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“Pro Choice”: It is salutary to hear and encouraging contemplating. It is very human in its substance and humane in its implications. “Pro Choice” properly means and correctly implies that all ordinary adults in particular, have their respective intellectual faculty plus will functions to depend on and use accordingly. As already well known and understood, the usual working collaborative interaction between the intellectual and volitional attributes of every man and woman goes this way: First, the intellect comes to know something as to its nature, implications and consequences. Second, the will decides to have or pursue it if the thing is truly good, proper or right – - or resolves to avoid it or have nothing to do with it if the thing thus known is a actually bad, improper or wrong. Third, the person concerned feels good or bad, depending on the eventual option and consequent action he or she took between the alternative of good or bad, right or wrong.  Continue reading here.

San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Fiesta Celebration at Our Lady of Pompeii Church NYC

The Our Lady of Pompeii Church at the village will be hosting the Fiesta Celebration for San Lorenzo de Manila and his companion Martys on September 26th.  On its 29th year, Fr. Matthew Didone, CS will be the main celebrant of the concelebrated Mass at 3pm, followed by a procession and reception.  Details on the flyer.

The presentation will be on September 12.  Free will offering accepted.

Details

One of the arrows that struck St. Sebastian

I thought it would be a good incentive to keep track of incorruptibles and relics that I wish one day I would be able to see and touch.  Today, I came across the “The Roman Sacristan” blog with a picture on the left.  Framed is one of the arrows that struck St. Sebastian, a popular Roman Martyr of the 3rd Century.  There is also a part of the column kept in the Basilica where the saint was tied to during his martyrdom.

San Sebastiano fuori le mura

The Basilica known as San Sebastiano fuori le Mura is located outside the Aurelian walls along the Appian Way.  It was built on top of a catacomb, believed to be a temporary resting place of the remains of the apostles Peter & Paul before they were transferred the to two basilicas that carries their name.  Aside from the arrow in the basilica is a stone believed to be carrying the footprint of Christ related to the biblical “Quo vadis?”.

Quo Vadis

The picture of the white stone here is the one that I took in the Church of Quo Vadis, a bit of a walk from the Basilica, believed to be the spot where Peter, fleeing from Rome, have met Christ; the spot where the famous “Quo vadis?” was uttered. Had I known that this Basilica is nearby I would have had tried to endure the heat and walked further down to see this magnificent Basilica…hopefully next time and soon.

Source: CBCP

CAGAYAN DE ORO City, August 12, 2010—Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J., D.D., said that legalizing divorce will destroy the moral fiber of society because “marriage itself is a social contract.”

Interviewed during a break in the “Peace and Reconciliation Workshop—Enhancing the Study and Practice of Catholic Peacebuilding in Mindanao” Thursday morning, Ledesma explained that divorce is immoral because it goes against the teaching of Christ that marriage is a lifelong commitment between two persons of the opposite sex.

According to Ledesma, legalizing divorce “is another way of saying that the lifelong commitment in marriage is no longer viable.”

“Divorce Bill” proponents Gabriela Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan and Rep. Emerenciana de Jesus claimed that legalizing divorce will help in putting an end of domestic violence still prevalent among married Filipino couples because it will give these couples “another legal remedy that they can resort to in addition to the country’s existing laws on legal separation and annulment.”

But Ledesma stressed that divorce will ultimately tear up society, adding that domestic violence

“Legalizing something that is immoral will not make it right but will make it worse,” he said.

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In lieu of our strong campaign against the call for legalizing abortion as well as the ratification of the Reproductive Health Bill, PRO-LIFE
PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, pledges its support for Parañaque Representative Roilo Golez’s House Bill 13 better known as “An Act Providing for the Safety and Protection of the Unborn & for Other Purposes”

This bill acknowledges the unborn child as a human being with human personality and extends the mantle of legal protection to the child from
the moment of conception. The bill also aims to promote the right of the mother and the children most especially the unborn child to assistance
including proper care and nutrition, special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other conditions prejudicial to
their development.

Attached is the soft file of the House Bill no. 13 & Petition Form. Please Print the petition form and give it to your parishes organizations &
communities for them to sign. Kindly send it back or bring the signed petition at Pro-Life Philippines Office San Lorenzo Ruiz Student Catholic
Center2486 Legarda St. Sampaloc, Manila

Click the link below and sign-up our on-line petition

Support Cong. Roilo Golez’s House Bill 13.
“An Act Providing For the Safety & Protection of the Unborn Child & for Other Purposes”

Disseminate the link and have students, faculty, staff, sisters, parents, parishioners and your friends
sign up the petition. We hope to gather a million signatures to support this Pro-Life Bill.

http://www.petitiononline.com/prolyf/

Thank you very much,

Pro-Life Philippines Foundation Inc.
www.prolife.org.ph
Tel. 7337027/ Fax 7349425
CP 0919-2337783

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