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*VICTIMS OF THE ABORTION INDUSTRY AND YOU

By Fredi D’Alessio
2/1/2010

San Francisco, CA (Catholic Online)

Do you ever pass by a building wherein abortions are committed? If so, what comes to mind on such occasions? Do you ever see clients of these places of death and destruction making their way to the building’s entrance? If so, what comes to mind then?

Does the scripture narrative of the ‘Good Samaritan’ or the ‘Visitation’ or the ‘Samaritan Woman at the Well’ or the ‘Annunciation’ come to mind on those occasions? If not, hopefully they will one day.

In December 2008, I wrote the following story for my website, Children Deserve Birth:

“We decided to keep our baby” are the sweet words I heard today while prayerfully awaiting the next opportunity to reach out to a woman or couple outside an abortion center in San Francisco. While standing next to the entrance of the abortion center, I noticed a young man in the passenger side of a car attempting to get my attention. A woman was at the wheel and there were several cars ahead of and behind them waiting for the traffic light to turn green.

Assuming the young man was seeking directions, I walked toward the curb to assist him. Then I heard him say those six glorious words and what God, the author of all life, wanted me to know. Only He knows how often parents who were planning to abort their child had a change of heart and mind. We are blessed whenever He enables us to be instrumental.

Seven months had passed since I had reached out to this couple at this same abortion center. In less than two more months they will be cuddling their precious son because they made the right decision.

This Christmas they will have a son wrapped in his mother’s womb to present to the Christ Child and what could have otherwise been a time of terrible mourning for them will instead be their most joyous Christmas ever.

The purpose of this article is to encourage you to think seriously about how you can strive to spare lives and souls by becoming engaged in outreach to victims of abortion centers.

Unfortunately, there are many of them throughout our nation where God’s precious infants are put to death in horrific numbers and in horrific ways. These killing centers present us with daily opportunities to represent Christ with the intent to save lives and souls.

Your first thought might be, “I’ve seen those anti-abortion extremists harassing women in front of abortion centers and I will take no part in it.” If you have witnessed people behaving in any way other than Christ-like outside abortion centers, I share your disdain. However, if you believe that any kind of outreach conducted outside abortion centers is harassment, you are very much mistaken.

If your first thought is that you don’t have time, I ask you to consider the Visitation. When Mary set out to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was in her sixth month with child, she had just learned that she herself would soon give birth to the Son of God. Out of charity, without concern for the difficulties she might face, Mary put her self-interests aside and hastened to the aid of her cousin who was elderly and fragile. Mary remained at Elizabeth’s side for three months. How often do we put our personal interests aside and reprioritize our obligations and responsibilities so that we can go to the aid of others?

Who are those others? They are our brethren, no matter how much their outward appearance may differ from our own.

Just as the Good Samaritan assisted a beaten and abandoned stranger lying beside the road, Blessed Mother Teresa (a foreigner in Calcutta) did not pass by her abandoned brethren lying in the streets while asking God to have mercy on them. She took action and became instrumental in directly bringing God’s mercy to them.

Perhaps you believe that you should not interfere, that it is their choice. I am not writing this article to convert pro-abortion people (among them are those who say they are pro-choice). I am presuming that you are pro-life (and if you are a Christian, there is no other option). I am also assuming that you have had no personal involvement with doing outreach outside abortion centers.

So how can you be sure that an outreach is Christ-like? The answer is found both in the intentions as well as methods of those who are reaching out to others.

The scope of this article is focused on only one form of  outreach – sidewalk counseling. Therefore my comments apply to one-on-one encounters with sidewalk counselors and the persons to whom they reach out. They may not be relevant to other forms of outreach or pro-life activism, such as picketing, demonstrating, displaying signs or images, prayer vigils, preaching, evangelizing.

The term “sidewalk counseling” was devised to counter the media characterization of a group of pro-life advocates in California as demonstrators. This group had set aside their signs and all other external evidence of demonstrating and re-focused their efforts to become the most effective means of reaching and speaking with people in order to offer alternatives to abortion.

If you are well-informed about the abortion industry, you know why sidewalk counselors are needed. The very first mom who changed her mind after I had reached out to her had been told by Planned Parenthood that her child was just a “blob of tissue.”

Sidewalk counseling involves reaching out to mothers and fathers who are contemplating or planning abortion and offering them information that they have a need and right to know. These parents are provided with information on where to go for free pregnancy tests, counseling and practical assistance. They are also given materials on fetal development, adoption, abortion procedures, risks and side effects, as well as post-abortion counseling and healing resources.

