Eat Like a Catholic

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How eating like a Catholic can change your life “The Catholic Table” may just restore some sanity to the way you eat. Full Article

So is eating like a Catholic different than eating like a Protestant, a Muslim, or someone with no faith at all?

Do you eat too much or too little? Do you obsess about calories, worry about food labels, or find yourself wishing you didn’t have to worry about food at all?

I talk in the book about the difference between controlling the body and caring for the body. Some people emphasize controlling the body because it can be the source of sin — it’s what gives into temptation so you need to control it. But the body has to be cared for, it’s a great gift and we need to give the body what it needs to do what God made it to do, honoring it the way God meant it to be honored.

I really wanted to convey the joy of eating. It’s so easy in our culture to strip food of its joy and love and its communal significance. Instead, it can become about calories, nutrients, making your body look a certain way — we project all these different things onto food so it stops being what God made it to be: a sign of love, healing, nourishment, and joy. Food tastes good because God wanted us to enjoy eating. There is so much love from God in every bite of food and when you sit down to a delicious meal, recognizing how much God loves you through that meal is the most important thing you can do.

Many of us struggle to understand and receive food as a natural gift from God. Some of us eat too much food. Or we eat too little. Often, we eat without gratitude, without charity, without respect. But, as award-winning author Emily Stimpson Chapman explains in The Catholic Table, with a sacramental worldview the supernatural gift of God’s grace can transform and heal us through the food we make, eat, and share.

Pro-Choicers Go to Church

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Remember that sometimes we think we are hearing God’s voice, but it may not be Him at all. Full Article

Not only do they go to church, but Abby (Johnson) truly believed she was doing what God wanted her to be doing when she was with Planned Parenthood. Dr. Tiller was killed while attending church. Abby can tell many stories about women who wanted to pray while on the table about to get an abortion.

Sometimes, she would recognize women that would come in to Planned Parenthood, because they attended the large Baptist church where we taught Sunday School. Some of the people she worked with attended church regularly. Remember that sometimes we think we are hearing God’s voice, but it may not be Him at all. There have been people who are anti-abortion who say that “God told them to kill an abortion doctor.” Or maybe that “God told them to blow up an abortion clinic.” But if we know the person of God, we know that He would never instruct us to harm others. I suspect that when Abby thought God was blessing her work and telling her to keep doing what she was doing, it wasn’t God’s voice she was hearing.

Sterilization Device maybe Unsafe!

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has approved a boxed warning for Bayer’s controversial Essure® sterilization device. A boxed warning is the strongest warning the FDA can require for drugs and devices and is intended to alert the user to potentially serious, even deadly, side effects that can result from using them. Full Article

The Essure boxed warning will alert patients and health professionals to adverse events associated with the device including the possibility for uterine perforation, chronic pain, serious allergic reactions, device migration into the abdominal or pelvic cavity, and the need for the device to be removed surgically if symptoms become unbearable.

More than 10,000 women who have suffered adverse medical events associated with Essure have already filed complaints with the FDA, and the number continues to rise daily. Nearly 5,000 women have filed complaints with the FDA this year alone. Bayer itself has received close to 30,000 additional complaints from users of its device.

How does this device work? Learn more about it here. Article

Tell them: It’s time to Defund Planned Parenthood.

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In 2016 the Pro-Life Movement took action, voting to keeping our pro-life majorities in the House and Senate and electing a pro-life president. We did our part. Now it’s their turn to take action and remove all tax dollars from America’s abortion giant, Planned Parenthood.

We need to make it absolutely clear to Congressional leadership that defunding Planned Parenthood immediately is a non-negotiable.

That’s why we just launched the Defund Planned Parenthood petition. Click here to add your name right now: https://www.sba-list.org/defund-planned-parenthood 

But leadership in the House and Senate need to see that the Pro-Life Movement is unified behind the call to cancel the half-a-billion dollar check Planned Parenthood receives from taxpayers every year.

Please, will you add your name today, and then – this is important – forward this email to five friends and urge them to take action.

Defunding Planned Parenthood is within reach. Let’s do this together.

Nobody But Planned Parenthood In A Minute

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Abortion is the #1 cause of death in Black America. This “In A Minute” video series is designed to address the impact of abortion within the Black American community, in light of the fact that since abortion was legalized in 1967, more Black American babies in the womb of their own mothers have been killed by abortion than the total number of Black American deaths from all other causes combined in America. Video Link

This video highlights the data in our “Number Series” of press releases. The press releases can be found in our library (http://issues4life.org/library.html) on the first floor and click on the “Press Releases” link to see it all our press releases in one place.

The numbers don’t lie.

VOICE:
Walter B. Hoye II
Issues4Life Foundation
Website: http://issues4life.org

MUSIC:
The Human BeinGz
Song: “Nobody but Me” (1967)
Website: http://thehumanbeinz.com/discography….

