tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74979722034090745472024-03-19T08:46:50.641+00:00Discover Happinesswith Life and LoveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-7607900415594959782018-01-02T14:13:00.001+00:002018-01-02T14:13:24.196+00:00Why I object to Cathy Warwick being on the New Years Honours List<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Cathy Warwick was the CEO of the midwifery trade union (Royal College of Midwives) and instigated a policy for the union to officially be in favour of abortion on demand for any reason up to birth. She has recently been made a Dame of the order of the British Empire in the New Year’s Honours List. This is a complete disgrace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As Peter D. Williams mentions on twitter, it describes how corrupt and out-of-touch the political elite of this country are. It is a sickening abuse of the Honours system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do read my article on the Royal Family and the Pro-life movement <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/the-royal-family-and-the-pro-life-movement/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here. </span></a> Gill Greer in 2012 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) as a former director general of International Planned Parenthood Federation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Andrew Percy, a Conservative member of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, called Cathy Warwick’s former role as the chief executive of the RCM and the chairwoman of the BPAS board of trustees as a “conflict of interest.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Cathy Warwick faced mounting pressure to resign after it emerged she failed to consult members or mention her decision to the board of the RCM to back a campaigns which wants to allow abortion right up until birth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The decriminalisation of abortion would allow for a range of abuses - misogynistic, eugenic and cruel to take place. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">John Henry Westen - Lifesitenews (Canada)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The March for Life is incredibly important and I would say particularly so today </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Fr Linus Clovis - Family Life International (NZ)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For the simple reason we are witnessing - the world needs witnesses, not teachers - witnesses</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When you march for life, you give a witness to the people, but you also give a witness to a small minority who are utterly indolent and careless of the people </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What we are doing in giving witness with the March for Life is to give the truth. Eloquent witness to the beauty of life </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Protect and preserve life from true conception until true death. There should be no exceptions. It is very important to the life of each person and to the family</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You have to love things the way they are supposed to be loved to the extent they deserve to be loved </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Which is about the love for women and a love for men and a love for children, a love for grandparents, the love for grandchildren</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">John Henry Westen - Lifesitenews (Canada)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Today, many of the youth of the world, in all the countries of the earth think that if they are pro-life, they are the only ones in the whole wide world who are pro-life - “none of my friends are pro-life” and nobody else is, yet when they come to the march for life, all of a sudden they are inundated with all of these young people who are also pro-life, so they feel very supported </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is extremely striking how many people come together for it and so the March for Life is a very good reminder of how many people actually care; we feel like we are the only ones who are trying sometimes. But when you go to the March for Life you see how many people are trying just like you are and that you guys all have the same goal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">People who come on the March for Life are strengthened, and they see the young people coming, that strengthens the older people coming, and the younger people are strengthened by seeing the wisdom of their parents and grandparents generation standing there together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The first time I went, I just could not believe that there were 100,000 people there - you know - I am not alone - I am with the majority - in fact, those who stand for life are with the majority, because the whole of nature is about life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">These beliefs are still alive, in the hearts of young people, in the hearts of many people</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Everyone one of us, just everyone can express how important life in the family is, so I encourage you all to come out and join with all of us as we March for Life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So for very many reasons the March for Life is a massively important thing for the pro-life movement</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So I invite everyone, especially young people, who are the beginning of life to come out, defend life, so the March for Life next year, please come, be there! I will be there! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">On 12 December 2017, the Home Affairs Committee decided to have a Select Committee to hear from Ealing Council, abortion clinics and protest groups on the nature and scale of protests outside of abortion clinics. You can read about this topic <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/abortion-policy-and-the-disdain-of-politics/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/why-the-existence-of-abortion-providers-is-bad-for-womens-health/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/what-dispatches-failed-to-report/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/the-reality-of-prayer-vigils/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/the-real-story-of-harassment-outside-british-abortuaries/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here </span></a>and <a href="http://www.robertcolquhoun.com/the-reality-of-prayer-vigils/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here. </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It did not occur to the Home Office originally, if there were going to conduct an in depth investigation into the topic to talk about the groups who actually organise the “protests” themselves. But in the end, a representative from Good Counsel Network and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children were invited to the meeting to be harangued by the chair of the meeting and continually interrupted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The meeting was chaired by Yvette Cooper MP, a member of Parliament who encouraged her own party to vote <a href="https://labourlist.org/2015/02/cooper-and-kendall-advise-labour-mps-to-vote-against-sex-selective-abortion-bill/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">in favour of sex selection abortion in 2015.</span></a> During the vote she stood by the no lobby saying to MPs <a href="https://twitter.com/StopGendercideX/status/570015264152141824"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">“We’re voting no on this one.”