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Feast of Holy Innocents - Dec 28th - Mass, Adoration & Procession

At the beautiful Church of the Holy Innocents, 128 W. 37th St., NY, NY 10018

 

Christmas Greetings from Hudson Valley Coalition for life

The Savior is born!

 

Red Rose Rescue at Trenton, NJ Planned Parenthood

No blockage of the abortion chamber. Four arrested, names below in the excerpt. More if you hit the link.

New Jersey’s capital city became the latest battleground in the culture war over abortion this weekend as Trenton Police arrested four pro-life activists who protested inside a local Planned Parenthood clinic.

Planned Parenthood says the protesters conducted a campaign of “intimidation and harassment aimed at patients seeking health care,” but the pro-life activists say they operated with love in an effort to save “unborn children scheduled to be killed by abortionists.”

Welcome to the City of Trenton, a historic municipality that features a Planned Parenthood health center on the 400 block of East State Street. Pro-life diehards entered the facility about 9 a.m. Saturday to conduct a “Red Rose Rescue” — an unapologetic action intended to dissuade pregnant women from seeking abortions.

Once inside, the pro-lifers distributed red roses to patients who were scheduled for abortions, according to Monica Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. A card was attached to each flower imprinted with pro-life literature — “A new life, however tiny, brings the promise of unrepeatable joy” — and phone numbers of local-area pregnancy help centers.

In addition to distributing roses, the pro-lifers talked to Planned Parenthood patients with “words of encouragement,” according to the protesters. Planned Parenthood, which delivers reproductive health care, sex education and information to millions of people worldwide, quickly called 9-1-1 to evict the protesters.

“When police arrived on the scene, pro-lifers attempted to continue conversation with women or sat on the floor praying quietly or singing hymns until they were placed under arrest,” according to a news release issued by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

Multiple protesters inside the building refused to leave despite being asked numerous times to vacate the premises about 9:20 a.m. Saturday. Trenton Police removed and arrested a total of four defendants, charging them each with trespassing, according to Lt. Peter Szpakowski.

Police did not immediately release information on the identities of the defendants, but the pro-life group identified the four Red Rose Rescuers as Fidelis Moscinski, Patricia Woodworth, Will Goodman and Matthew Connolly. The group says it engaged in “civil disobedience.”

 

NY Times op ed asking "would human extinction be a tragedy"

Would it bother anyone if the NY Times went extinct?

The symbol is for the "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement"- evidently there is such a group. 

A rejoinder to the much commented-on NY Times op ed which you can find here. The op ed author, Todd May, is "a professor of philosophy at Clemson University." Sad, very sad.

From the Wall Street Journal columnist James Freeman-

Before condemning any more Donald Trump tweets, take a look at what his critics in ... Manhattan are publishing.

This week the Times runs an op-ed with the headline: “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?” Strolling along the frontiers of radical environmentalism, author Todd May ponders whether we should all kill ourselves but appears to prefer extinction by attrition:

One might ask here whether... it would... be a good thing for those of us who are currently here to end our lives in order to prevent further animal suffering. Although I do not have a final answer to this question, we should recognize that the case of future humans is very different from the case of currently existing humans. To demand of currently existing humans that they should end their lives would introduce significant suffering among those who have much to lose by dying. In contrast, preventing future humans from existing does not introduce such suffering, since those human beings will not exist and therefore not have lives to sacrifice. The two situations, then, are not analogous.

Kudos to Mr. May for discovering that the death of 7.7 billion people might involve some measure of suffering. Such keen insights may ultimately leave readers more amused than shocked, especially when they get to the bottom of the story and learn that he is no less than a “philosophical adviser” to a television program starring Ted Danson. It remains unclear from the Times op-ed whether the author is in charge of all philosophical advice for the NBC comedy “The Good Place” or merely one of a number of people ready to offer such assistance on set.

 

 

Democratic Party National Chairman complains that people are influenced by their religion

These comments are being picked up by lots of groups. Here's one - DNC CHAIR SAYS CHRISTIANS ARE STUPID

Tom Perez. Chairman of the DNC. A graduate of Canisius High School, an all boys Jesuit school in Buffalo.  What a great mind. He's speaking to Demand Justice a left wing advocacy group. Note comment on Roe v. Wade