This ministry is conducted on public sidewalks outside abortion centers on days when abortions are being committed and/or days when pre-abortion evaluations or pregnancy tests are provided.

It is conducted by way of conversation and literature. It is done with love and out of concern for unborn children who are in danger of being deprived of their God-given right to be born into the world and for their parents, especially mothers, who are in danger of being severely harmed in numerous ways.

This form of outreach is concerned with saving a child from certain death and his or her parents from certain harm, one family at a time.

For the past seven years I have been engaged in this ministry on the sidewalks, reaching out to thousands of abortion minded parents. It is my hope that one day there will be someone engaged in this ministry at every abortion center in the world, where the freedom to do so exists, during every hour of every day when these places of death and destruction are open. Toward that goal, I try to promote sidewalk counseling worldwide through my websites and as well as my personal witness.

On my website “CHILDREN DESERVE BIRTH” I intentionally chose to use the term “Children” rather than “Babies” since, for many, that word may more effectively connote the “personhood” of the young life in the womb as well as the vitality of that person. I also chose “Birth” rather than “Life” because the unborn child is already alive and awaiting her/his birthday. So these three little words make three profound statements:

1) The occupant of a pregnant woman’s womb is not a “product of conception” or “blob of tissue” or “wad of cells” – she/he is a “person”

2) That person has “the right to life”

3) That “life” already exists and no one has a right to exterminate it.

This mindset also means being concerned about life issues from conception to natural death. I also have a website titled “Serious Health Care and End of Life Decisions.” But one can’t have a natural death or end of life decisions to make if one is deprived the right to be born.

Sidewalk counseling, as I said earlier, is conducted on days when abortions are being committed and/or days when pre-abortion evaluations or pregnancy tests are provided. Some groups only minister during the hours when abortions are being committed, but it’s very important to encounter those who are getting pregnancy tests or abortion consultations as well.

Even if they make an appointment for an abortion, they will have the time to read the literature given to them, give more serious thought about their decision and perhaps seek counseling from one of the referrals included in the literature. No one should be neglected and wouldn’t be if all hours of the abortion centers’ operation are covered.

Those of us who also do outreach on the non-abortion days don’t always get to witness, and be consoled by, the reversals that would otherwise be obvious, which bring us joy and help us to persevere in our ministry. But those six glorious words that I shared with you at the beginning of this article prove that they do indeed occur. Only God knows how often. All we need do is persevere.

For sure, not everyone can make time for this ministry, but I personally don’t believe anyone is above engaging in it. We are all servants and not one of us is greater than our Master, Christ Jesus.

Every time we reach out with love to parents contemplating or planning abortion, we perform an act of mercy. We act as instruments of God’s love, mercy and peace. Even if we are rejected, we can be consoled in the fact that we did what we came to do, serve God and our neighbor.

There isn’t enough space in this article to give you all the reasons why sidewalk counselors are needed or tell you what it’s like to be on the sidewalk doing outreach or share heartwarming stories about parents who changed their minds and chose birth for their children.

I cannot fully guide you on what techniques should and should not be used when doing outreach. If you do some research on the internet, including my website, you will come across all of the resources you need. Regarding techniques, you will have to make some crucial decisions and guidance concerning those areas is also available.

The following will guide you in striving to maintain a Christ-like demeanor while engaged in this ministry:

  • Follow the way of Christ Jesus, using the overwhelming power of love and prayer, not anger, confrontation, scorn or abuse.
  • Go to the site with love for everyone you encounter and with hope to save lives and souls.
  • Be centered on prayer for the conversion of mothers, fathers, abortionists and their staff and everyone who supports or enables abortion in any way.
  • Resist temptations to talk unnecessarily with one another, respond to ridicule from passersby or the abortion center’s staff or engage in debate with anyone.
  • Adhere to the local laws, avoid standing on any portion of the abortion center’s property or blocking its entrance or the path of anyone, including passersby, on the sidewalk, and stay clear of driveways.

People of faith can be most effective if their manner is that of a prayerful contemplative while awaiting the next outreach opportunity. The mothers and fathers to whom you wish to reach out should be able to feel confident that you are sincerely there for them and their child, not to make a public statement about your position on abortion. This is a very important point.