</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Committee failed to notice the conflict of interest of the abortion providers, who have vested financial interest in the provision of ‘buffer zones’ to protect their provision of abortion. Providers will receive a three or four figure sum if a woman has an abortion, and nothing if a woman does not receive an abortion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For 3 years, the biggest abortion charity in the country has been campaigning for the introduction of buffer zones to protect their business from prayer vigils outside abortion centres. Government give BPAS £30 million a year for their work. BPAS then politically campaign to serve their own financial and ideological interests back to government - such as decriminalisation and buffer zones. BPAS are reported to now have a whole team working in public policy (7 people?) to further their interest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Marie Stopes Ealing was mentioned multiple times in the Home Affairs Committee. Aisha Chitira died in an ambulance after having an abortion in Ealing. Another doctor from Ealing was struck off the medical register for performing a botched abortion in the centre. There have been a total of 21 ambulances that have arrived at Marie Stopes Ealing from 2014-2016. A recent freedom of information request revealed that there were 124 ambulances called to the 6 major abortion centres in London in the last 3 years, at just over 40 a year is almost one a week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But none of this evidence was even considered as harassment during the meeting. Nor was the CQC who discovered a catalogue of failings in Marie Stopes clinics around the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The definition of harassment did not include women who routinely are forced into abortions, sometimes by overbearing boyfriends or relatives. Such a testimony was recently heard in the British Parliament from Edward Leigh MP by a woman who leapt out the ground floor window of the abortion centre and cleared three fences to escape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It was after meeting pro-life women at a vigil outside the clinic, who offered her the support she felt she needed to keep her baby, that she felt she had the confidence to leave and she was then supported by the group the women worked with to continue the pregnancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">She ended her testimony to Parliament by saying, “I had my baby who is now three and a half years old. She’s an amazing, perfect little girl and the love of my life. I want MPs here today calling to introduce buffer zones to realise, that she would not be alive today, if they had their way.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">At present, forced abortions are contrary to British law. However forced abortions are something that those who organise prayer vigils witness on a regular basis in the United Kingdom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">NHS guidelines (<a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment</span></a>) stipulate that a person must be given all of the information in terms of the treatment involved, including the benefits and risks, whether there are reasonable alternative treatments, and what will happen if treatment doesn't go ahead. I can't understand, that why abortion as one of the most common procedure provided on the NHS, rarely comes with informed consent - because women are not fully informed of all the risks. I have experienced personally first hand many situations where informed consent has been denied for women seeking abortions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The NHS Choices websites describes informed consent as “Informed: the person must be given full information about what the treatment involves, including the benefits and risks, whether there are reasonable alternative treatments, and what will happen if treatment does not go ahead. Healthcare professionals should not withhold information just because it may upset or unnerve the person.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Some people argue that many women are not fully informed of the mental, physical and psychological consequences of abortion because Government funded organisations such as Marie Stopes and BPAS have vested financial and ideological interests in providing abortions devoid of providing impartial informed consent of exactly what might happen after an abortion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would your in depth assessment of harassment include funeral house staff who are shocked and disgusted by reports of BPAS Twickenham defrosting aborted babies in the microwave? I have heard reports that BPAS give the option of funeral services for late term abortions. Funeral parlour staff reported they had to wait in the abortuary because the nurses said that they have to defrost the body of the baby in the microwave and the nurses said not to mention it to anyone. Could this be considered harassment or criminal behaviour towards the remains of a dead child? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would the in depth assessment of harassment include former abortion staff who felt harassed by their employer? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">One Marie Stopes employee called Dr Sharma refused to comply with anti-patient protocols and threatened to expose their behaviour. He received racist comments at work along with bullying, before being given false charges of sexual assault leading to a high profile crown court trial in March 2009 with the attendant media frenzy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The shocking racism and bullying through the hands of Sue Smooker and Julie Ackroyd along with the senior managers at the London office left the employee with long term psychiatric damage. Employees of Marie Stopes are alleged to have falsely accused one of their staff of sexual harassment. Marie Stopes employees supposedly were happy to lie in court about events while a former employee was bullied and racially abused at work. The perpetrators of racism and bullying got promoted in the organisation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The worker described working in Marie Stopes in Fallowfield in the following way. The abortion industry is a money driven business. Once you have a license it is just money all the way. You don’t pay taxes because you are a charity, you employ vulnerable doctors and nurses at cheap rates and exploit vulnerable girls from Ireland, Scotland and England. The managers make huge bonuses, go on expensive skiing holidays, buy designer clothes and shoes and watch porn during working hours and organise sex theme parties. Medical decisions are taken by non-medical managers. Employees are forced to counter sign consent forms without having seen the patient and often in advance. Employees have been forced to anaesthetise against the protocols of the Royal College and they told their employees that the GMC and Royal Colleges were in their pockets. The employee is supposed to have signed a deal of confidentiality with his employer so this story never made the papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In the Mail on Sunday (4/9/2005), A former administrator of the Marie Stopes Raleigh abortion clinic in Brixton described the atmosphere and environment of her former place of work. She said, “The more people you got booked in for terminations the better your bonus would be, I was under pressure to ensure people had their terminations so that Marie Stopes could keep the money” and “Then there were the consultations… girls would come in expecting to discuss it with a doctor but the clinic would use nurses because it would save time… the nurses would get them over with within ten minutes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The in depth assessment did not include an analysis of how abortion providers, who receive million of pounds of taxpayers money, are allowed to lobby the Government for decriminalisation, buffer zones and international aid? Matt Hancock, a minister for the Cabinet Office in February 2016, said that “Taxpayers money” must not be wasted on the farce of Government lobbying government.” The previous Government made a promise that “taxpayers won’t be made to foot the bill for political campaigning and political lobbying.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Furthermore, would the study of harassment extend to Parliamentarians who have spoken about abortion, such as Nadine Dorries MP who has been considerably bullied? The message to Nadine was simple from those she was attacked by: ‘speak about abortion in the Parliament and we will intimidate you.’ Nadine was formerly a nurse, who assisted in abortions. She witnessed babies that were born alive, who were supposed to be aborted, and the total disregard for human life that existed where she worked. A member of the House of Lords, David Alton had his office burnt to the ground when it was known he would campaign against abortion. The organisation EMILY’s List provides money for pro-abortion women to secure seats as MPs in a cash for policies approach. This kind of behaviour should not be tolerated in British politics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would your in depth assessment include analysis of where the current abortion law is being broken on a daily basis in the United Kingdom? The abortion industry has demonstrated from a litany of cases worldwide that it has little to no regard for the legal limitations under which it is supposed to operate, or for the safety or well being of its clients. 