*Conception to birth – visualized

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. *Subscribe to this blog

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*A Person From Conception – Pope Benedict XVI on the embryo in the womb

With regard to the embryo in the womb, science itself highlights its autonomy capable of interaction with the mother, the coordination of biological processes, the continuity of development, the growing complexity of the organism. This is not an accumulation of biological material, but a new living being, dynamic and wonderfully ordered, a new unique human [...]

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*We’re responsible for our failure to protect unborn life

By Bishop Robert Vasa A murder trial took place in Kansas. It was the kind of murder trial over which editors of newspapers salivate. It is the case of a man accused of shooting and killing a well-known late term abortionist. It is most important, at the outset, for me to strongly condemn the action [...]

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*If the Embryo is Human, It is a Person

by Hilary White ROME, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If an embryo is human, it is a person – this is the golden rule for bioethics if it wants to uphold the full dignity of the human person, said the secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on Tuesday. The [...]

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*Americans are confused about life

By Bishop Robert Vasa I had the good fortune while listening to a Christian television station to hear a congressman from Georgia who was talking about the Sanctity of Human Life Act. This is a bill introduced in November, 2007, that defines human life as beginning at fertilization and would protect all human life even [...]

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*Are Embryo Banks for Spare Parts Next?

by Deacon Keith Fournier  We must oppose this new form of genetic slavery wherein an entire class of human persons is being labeled as property to be used. Catholic Online  A troubling story out of London reflects the continued downward spiral the West is on as turning human persons into commodities to be sold or [...]

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*We Must Speak Up for Human Embryonic Life!

[...this interview is one more invitation to all who are Pro-life, that we must speak up for human embryonic Life if we ever hope to stop the spread of the Culture of Death.]  Apply the Clinton Test Before Using an Embryo for Spare Parts by Deacon Keith Fournier Catholic Online [I think these committees need [...]

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*Save the Embryonic Humans!

by Deacon Keith Fournier With the stroke of a Presidential pen human embryos will become property, capable of being “manufactured” like a commodity and available to be used as spare parts.   Catholic Online    We must speak for human embryonic Life as we speak for all human life. We must expose and oppose this [...]

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*The Dignity of a Person

By Bishop Robert Vasa “The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death.” So begins the Sept. 8, 2008 Instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the dignity of the human person. This instruction is a follow-up and updating of a previous instruction [...]

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*Some forms of so-called ‘contraception’ take a human life

By Bishop Robert Vasa It is impossible for the Church to treat the subject of the dignity of a human person without reiterating its consistent teaching about the sinfulness of artificial contraception. Dignitas Personae, a 2008 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, does not make any direct comment about whether contraceptive [...]

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