I hope at this point you are at least interested in finding out more about sidewalk counseling. Do your homework before making a decision to become involved or determining how you will go about it. I invite you to visit my website, CHILDREN DESERVE BIRTH, and email me with any questions – you’ll find my email address on the site. I would also like to refer you to two other important ministries, The Gabriel Project and Creatd4Life.

Find out where the abortion centers are located in your area. If you encounter already existing ministries at these locations, you can expand the hours of coverage at them. It’s not likely that there would be a need to have more than two counselors at the same location at the same time and it’s more important to cover more hours (thus reaching out to more parents in need) than to have more counselors present than needed.

My prayer is that you will focus on pure prayerful sidewalk counseling. But whatever you decide, I hope you will not be one of the indifferent passersby.

(Catholic Online)

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    • *If You Want Peace, Remember God
    • *Imagine Revised as a Reflection on the Faith and Social Doctrine of the Church
    • *In Times Like These – A Scriptural Guide for Troubled and Confused Times
    • *Interpretations of Papal Statements Have Consequences
    • *Invitation to Christians
    • *Is attending Mass an ordeal for you? Perhaps it should be.
    • *Is the Catholic Church Reinventing Catholicism?
    • *Is your attendance at Mass a sacrifice of praise?
    • *It is necessary to revive staunch adherence to the Catholic faith.
    • *It’s time to get serious; many are being lost!
    • *Joe Biden and the Obama Administration willing to turn a blind eye to China's Atrocities
    • *June 26, 2015 – U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Same Sex “Marriage”
    • *Kermit Gosnell will never kill another baby
    • *Leading Catholic exorcist on those indifferent to Medjugorje: “They are fools!”
    • *Leave Your Past Behind and Grow in Your Love of The Lord
    • *Let the Holy Spirit light a fire in you
    • *Let’s Be Reasonable About Vaccines
    • *Let’s Be Sincere
    • *Letter to my children (daughters, sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren)
    • *LIFE IS FUN
    • *Lives are saved, but some vaccines aren’t morally neutral
    • *Living in the midst of a time of rebellion and deep delusion
    • *Love is greater than kindness
    • *Mamas Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up To Be Girl Scouts
    • *Mandela’s Support of Abortion “Shameful”
    • *Marches and Walks for Life
    • *Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood’s Racist Founder
    • *Martha and Mary in the Gospel – Msgr. Pope's interpretation of what is being taught here
    • *Martin Luther King’s Niece: Obama Election Heals “White Guilt” at the Cost of Life and Family
    • *May We Donate Our Organs?
    • *Medjugorje
    • *Medjugorje – an impulse statement
    • *Message to the pro-life community
    • *Miscarriage of justice – call for Kathleen Sebelius’ resignation
    • *Misguided Priorities
    • *Moral Liberalism, having largely destroyed Christianity in America, will sooner or later destroy America itself.
    • *Moral teachings of the Church are in accord with human dignity
    • *More dangerous than Roe v. Wade
    • *Must Read Speech by Cardinal Robert Sarah
    • *My Best Birthday Present Ever
    • *My Hope for a Future Pope: Cardinal Raymond Burke
    • *My Mom’s Letter to Pope John Paul II
    • *My Most Important (Personal) Posts
    • *My Prolife Heroes
    • *My response to “McCain Is Pro-death not Pro-Life”
    • *My Way vs. God’s Way
    • *No ‘Abortion Rights’ only Human Right
    • *No Cross, No Crown
    • *Notre Dame President Sits on Board of Directors of Pro-Abortion, Pro-Contraception Organization
    • *Obama 2012 Launched: Should Catholics Support Him?
    • *Obama Administration’s definition of “reproductive health” includes abortion
    • *Obama and the Media on Stem Cells – the Untold Truth
    • *Obama Pressures UN to Drop Family Language (What a Representative of the Best America Has to Offer the World!)
    • *Obama v. Life
    • *Obama: "Every Time I Think About Those Kids It Gets Me Mad"
    • *On Evangelization
    • *On The Wonder of the Word of God
    • *One of the reasons that our Churches have emptied over the past 40-50 years.
    • *Only what you do for Christ will last
    • *Organ Donation – What you need to know
    • *Our faith must become flesh in us