98% of British abortions are carried out on the grounds of protecting the mental health of women. In 2011, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges published a report concluding that abortion poses no greater risk to mental health than childbirth for those with unwanted pregnancies. Over 1,000 times a day, British doctors are signing legal doctors authorising abortions on mental health grounds, when there are no mental health grounds for abortion. In reality, 98% of abortions in the UK today are illegal. The doctors are either ignorant, or committing perjury by being deliberately disingenuous. Also of note is the CQC report on the behaviour and actions of Marie Stopes International, and allegations of bonuses for abortion staff meeting quotas. With the vested financial interests of abortion provision, abortion providers in the United Kingdom will usually receive a 3 or 4 figure sum for an abortion, largely paid for by taxpayers, after providing “impartial” advice on whether to have one or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would the report include evidence from many groups who peacefully and calmly offer support, friendship, practical advice or help, financial support and housing outside abortion centres? Would the report acknowledge the vested financial interests of abortion providers to demonise these groups for political and ideological reasons? The in depth investigation failed to listen to pro-life organisations who have experienced considerable harassment outside abortion centres? Many of the these organisations would be happy to give invaluable advice and testimony to the many questions that you have and experience considerable and extensive harassment for years despite behaving in a peaceful, prayerful and legal manner. Surely if they are interested in harassment, many of the people ironically and erroneously accused of harassment but who actually receive it would be a valuable testimony for in depth research. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But none of this is relevant for a hatchet job, or Yvette Cooper, who gets her ideas from legal procedure from Alice in Wonderland. “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first - verdict afterwards.” </span></div>
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Wou</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">l</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">d every Sunday Mass from now until my last child hit the age of reason </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">b</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e a mission </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">impossible</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, r</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">quiring</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">alert cunning</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and physical </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">skills</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> J</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ason Bourne</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">?</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Is this really what Christ meant when</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> he said “suffer the little children to come unto [Him]”?</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">B</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eing</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a father </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">4 children under 5 years old, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">question</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> wasn’t going away,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> even though my exit times were improving</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">A</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">dvice I’d get </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">priests</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; 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line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">denying that there is a problem at all, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to downright </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">medieval </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eccentric</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ity</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; 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<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Then</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">o</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ne Sunday</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> it struck me.</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; 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line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to justify the very thing I was tying to avoid, namely the blight of my children at Mass</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">helped me to see exactly what I was doing wrong</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Suffer</span></span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; 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<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">But before </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I explain what I mean</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> we need to agree </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that all that noise is wrong</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, and </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">look at why </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the common solutions don’t work.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Doting g</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">randmas </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and their </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">type</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">will</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">console</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> you</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">telling you that the cries they hear are t</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he bab</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ies talking to the angels. M</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">aybe.</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">But </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">we’re</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> not tal</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">king about</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> one</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">secluded</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">coo</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">floating heavenward</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">o</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">n</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a cloud of</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> incense</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">We’re</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">talking about </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">howl after howl</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. 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But, </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">this is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, the source and summit of the Church’s life and mission</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> – not </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">simply a</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">chance</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to gather</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> faithfully together</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> hoping to feel</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> some</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">thing</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Christian</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Now generally, t</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">olutions that</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">present themselves</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">are this</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">: </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">either </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">don’t take</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> your</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">child</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ren</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to Mass</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at all, </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">or </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">entertain</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> better whilst </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">they’re</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> there</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">But </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I believe that neither sit</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> well with Matthew 10:14.