IN A MINUTE ELECTION VIDEOS:

1. “Nobody But Planned Parenthood In A Minute”: https://youtu.be/b26vtHV_W3o
2. “It’s About The Money In A Minute”: https://youtu.be/TNPi1v5mYD4
3. “I Count The Tears In A Minute”: https://youtu.be/2Iv_jPUFo3Q
4. “Simply Un-Acceptable In A Minute”: https://youtu.be/YTA6Ln5tLZA

The Big Death Lobby, Part Two

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Stephanie Block, a veteran journalist, documents the role of Saul Alinsky and his followers in radicalizing American religious institutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3jUHSZLF0c

 

In this video she focuses on one state, North Carolina, emphasizing how these organizers are corrupting the health care system and using religious institutions in an effort to control human behavior and life-and-death decisions.

This segment is part 2 of a larger 4 piece expose which is devoted to the rise of the “death” lobby, a leftist movement which has roots in the abortion industry as well as forced government controlled healthcare. It provides  much background in understanding the concerns within the Catholic Church regarding certain ethical and moral problems with social justice issues. Full Article

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Saul Alinsky Video

Adult Stem Cell Treatment Restored his Eyesight

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Doug Oliver started losing his eyesight when he was 32. He describes his vision then as like “a honeycomb of blind spots.” He could not discern his wife’s face while walking alongside her; he could not read under normal lighting; he could not exercise. Eventually, he almost hit two pedestrians in a crosswalk while driving into town. Full Article

After being declared legally blind, Doug suffered both mentally and emotionally. He even considered ending his life. Doug suffered from maculopathy, which he was told had no known treatment or cure. But the same doctor who told Doug that there was no hope for a cure later told him, “If there is going to be a solution to your problem, it’s not going to be in genetic therapy, it’s going to be in stem cells.”

Stem Cell Research Facts is a project of the Charlotte Lozier Institute since January 2015. CLI plans to continue producing inspiring videos like Doug Oliver’s to raise awareness about the life-saving, research-based, and ethical treatment option of adult stem cell transplants.

We Need a New Culture for Health Care, one with Conscience/Compassion.

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Nationwide, we are seeing aggressive moves to – force doctors and nurses to take part in killing their patients. Full Article

Assisted suicide legislation is advancing in New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Colorado voters will decide in November whether to legalize the practice in their state.

In the few months since California’s new assisted suicide law took effect, we have already seen the first public case of something lawmakers and advocates promised would not happen. A terminally ill woman was denied insurance coverage for the chemotherapy treatment her doctor recommended, although her insurance did offer to cover suicide drugs.

Conscience, compassion and health care

Conscience, compassion and health care

We must continue to oppose assisted suicide as an unjust and dangerous public policy. It gives “end of life options” to those who already have the privilege of good health care. But for the poor, it will make suicide by prescription the “recommended” or only option. In fact, this year’s California budget includes $2.3 million to subsidize giving lethal drugs to the poor through the Medi-Cal system.

Assisted suicide is not only being promoted for the poor, but also for the mentally ill. State officials have already published disturbing new regulations to require doctors who work in state institutions for the mentally ill to help their patients kill themselves if they request it.

Nationwide, we are seeing aggressive moves to erase ancient conscience protections and force doctors and nurses to take part in killing their patients, and also to perform abortions, sterilizations, “sex reassignment” surgeries and other practices they oppose on moral grounds.

In recent months, leading medical journals have come out strongly against continued conscience protections for doctors. Practical Ethics published a statement by prominent bioethicists arguing that doctors should be forced to perform any procedure that is permitted by law.

Rock for Life Promotes Human Rights for all People, Born and Preborn

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Rock for Life – We promote human rights for all people, born and preborn, by engaging the culture through music, education and action. Link

The Rock for Life Street Team is a network of young people who want to be active in the pro-life movement in their communities and online through social media. Link

Rockforlife Met two awesome best friends

Rockforlife Met two awesome best friends

November is National Adoption Awareness Month and we want to spend this month raising awareness about the life-saving act of adoption. We are celebrating by putting all of our “Adoption Saves Lives” merch on sale! We have many different options and colors available – t-shirts, v-necks, tanks, ladies’ cut shirts and tanks, ¾ baseball sleeves and even long sleeve ladies tees as well as bumper stickers and buttons. Everything that reads, “Adoption Saves Lives” is on sale and all orders will be shipped within 24 hours. That will give you time to order your shirt and wear it all month.

Confessions of an Abortion Doctor

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Today, though, there are so few providers who will perform terminations that the people who do agree to provide them end up taking the bulk of procedures. It can be hard. I’m a generalist — I like a lot of different things about being an OB-GYN. But because sometimes I’m the only person around, I end up doing a lot of terminations. Full Article

I have the utmost respect for life; I appreciate that life starts early in the womb, but also believe that I’m ending it for good reasons. Often I’m saving the woman, or I’m improving the lives of the other children in the family. I also believe that women have a life they have to consider. If a woman is working full-time, has one child already, and is barely getting by, having another child that would financially push her to go on public assistance is going to lessen the quality of her life. And it’s also an issue for the child, if it would not have had a good life. Life’s hard enough when you’re wanted and everything’s prepared for. So yes, I end life, but even when it’s hard, it’s for a good reason. Supporting Article