Abortion
Video: Volunteers came together to make powerful pro-life short film by Peter Baklinski
Adoption
Peru: Her name was Maria Elena by Kelli Rearden
Adoption Tax Credits Should be Expanded, Made Permanent by Mallory Quigley
Video: The Hamel family’s older child and special needs adoption from China
Family Living/Sexual Purity
Pimping Out Our Own Daughters by Steve Deace – Steve writes, “I don’t know Dr. Keith Ablow of Fox News, but as someone that puts the “fun” in fundamentalist I am automatically suspicious of any pop culture psychiatrist. Nevertheless, his latest column for FoxNews.com is absolutely spot-on. Titled ‘Seventeen Magazine Pushing Sex as a Drug to 12-Year Olds,’ it also hits close to home for me as a dad.” Steve Deace is set to be a speaker at the 2013 National Lutherans For Life Conference.
Sky fall: gender ideology comes to the schoolhouse by Adam J. MacLeod and Andrew Beckwith – “Since redefining marriage requires us to deny sexual differences, even school children now have to conform to that principle at the risk of punishment.”
Legalization of Same-Sex “Marriage” is Inevitable by Paul McCain
Persistence is Key — in Marriage as in Life by Stella Morabito
Five Reasons Why American Men Struggle to Find Their Purpose by Joseph Mattera
Video: The friendliest restaurant in America – “Tim Harris was born with Down Syndrome, but with his natural loving demeanor and some help from his family, he runs the friendliest restaurant in America: Tim’s Place in Albuquerque!”
Church
An 76 Year Old Argentinian Jesuit Elected Pope: First Thoughts by Paul McCain – A good, brief, summary from Paul McCain at CPH.
If you are so inclined, these two links offer a fun way to take a look inside and around the Vatican:
A 360-Degree View of the Sistine Chapel
A Virtual Tour of the Catholic State
Political
Pat Caddell Unload on “Racketeering” GOP Consultants – This is worth a read. Pro-life people also need to be aware of what they up against in the political process. For many politicians, “pro-life” is a box to check off, not something they truly care about or believe in.
Odds and Ends
Shama: At 93 Sid Hartman Still Chases the News – I grew up in Minnesota and heard Sid Hartman often on WCCO radio.