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It seems </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pretty </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">straightforward</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the text </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Suffer the little children </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">does not</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> support</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> leaving</span></span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">your </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">children </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at home</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Unless the child is </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ill</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">few </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">would say</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> that</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> there’s</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reason </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> deprive </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">children</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of all th</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">os</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e excellent graces. </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In addition, it seems</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to me, not taking your children to Sunday Mass would require breaking up the family unit in an age when the witness of the family </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; 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W</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hen you </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">appeal to </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the majority of</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reasonable</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> people </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">explain why</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">your placid infant</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">progressively turn</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> into a squirming 45lbs slippery salmon and ultimately into one possessed by a demon, the</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ir</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> answer is</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> almost</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">always </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">some variation of</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">boredom</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It’</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s unnatural! 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<span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">If you take </span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">[children]</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> into </span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> service with you, pack little personal church bags containing quiet things like inexpensive trinkets, crayons and a small tablet, tiny dollies or mini stuffed animals, cereal or cheese sticks. The children should only see this bag on Sundays at church”. </span></span></div>
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line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> 24/7</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">/365</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">We tried this</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> for years</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; 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line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Why doesn’t the cereal have milk?</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” “Is there any chocolate?” </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Do you want some?”</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Of course, there were also the un</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; 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line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">such as, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“I</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">f I </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hurl</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> this </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">inexpensive trinket at those </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">burning</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> candles</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> will Daddy </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">get mad</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">?</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> followed by the</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> help of every congregant in a </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">5 metre</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> radius</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Personal Church</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Bags, (PCB’s)</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> or</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> any variation there of, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">would be better called WMD’s – Weapons of M</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ass </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">D</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">istraction. </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">They start by distracting the child</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> at Mass</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, and end up distracting the masses.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It was </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">whilst suffering </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the aftermath of one of these WMD’s, coupled with the </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">text </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Suffer the little children to come unto me </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">maniacally</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ringing </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in my head, that </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a ray of light </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pierced</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> th</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">r</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ough the clouds of dust</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> smoke</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and rubble</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The problem</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">food and toys</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, I understood, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">is</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">this</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">; </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was providing</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">these things</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> distract </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> child</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ren</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from the</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">on</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ly</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reason </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">are</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">there - </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">honour</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> God an</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">d to pray.