerning how precariously close to loss of freedom of speech our country has come.
For more analysis- National Right to Life News