Book review: A Special Mother Is Born

Gerard Nadal writes: This book addresses one of the burning issues of our day. With prenatal diagnostics leading to the abortions of the less-than-perfect among us, with parents who are frightened into paralysis by these diagnoses and a medical establishment increasingly surrendering to the cowardice of eugenics, over thirty mothers and three fathers of special [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday

1. Sorry about the writing drought here. I’ve been working on books, for one thing, which has been taking just about as much typing as this body knows how to handle, and is pretty well using up most of my mind power as well. Regarding the books, I’m still just working on getting the work [...]

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Blessings in disguise: “Sometimes Miracles Hide” (updated)

Amen, and amen. If you do not let yourself love those who have obvious handicaps, you will never know the depths of true love. Will you be shallow, or deep? Ruthless, or reliable? Selfish, or loving? Added: Sometimes Miracles Hide (The Movement), at the singer/songwriter’s website.

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Countries without abortion…

… are also the safest for mothers. Hats off to Chile, Poland, and Ireland. Well done. (If you haven’t watched the video embedded in the above-linked Thomas Peters’ post, I suggest you take a couple of minutes and watch. Delightful ads.)

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American Anthem for Life

An EWTN video of the Walk for Life West Coast. Cross-posted at Ladies for Life.

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The Coffee Break

The following is a chapter from my book Not Exactly Innocent. It’s a chapter where I detour a bit to have some fun with regional language, and with men sitting around giving each other a hard time – but it’s also one in which I toss some pro-life activism into the mix. I am pro-life, [...]

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Life after conversion

“Suddenly, I Was Surrounded by Life” I think that sums it up pretty well. The article also mentions a new book: Atheist to Catholic: 11 Stories of Conversion.  

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The strange way of Christian love

Tim Muldoon writes about lessons learned when his daughter goes to the memorial mass of a premature baby. Along the way, he describes much of what’s at the core of Christian life. Beautiful.

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Book note: Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein

Hilary White looks at classic literature, moral issues, current events, and contemporary books by bestselling author Dean Koontz. (They do tie together. Really.)

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Playing God, etc.

From Mark P. Shea, answering a question on how he’d deal with a couple that aborted a baby diagnosed with severe deformity (which certainly would have been fatal, if the diagnosis was correct): Part of the difficulty here is that such questions usually involve several parts. What does God think? What would I do? What [...]

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