</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Moreover,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">even with the more subtle gestures, like</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">smiling </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> or</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">giving </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> kisses</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was again distracting </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> from the only reason </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y were</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> there. I was, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in effect, </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">preventing</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> my little child</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ren</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to come unto Him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">having decided that </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it was </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">wrong</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> that I </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">leave the</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">children</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> at home</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, but also wrong to </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">provide entertainment</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, then the only thing left was for me to bring them </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to Mass </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and ignore them,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and turn</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">attention to the altar</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. A</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">part from quiet reminders </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and whispered instructions,</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">this is exactly what </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> have done</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and t</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he effect </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">has been</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">incredible</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, if not </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">miraculous</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">At first, unsure of </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> new module</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> without any ‘aids’</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, we sat at the back to facilitate </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">some </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">swift exits.</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> But the children quickly </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">began to learn</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> The si</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mple method </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of ‘ignoring’</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">teaching them that </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">‘</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it’s God’s time, not yours little one</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; 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<span class="s10" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">● For an excellent article on instructing children at Mass - widely available on the internet - read </span><span class="s11" style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; line-height: 12px;">Transubstantiation, by G.E.M. Anscombe</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-25156713698675562522016-06-17T20:14:00.001+01:002016-06-17T20:14:08.628+01:00Worldwide Witness Webinar<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0zhjQ08BU-E" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-57516252473544289232015-07-14T11:34:00.001+01:002015-07-14T11:34:43.659+01:00Planned Parenthood Uses Partial-Birth Abortions to Sell Baby Parts<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jjxwVuozMnU" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-38723410997775990972014-07-07T12:05:00.002+01:002014-07-07T12:05:12.881+01:00new website: RobertColquhoun.comI have a new website: please now visit: RobertColquhoun.com<br />
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Thank you! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-84716554381094209332014-06-27T10:13:00.001+01:002014-06-27T10:13:30.565+01:00Buffer ZonesThe Supreme Court has <a href="http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/supreme-court-decides-pro-lifers-have-1st-amendment-right-to-public-property-outside-abortion">struck down</a> a Massachusetts law that created a <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-unanimously-strikes-down-massachusetts-abortion-buff">"buffer zone"</a> around the state's abortion clinics. The law prevented sidewalk counsellors from adequately providing access to incoming patients.<br />
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The Court held that the Massachusetts law violated the First Amendment. The 2007 Law discriminated against peaceful pro-life activists by prohibiting them from "entering or remaining on a public way or sidewalk adjacent" to a stand-alone abortion facility. But the law did not apply to everyone. Abortion clinic employees were able to enter the "zone" and speak with women and encourage them to have abortions.<br />
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The "buffer zone" only applied to those against abortion and allowed the police to arrest and charge any person engaged in pro-life advocacy. Actions against the law included speaking, praying, wearing t-shirts, signs, leaflets and making approaches to women entering the abortion centre. The law banned all methods of communicating a pro-life message on the pavement.<br />
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How extraordinary that in a country where the First Amendment should be most protected, in a public space, that pro-lifers were silenced for so long.<br />
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In the United Kingdom, no such buffer law exists and free speech is strongly enshrined in law. It is only at certain times that the free speech of pro-lifers has been <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651183/Police-use-Draconian-riot-law-break-pro-life-vigil-outside-abortion-clinic.html">challenged.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-89530307404245160122014-04-30T16:32:00.003+01:002014-04-30T16:32:59.033+01:00Lila Rose talk in London<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SzwF3js3qfY" width="560"></iframe><br />
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This is a talk by Lila Rose in London, talking about the work of Live Action in the USA. Well worth watching!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-91005819292571491192014-04-22T22:23:00.001+01:002014-04-22T22:23:31.505+01:00Lila Rose talk in London<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/145734944&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Last week, Lila Rose, spoke in London about the work of Live Action. You can listen to the talk here on the soundcloud.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-61845507568769741272014-04-22T22:21:00.001+01:002014-04-22T22:22:25.721+01:00Abortion in the UK: A summary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Abortion in the UK: a summary (April 2014)<br />
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Statistics for 2012 (unless stated):<br />
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Total population of the UK: <br />
63,705,000 <br />
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Total female population of the UK:<br />
32,390,000 1<br />
(of whom 26,542,000 are aged 16+)<br />
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Total births/year in the UK:<br />
813,200 1<br />
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Total abortions/year:<br />
197,570 (Eng, Wales & Scotland)<br />
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Pregnancies ending in abortion:<br />
