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Evening - Ember Saturday in September - September 26th, 2009

Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> TWENTY-SIXTH Sunday: "if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out" RORATE CÆLI >> The truth of Europe's roots Seminarians for Life >> Bishop Aquila prays at North Dakota abortion clinic as 40 Days for Life continues Secondhand Smoke >> Obamacare: Buy Health Insurance or Go to Jail? Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Navarro-Valls on Pope Benedict XVI WDTPRS >> Polish Priest Fined for Comparing Abortion to Holocaust WDTPRS >> Report on Fr. Reginald Foster Whispers in the Loggia >> "Christ Is For Everyone!"

Afternoon - St. Giles, Abbot - September 1st, 2009

A Trail of Flowers >> Temper, temper Insight Scoop >> Bishop Samuel J. Aquila: "The means of providing access to health care... " New Liturgical Movement >> Do Mass Booklets at the EF Help or Hinder ? Secondhand Smoke >> Adult Stem Cells May Help Avoid Hip Replacements The Catholic Truth >> Bishop Martino: “I Did What My Mother Told Me To Do…” WDTPRS >> Priesthood recruiting video WDTPRS >> Card. Rivera: Catholics cannot support “death projects” without betraying themselves

Bishop Aquila's Address on Absolutes in Life Issues

Zenit reprints the address of Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo at Loyola College in Baltimore, entitled "The Sanctity of Human Life from Conception to Natural Death" given on November, 15th. The presentation was part of the Loyola Alive Seamless Garment Series . ...As Catholics we believe in the dignity of human life. In the book of Genesis we hear how the Creator has created the human being in his image and likeness, male and female, he created them (Genesis 1:26ff.). God blessed the first couple and gave them a command to be fruitful and multiply. They are given the power to share in God's creation through their sexual intimacy. Life is a gift freely bestowed by the Creator, a good that is to be received. Of all creatures that God has created, only human beings share in his image and likeness and are given the ability to know, receive and return the love of God. The dignity of human life is determined by God and thus is always to be protected. The Catechism of the Cathol