    • *Our greatest duty is to prepare ourselves and our children (and others) for eternity.
    • *Our Lady of Fatima – Her Prophecies and Warnings Remain as Essential as Ever!
    • *Our Message to Worried Pregnant Mothers
    • *Our Mission is Culture Conversion not Culture War
    • *Our need – for and to be – true prophets
    • *Paean to Personhood
    • *Parish ‘angels’ embrace struggling pregnant mom
    • *Path to Serenity
    • *Pay Attention!
    • *PEACEFUL MAJORITY IRRELEVANT
    • *Perhaps my dream will come true
    • *Piercing the Darkness
    • *Plan B – Is it contraception or not?
    • *Plan B for 17 year old girls: Equipping Children to Kill Children?
    • *Planned Parenthood Uses Manual Vacuum Aspirators to Harvest Organs
    • *Planned Parenthood: False Prophet with Plans for U.S. Health Care
    • *Plea to Filipinos: Defeat the Tyrannous RH Bill
    • *Please read Bobby Schindler’s story about Terri Schiavo.
    • *Pondering the Most Holy Trinity
    • *Pope Benedict XVI’s call for the use of Latin
    • *Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Embrace
    • *Pope Francis: “we have done little to adequately accompany [pregnant] women in very difficult situations”
    • *Population control ideology stands in stark contrast to the reality of a withering Russia
    • *Post-Election Reflections: The Change We Need the Most
    • *Postfertilization Effect of Hormonal Emergency Contraception
    • *Pray (more)
    • *Preaching without risking suffering causes others to suffer the loss of truth and faith.
    • *President Trump addresses participants in the 2018 March for Life
    • *Pro-life Movement: Be Prepared to be Smeared Thanks to Donald The Disaster
    • *Protect your daughters from the Girl Scouts
    • *Proverbs for Pro-Lifers and Those Who Should Be
    • *R.I.P. Justice Antonin Scalia – We'll Miss You
    • *Rally for Life – What you can do to minimize abortions
    • *Rape, Todd Akin and appeasing abortionists
    • *Re: Let’s All Use Adjective “Preborn” Not “Unborn”
    • *Reaching Out for Life
    • *Readers Beware
    • *Real Love Involves Real Hatred
    • *Reaping the Whirlwind of Abortion
    • *Receive ‘Charity in Truth’ with Charity and Hunger for the Truth
    • *Rediscovering Saint John Paul II
    • *Regarding Bishop Robert McElroy’s appointment as Bishop of San Diego
    • *Religion, reason, voting
    • *Remembering Pope John Paul II
    • *Reproductive Health Language is Properly an Obstacle for the Holy See
    • *Rescind Jahi McMath’s Death Certificate!
    • *Respect for Life – Is its Link to Peace Still Understood?
    • *Respect for Unborn Human Life: The Church’s Constant Teaching
    • *Responding to His Call to Love
    • *Retain or Reclaim the Greatest Gift God Has Given You
    • *Salvation depends on our choice to come to obedient faith
    • *Satan, while hidden, remains active in us and in society
    • *Satan’s Loved Ones
    • *Save the Embryonic Humans!
    • *Seeking a health plan that does not expand abortion
    • *Selective Reduction Abortions Increasing: Children Have Become Commodities
    • *Senator Joseph Biden’s sophistry
    • *Serious errors in today's Catholic Church listed by Bishop Athanasius Schneider
    • *Serious Health Care and End of Life Decisions
    • *Sermon on the Mass in the Traditional Form of the Roman Rite given by His Excellency Alexander Sample.https://fjdalessio.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/sermon-on-the-mass-in-the-traditional-form-of-the-roman-rite-given-by-his-excellency-alexander-sample/
    • *Shallow sermons miss what is the heart of the matter
    • *Singing During Liturgy
    • *Some forms of so-called ‘contraception’ take a human life
    • *Spice Up Your Christian Life
    • *State of the Catholic Church (2016)
    • *State of the Family – 2018
    • *Study Proves Abortion is not the Answer for Pregnant Women with Zika
    • *Stupida, Gloria Steinem: Pope is causing global warming
    • *Stupido; Ben Carson on Terri Schiavo: “I think it was much ado about nothing.”
    • *Submit yourselves to God
    • *Subsidiarity, solidarity, and the lay mission
    • *Tainted Wealth
    • *Taking Abortion Seriously
    • *Taking Catholicism Seriously
    • *Taking Discipleship Seriously
    • *Taking Our Death Seriously
    • *Tears from South Africa
    • *Telegram to Pope Francis re: Medjugorje
    • *That cold, stainless steel bowl
    • *The 5th and 6th Marks of the Church
    • *The Abyss of Oblivion