Approximately 1 in 5<br />
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Note: Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland<br />
Totals since 1967<br />
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Total abortions since 1967: 7,906,000 (Eng, Wales & Scotland)<br />
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Abortions among all women aged 15+: Approximately 1 in 3 of all adult women in the UK will have at least one abortion during their lifetime.<br />
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Legal situation in the UK<br />
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Abortion was legalised in the United Kingdom (excluding N.I) in 1967 for babies up to 28 weeks in the womb. A later amendment in 1990 reduced the time limit to 24 weeks, however a new clause added at that time allowed for handicapped babies to be aborted up to birth.<br />
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However, many would argue that due to the wording of the abortion act – which states that if two registered medical practitioners are of the opinion “formed in good faith” that “continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman” then abortion is not an offence – in the vast majority of cases, abortion is actually still illegal; as no doctor could genuinely justify the above statement truly acting in “good faith”. <br />
Main abortion providers<br />
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National Health Service hospitals undertook 35% of all abortions in 2012. <br />
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The NHS also funded 62% of all privately contracted abortions in 2012, of which the two main providers are:<br />
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- Marie Stopes International<br />
- Original ‘family planning’ clinic founded in 1921 in London by the Eugenicist Marie Stopes (b.1880, d.1958).<br />
- Marie Stopes International founded in 1976.<br />
- Today, 17 ‘clinics’ that undertake abortions across England.<br />
- Cost for an abortion: from £545 to £2,040.<br />
- Annual income (2012) £173million (worldwide)<br />
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- British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) <br />
- Founded in 1968, the year the abortion law came into effect.<br />
- Today, 19 ‘clinics’ across England, Wales & Scotland. <br />
- Cost for an abortion: from £545 to £1,695.<br />
- Annual income (2012) £27million<br />
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Just 3% of all abortions in the UK in 2012 were privately funded.3<br />
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Public opinion on abortion <br />
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2009 MORI poll Should women have the right of access abortion:<br />
• 57% Strongly agree or tend to agree<br />
• 12% Neither agree nor disagree<br />
• 19% Tend to disagree (7%) or strongly disagree (12%)<br />
• 12% Don't know or preferred not to answer<br />
2005 YouGov/Daily Telegraph <br />
Poll<br />
• 57% in favour of 24 weeks or greater<br />
• 28% in favour of 12 weeks or lower<br />
• 6% responded that abortion should never be allowed<br />
2004 Times/Populus poll • 75% believe it should be mostly or always legal<br />
• 20% believe it should "mostly" be illegal<br />
• 4% believe it should "always" be illegal<br />
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Recent Developments (most recent first)<br />
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In March 2014 an investigation undertaken for Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ television programme revealed that several hospitals across the UK were incinerating the remains of premature babies, with no dignity shown to the foetuses. In some incidences, the babies were thrown in with ‘industrial waste’ and used to provide power to heat the hospitals. As a result of the programme the practice was banned by the government and the babies must now be dealt with in a more respectful and compassionate manner. <br />
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** In February 2014 the Daily Telegraph ran another series of undercover investigations; this time going into pro-life counselling centres. Their reports filmed a member of staff in one of these centres advising a woman that abortion will increase her risk of becoming a child abuser. Other advice was given with regard to the abortion-breast cancer link. Overall, the story made a few headlines, but was nowhere near as big as the investigation into sex-selection abortions. A number of pro-life commentators in the UK agreed that the staff in these clinics were wrong to have said what they said. <br />
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Towards the end of 2013 the Department of Health announced a consultation on proposed new regulations for abortion clinics; in particular with respect to how women are treated in these clinics and what information is given to them. The consultation process was very controversial, not least because it was not publicly announced in the normal way that all government consultations are announced. Additionally the revision of the procedures tried to sneak in certain provisions, including taking away the need for two doctors to have actually met or examined a woman seeking an abortion. The government will issue its final proposals in response to the recommendations later in 2014.<br />
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In July 2013 an independent Parliamentary Inquiry into abortion on the grounds of disability was published. The vast majority of those who gave written evidence for the report believed that allowing abortion up to birth on the grounds of disability was discriminatory, contrary to the spirit of the Equality Act, and does affect wider public attitudes towards discrimination. The Commission that published the report recommended a review of the disability provision in the Abortion Act 1967. However to date (April 2014) no such action has been taken. The report was published one year after Britain hosted what was agreed to have been a very successful Paralympics games in London.<br />
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In September 2013, The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it will not pursue a prosecution of two doctors who agreed to arrange illegal abortions; in effect making it legal to abort babies based upon their gender. The announcement by the CPS caused much controversy, with many observers stating that the body was in effect defining laws which only parliament has the authority to make. 50 MPs called for a review of the CPS’s decision. <br />
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In June 2013, BPAS announced that they would stop performing abortions at their Bedford Square (central London) clinic. This clinic was where 40 Days for Life had just finished holding its fifth vigil outside the clinic, and several other pro-life groups had been praying outside the clinic for many years previously. It was initially announced that the clinic would continue to provide other services, however in February 2014 a 40 Days for Life volunteer saw that the premises were available to rent; making this the first permanent closure of an abortion facility outside of the United States after a 40 Days for Life campaign. <br />
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In March 2012 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) undertook a series of unannounced inspections at abortion clinics across the country. They found that 1 in 5 clinics were in some way not following proper standards. The biggest problem they found was the mass ‘pre-signing’ of consent forms by doctors, i.e. authorising women to have abortions without even reviewing their cases. The incident caused much consternation among abortion industry leaders!<br />
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** In February 2012 the Daily Telegraph ran a series of articles based upon an undercover investigation into sex-selection abortion that they had undertaken. Several doctors at abortion facilities were filmed authorising abortions based upon the fact that the patient didn’t want to have a baby girl. The investigation made headlines for several days and sparked much debate. The doctors caught sanctioning the abortions were removed from their positions at the clinics and the incidents reported to the police.<br />
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In autumn 2010, Robert Colquhoun brought the first 40 Days for Life campaign to the United Kingdom. <br />
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Saints to pray to for an end to abortion in the UK<br />
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Our Lady of Walsingham Sts George, Andrew, David & Patrick<br />
Our Lady of Guadalupe St Thomas More & St John Fisher<br />
Blessed Mother Teresa St Edward the Confessor<br />
