Christ’s Agony in the Garden

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Holy Thursday

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Hundreds of babies saved from abortion in recent pro-life campaign

As the 40 Days for Life Campaign nears the completion of its spring session, its leaders claim to have helped saved nearly four hundred babies from abortion. Organizers are now judging the campaign’s effects and considering how to extend its success. The campaign encourages actions like 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end [...]

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ND students: Keep Obama invitation, withdraw honorary degree

A protest by about 150 Notre Dame students occupied the area in front of the university’s administration building on Sunday afternoon as they objected to the invitation of President Obama to speak at the university’s commencement. The students said that refusing to honor Obama with a doctor of laws degree would be an acceptable compromise.
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Young NZ women have the highest rates of sexual disease

Women aged under 21 have the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) of any group.
Researchers from the preventive and social medicine department at Otago University found that women under 21 who had had more than 10 partners 21 per cent of women in their study had an STI rate of 10 per cent or [...]

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Canadian Archbishop: ‘Early Induction’ on Babies with Lethal Fetal Anomaly is “Direct Abortion”

The scandal of Catholic priests advising expectant mothers, whose babies are diagnosed with lethal fetal anomalies, that having an early induction in such cases is not opposed to Catholic teaching, is not new.  The problem was already apparent in 2002, and denounced then by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast in a column in The Catholic Register.
The issue [...]

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What’s happening at Sempa Vita over Easter?

To celebrate Easter and to commemorate the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, we will not be posting any written material on the blog from Thursday evening until Monday morning.
Next Monday and Tuesday the blog will feature one or two articles, and then normal transmission will resume first thing Wednesday morning.
Have a blessed and holy [...]

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