    • *The America of Catholic memory is not the America of the present moment or the emerging future.
    • *The Body God Gave Us Doesn’t Lie – A Meditation on the Sexual Confusion of Our Day
    • *The Church is Ready to Capsize!
    • *The Church must be the faithful echo of the Lord Who is speaking
    • *The Church of Christ
    • *The Church of Christ Jesus
    • *The Church of Christ Jesus or of the People?
    • *The Church when I was 12 years old
    • *The cost of affluence and abundance (part two of *Will you ever be able to truly say “I want for nothing more”?)
    • *The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism
    • *The Critical Danger of Unbelief
    • *The Dignity of a Person
    • *THE DIGNITY OF THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION
    • *The dilution of the sacredness of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Blessed Sacrament
    • *The experience of greed
    • *The Failure of Parish-Based Catechesis and a Proposed Solution
    • *The Faithful Should Not Fear Death
    • *The Feast of Corpus Christi: how well did your parish fare in worship?
    • *The Fruits of Sidewalk Counseling
    • *The Fundamental Reproductive Right
    • *THE GABRIEL PROJECT
    • *THE GABRIEL PROJECT II
    • *The Holy Spirit and Grace
    • *The Impact of Headlines
    • *The Importance of the Traditional Roman Liturgy
    • *The Inevitable Triumph of the Pro-Life Position
    • *The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) reports that its affiliates [exterminated] nearly one million unborn children in 2015.
    • *The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
    • *The Lethal Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
    • *The Little Sisters of Limousine Liberalism
    • *The Millennium Development Goals and Abortion
    • *The Millennium Development Goals and the Critical Next Step for the Catholic Church
    • *The Millennium Development Goals: In Light of Catholic Social Teaching
    • *The New Sustainable Development Agenda
    • *The New Threat to World Order
    • *The Nonconformist and Mistreated Pope
    • *The Obama HHS ‘Compromise’ Switches the Tiger for the Lion
    • *The Passing of a Real Hero – Robert Schindler
    • *The Peace that Comes with Faith and Trust in God
    • *The Perfect Christian Funeral Homily
    • *The Philippines Under Fire
    • *The Pope Cannot Totally Ruin The Catholic Church
    • *The Pope of Divine Mercy should be declared “Doctor of the Church”.
    • *The President’s Speech; Why I Wasn’t Impressed
    • *The pro-abortion agenda of the Millennium Development Goals
    • *The Prosperity Gospel’s Unholy Trinity: Me, Myself and I
    • *The protection of life from conception must rank first among all dedications of philanthropy
    • *The Roots of the Culture of Death…
    • *The SBA So-called Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge
    • *The serious crisis that the Church is going through.
    • *The Sound of the Magnitude of Abortion in America
    • *The Straight Facts about Tiller and Anti-Abortion Violence
    • *The Sustainable Development Goals and the Critical Errors of the Catholic Church
    • *The theology of the Cross versus Hedonism
    • *The Times Are Out of Joint
    • *The Tragedy of Aborting Healthy Babies
    • *The Truth About “Brain Death”
    • *The Ultimate Heresy
    • *The War in the Womb
    • *Theology of the Body
    • *There are just and unjust choices
    • *This message must be heard by every American
    • *Those who profess to love God, but back abortion, are liars
    • *Though only a small remnant remains faithful, God will rebuild, working with them – don't miss out.
    • *To All American Bishops Who Did Not Make Every Effort To Save These Lives
    • *To be fully pro-life requires a mind like Christ’s
    • *To My Dear Mother – Always On My Mind
    • *To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men
    • *To vote or not to vote
    • *Too Important for You to Ignore
    • *Traditional Roman Rite Mass
    • *Twelve Reasons Not to Prefer the Novus Ordo
    • *Tying Abortion to Millennium Development Goal #5
    • *Tying Abortion to Millennium Development Goal #5 UPDATES
    • *U.N. Abortion Will Harm, Not Help, Millennium Goals
    • *ULTIMATELY A LIFE IS A LIFE
    • *UN Declares Right to Abortion
    • *UN Petition for the Unborn Child – Your Name is Needed
    • *UN Secretary-General calls for universal access to reproductive health (UN code for abortion)
    • *Understanding the Deadly Sin of Anger
    • *Understanding the Deadly Sin of Envy