Blessed John Henry Newman St Jude (Patron saint of hopeless cases)<br />
St Gianna Molla St Maria Goretti <br />
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Lila Rose, President of Live Action will be visiting the United<br />
Kingdom on April 13 and 14.<br />
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Lila Rose is the president of Live Action, a new media non-profit<br />
dedicated to ending abortion and building a culture of life. Lila<br />
founded Live Action when she was fifteen years old. The group uses new<br />
media to teach the public about the humanity of the unborn and<br />
investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and<br />
defenceless. As Live Action's President, Lila leads undercover<br />
investigations into America's most notorious abortion facilities,<br />
shining a light on the greatest human rights abuse of our time through<br />
national media campaigns.<br />
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Live Action also focuses on educating youth across the country, using<br />
its student magazine, the Advocate, and in depth education programs to<br />
spread the truth about human dignity, equal protection for all people,<br />
and the evils of the abortion industry. Live Action hosts Live Action<br />
News a widely read pro-life news service, and oversees the largest<br />
pro-life social media platform on the web, including over 600,000<br />
facebook fans and over 30,000 followers on twitter.<br />
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Lila is a regular on the O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, The Laura Ingraham<br />
Show, as well as many other national TV and radio programs. Her work<br />
has been featured on practically every major news outlet, from CBS to<br />
CNN, from the Los Angeles Times to the Washington Post. Recently, Lila<br />
was named among the Red Alert's '30 under 30' and among the National<br />
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Sunday April 13, 7pm, Ealing Abbey Hall, 2 Marchwood Crescent, Ealing W5 2DZ<br />
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Monday April 14, 2pm-5pm Pro-life boot camp training, Farm Street<br />
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Monday April 14, 7pm Farm Street Parish Hall, 114 Mount Street,<br />
Mayfair, London W1K 3AH<br />
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Some well renowned filmmakers are making an appeal to make a film about Kermit Gosnell.</div>
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell is the most prolific serial killer in American History, but almost no one knows who he is. </div>
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The Grand Jury investigating Kermit Gosnell's horrific crimes said this:</div>
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<i> This case is about a doctor who killed babies ... What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors .... Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it. (Report of the Grand Jury)</i> </div>
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he censorship of the Gosnell story ends now. </div>
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We are raising funds for this movie through a revolutionary website called <b>Indiegogo. </b></div>
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<b>Indiegogo </b>enables “<b>crowdfunding</b>” for important projects.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">But here’s the catch.</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> We've set the budget. But if we fail to raise our target budget, Indiegogo will return all the funds, we will received nothing and the film will never be made.</span></div>
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Indiegogo allows us to bypass the Hollywood studios and the usual funding sources for movies.</div>
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Hollywood never would fund a movie such as this.</div>
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We funded our last film FrackNation using crowdfunding.</div>
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So far, the biggest “crowd funded” film of all-time is the <b><i>Veronica Mars </i></b>movie, a teen detective story that asked for $2.1m and raised $5.7m, we think the Gosnell movie is more important, we think you do too.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">So we are asking for $2.1m and we are hoping to break the record and make history. </span></div>
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With your help we're going to hire the best screenwriter, director and actors to make sure that the story of Kermit Gosnell gets into every home in America. </div>
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Please pledge right now. </div>
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We tell a lot about ourselves by the stories we choose to tell and the ones we want to cover up or ignore. Please help us tell this important story. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">It's a frightening testament to the power of the media that very few people even know about </span><b style="font-size: 13px;">Kermit Gosnell: America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer</b><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></div>
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This is your chance to bypass the media “<b>information gatekeepers</b>” to get tens of millions of Americans thinking about what happened in Philadelphia. </div>
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<b>Please </b>send a message that we don't have to wait for someone else to tell the stories that matter, we can do it ourselves.</div>
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Please pledge right now and then please then get 10 friends to pledge. </div>
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Thank you so much for helping us make history.</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/88064707">What is Covenant Eyes?</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/covenanteyes">Covenant Eyes</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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More than a decade ago, Covenant Eyes founder Ron DeHaas faced the same questions many people face today.<br />
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“How can I teach my children to use the Internet with integrity?”<br />
“How do I guard my own heart and remain pure online?”<br />
“How do I serve as an example to my family and church?”<br />
Realizing the threat the Internet poses without proper monitoring, he formed Covenant Eyes to equip people to protect themselves and their families from online dangers.<br />
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Located in Owosso, Michigan, Covenant Eyes is the pioneer of Internet Accountability software, empowering our members to maintain their online integrity. Aware of an ever-growing need to better equip parents, Covenant Eyes has developed a family Internet filter that restricts usage based on parental controls.<br />
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Covenant Eyes has grown to more than 50 employees serving members in more than 150 countries.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-13669023673013890062014-03-02T22:50:00.002+00:002014-03-02T22:50:26.127+00:00The economics of sex by the Austin Institute<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cO1ifNaNABY" width="560"></iframe><br />
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This Research Animate pulls together some of the key sexual economics arguments made by social scientists, including Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Vohs, Timothy Reichert, Mark Regnerus, and George Akerlof. For more: http://www.austin-institute.org/ai-re...<br />
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Essential to the mission of the Austin Institute is the dissemination of both thought-provoking and rigorous academic research on family, sexuality, social structures and human relationships. In order to engage a wider audience, we are developing select research projects into a medium amenable to our digital age.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-77570202571006582412014-02-26T14:25:00.003+00:002014-02-26T14:25:36.433+00:00Save lives, change the world<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/87278302?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/87278302">40 Days for Life: Save Lives. Change the World.</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/40daysforlife">40 Days for Life</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Watch this inspiring video to learn how YOU can save lives and change the world. You will see former abortion workers and also babies spared from abortion in the video. Inspiring high value content!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-11537056339174281502014-02-26T12:16:00.003+00:002014-02-26T12:16:39.458+00:00Today's Throwaway Culture - Talk by Monsignor O'Reilly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Monsignor O'Reilly, the founder of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants is speaking in London on Tuesday 11 March at 6pm at Vaughan House, 46 Francis Street, SW1P 1QN on "Today's throwaway culture." He is a great speaker and this event is well worth attending. His group peacefully and prayerfully wins hearts for the Gospel of Life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-24363037468720132982014-02-21T12:20:00.001+00:002014-02-21T12:20:48.490+00:00Abby Johnson and Shawn Carney Talk in Oxford<div class="issuuembed" data-configid="1576682/6818607" style="height: 679px; width: 525px;">