    • *Understanding the Deadly Sin of Greed
    • *Understanding the Deadly Sin of Lust
    • *Understanding the Deadly Sin of Pride
    • *Understanding the Deadly Sin of Sloth
    • *Understanding The Gabriel Project
    • *UNICEF Exposed (Again)
    • *United Nations Continues to Push a Radical Abortion Agenda
    • *Unnecessary Fear Vs. Neglected Fear
    • *Until Abortion is Abolished …
    • *Update to 'What is an American to do in the Presidential Election of Nov. 2016?'
    • *Update to ‘A Sign in the Sky?’: Pius XII Saw “Miracle of the Sun”
    • *USCCB corrects Biden on Church teachings on abortion
    • *Vaccinations: Are you justified to participate or refuse?
    • *Victims of the Abortion Industry and You
    • *View from the Top
    • *Volition
    • *Vote as a Catholic with a Catholic Moral Vision
    • *Warriors for the Victory of Life
    • *We are all impoverished by our failure to correct the sinner.
    • *We Are Catholic
    • *We are currently burying the last generation to be taught that Sunday Mass was an obligation to be met under pain of mortal sin.
    • *We can choose to be good or good for nothing!
    • *We decided to keep our baby
    • *We must be at least intensely spiritually minded as we are with worldly matters.
    • *We Must Not Retreat from Preaching The Gospel of Life
    • *We must proclaim the whole counsel of God
    • *We Must Speak Up for Human Embryonic Life!
    • *We’re responsible for our failure to protect unborn life
    • *Welcome to California Bishop Robert Vasa; We Need You!
    • *What a difference a pope makes!
    • *What a Pope, traditionally-speaking, does.
    • *What Abortion Really Is
    • *What Americans are bringing to Africa is “an abomination”: Obamabortion
    • *What And Whom Do You Fear?
    • *What are faithful Catholics to do under the current circumstances?
    • *What does it mean to be a Catholic?
    • *What does New Year’s Day mean to you?
    • *What does the Lord mean in using sheep as a sign for us?
    • *What Effect Will Pressure to Accept Same Sex Acts or “Marriage” Have on Church Teaching? None!
    • *What every priest needs to say to his congregation!
    • *What Happened to Our Pro-life Leaders?
    • *What Happened to Our Pro-life Leaders? – Part II
    • *What has caused the decline of our dioceses over the last 50 years?
    • *What is an American to do in the Presidential Election of Nov. 2016?
    • *What is happening now and will worsen over time
    • *What Is the Deepest Root of Sin? It’s Not in Your Wallet and It’s Much Closer Than You Might Think
    • *What Is the Gabriel Project?
    • *What kind of Catholic are you?
    • *What many Catholics my age have forgotten and younger never learned
    • *What the Catholic Church really teaches about population control
    • *What We Really Need is a Moral Bail Out
    • *What you’re not likely to hear about Medjugorje from the usual news souces
    • *When Helpers Turn into Destroyers
    • *When we live our life in God, we receive the Beatitudes.
    • *When You Are Absent From Mass You Are Blocking Your Blessing
    • *Where Do You Draw The Line?
    • *Who is the Jesus you worship?
    • *Why Blog?
    • *Why can’t we be more like the mega-churches with contemporary music and a rock-star-like pastor delivering sensitive, toned-down preaching with many promises and few demands?
    • *Why Catholic Churches Are Closing
    • *Why Obama should not receive awards, honors or platforms from universities with Catholic identities
    • *Why the Church Is In Decline
    • *Will Pope Francis’ visit to America bear holy fruit?
    • *Will the Church forget?
    • *Will you ever be able to truly say "I want for nothing more"?
    • *Withdraw your children from unorthodox Catholic parishes and schools
    • *Words I don’t expect to hear on Judgment Day
    • *YOU CAN BE AN ANGEL
    • *You might not have a church to go to if you don’t vote the right way.
    • *You Need a Savior!
    • *You say you’re pro-life and you’re going to vote for Obama or Clinton?
    • *Zeal is More Necessary Today than Ever – True Zeal, That Is, Not a Mere Human Imitation of It
    • *Zombie charities push population control
  • Recommended Links

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    • *Being Catholic
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    • *Coming Home – Dr. Gerard M. Nadal
    • *Making All Things New
    • *Serious Health Care and End of Life Decisions
    • *Sidewalk Counseling
    • *The Gabriel Project
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