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This is the talk Questions and Answers following the Oxford Talk with Abby Johnson and Shawn Carney. Really fascinating and well worth reading. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-58803299495882214182014-02-21T12:07:00.001+00:002014-02-21T12:07:07.375+00:00Ascension Press - one of the best Catholic publishers out thereSome of the most impressive Catholic resources that I have come across have been published by <a href="http://ascensionpress.com/">Ascension Press.</a><br />
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The study programs, books and other resources are faith formation materials for Catholic parishes, schools and organisations. Courses include theology of the body, Church history, Confirmation, Bible Study, Marriage preparation just to mention some of the areas. I am not aware of any other organisation that has effectively communicated what the New Evangelization means for lay Catholics and how to communicate this to a wider audience.<br />
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Jeff Cavins has produced some fantastic resources to help Christians to fully understand the Bible. <a href="http://ascensionpress.com/t/category/study-programs/catholic-bible-study">The Great Bible Timeline</a> is a brilliant resource for helping the average Catholic understand the Bible and then also apply it to their life. All of his resources are well worth reading.<br />
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Christopher West is one of the leading proponents of promoting John Paul II's Theology of the Body. The resources for this field are outstanding and life changing message for many people.<br />
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One of the most impressive programs is the Confirmation study program just about to come out. It is astonishing to think that Catholic parishes have not considered having a more systematised methodology of the confirmation process before and than it is done on more of a random process. This study program looks outstanding from all accounts so far.<br />
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I highly recommend their resources, and hope that their message spreads far and wide, to the ends of the world and back again! Some of the books and study programs will be life changing for participants and help to explain the beauty and joy of the Gospel in a new way for the modern world.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-9419022576986507282014-02-17T10:18:00.002+00:002014-02-17T10:18:36.576+00:00March for Life in Birmingham<div style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto;">
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The March for Life is happening in Birmingham this March for the third year running. Please attend! All the details are provided on the flyer above. The event is from 12.30 to 3.30pm assembling at St Chad's Cathedral and posters and banners will be provided.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-37139938448407315452014-02-07T23:24:00.000+00:002014-02-07T23:24:12.051+00:00Stephanie Gray at the Students for Life Conference - brilliant! <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rXeTicSChx8" width="560"></iframe><br />
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BPAS Bedford Square has become the 45th abortuary to shut down for good following a 40 Days for Life campaign. </div>
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This is the first ever abortuary to close outside of North America following a 40 Days for Life campaign.</div>
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The abortuary stopped <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00159N3K94WeQzBW6ynJ5Sv_AKobB3jKE7Dkx9VjYEeXSg0vOtyQi_fHaIQoXE9YtmoeBGyGX_4O7dYlRUViXhWn9yEELZenejsCYzMnVPQNOH1awBHbYvBUnqbcxlTrWuCOYA60XYjqS5Hgrm_7LPy2NzB7UEwNOXbysNH88SRHnu609bohaTKEsDxlwKGOagzUKn8mrsKhyfWgRINSe3IubNbhAeIqzAZ-FcoAqT37Co0zDDg9vZWRSVjTsiwOPYx7JlUFM3h5cbXRzv9aSR_BQ==&c=V7SV5pv_SrH-jRPkM5SepIzhMgAKBLEy_RSOXCwNIFYmENwVck3z3Q==&ch=OJazsoA7aLvOVLq6ELnANsGsSHnPOxEJT52zXFa-RxWXnSb1QAjiIQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">doing abortions last summer</a>, however it has only been just recently that the centre has closed for good. The property is available for <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00159N3K94WeQzBW6ynJ5Sv_AKobB3jKE7Dkx9VjYEeXSg0vOtyQi_fHfKmi3p8DXjEMkFy6LsCpHX0sLrVNO_PTi0NRUagJnwzkj-Evku8NQGUmVgJ2gFZ26SX9AoERCzCX1TeD27SVXha97OFgshOFwjm-HKVurQwSfvTGgYMOfnkea16WzDd_vtSiYpYl_2nWxrv_NDLX2IpqhoXlgA3zVBAvVIH-luw3EGymI7pphP2AfSkSktwbQ==&c=V7SV5pv_SrH-jRPkM5SepIzhMgAKBLEy_RSOXCwNIFYmENwVck3z3Q==&ch=OJazsoA7aLvOVLq6ELnANsGsSHnPOxEJT52zXFa-RxWXnSb1QAjiIQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">£290,000 p.a. on the market.</a></div>
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Marie Stopes in Whitfield Street and BPAS Twickenham have seen a considerable decline in opening hours and abortion numbers over the last year, both 40 days for life vigil sites. </div>
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Over 2,500 hours of prayer were organised outside BPAS Bedford Square, and over 50 women scheduled for an abortion chose life for their children as a result of our peaceful, prayerful and legal presence there. </div>
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The story is covered extensively in the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00159N3K94WeQzBW6ynJ5Sv_AKobB3jKE7Dkx9VjYEeXSg0vOtyQi_fHfKmi3p8DXjEukKOHazsSKMys97ffw9pcnLaiFBPHX5wJsMv7Wgs3Rn59kS_ktxr1h8WIeG1WwyZ1UGTCNO8KP9S2BQO9kbedh_nagFfSJCMP-L36Sxxb3GmhjiqOuZ-lJHtoqD5nV83-EQOFScvk0H_AM_yqZxCHCTOYZGJcbVVQG_SikUe70lSFwNZGpC30w==&c=V7SV5pv_SrH-jRPkM5SepIzhMgAKBLEy_RSOXCwNIFYmENwVck3z3Q==&ch=OJazsoA7aLvOVLq6ELnANsGsSHnPOxEJT52zXFa-RxWXnSb1QAjiIQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">40 Days for Life book</a> launched last year. </div>
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Will the abortuary near you be next?</div>
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This latest news shows that prayer has the ability to change hearts and minds and impact local communities. </div>
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Our next campaign begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5 - please join us in prayer! </div>
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Yours for life,</div>
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Robert Colquhoun</div>
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From 28 February 2014 to Sunday 2 March at St Patrick's, Soho, the Westminster Office for Family Life are holding a conference "Choose Life - Choose Love. Beauty, Freedom and the Family."<br />
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Speakers include Sr Renee Mirkes, Nicky and Sila Lee and John Henry Westen as well as Jonathan Doyle. Looks well worth attending.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-53207733145513678182014-01-30T00:42:00.003+00:002014-01-30T00:42:29.669+00:00Lizanne shares her story of choosing life<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/85324470?portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/85324470">The Jaala Story - Sidewalk Advocates for Life</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user24543312">Sidewalk Advocates</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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A mother, Lizanne, shares her story of choosing life, and encountering love, peace, and prayer on the sidewalk. For more inspiring stories of life, and to learn more about Sidewalk Advocacy, go to SidewalkAdvocates.org.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497972203409074547.post-77655222479385118402014-01-29T13:47:00.001+00:002014-01-29T13:47:08.574+00:00Breaking the Silence Talk<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/131988252&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Here is the Breaking the Silence talk.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0