To what end: the tallest and most expensive skyscraper in the world?
From Genesis 11: 1-9 we have the story and lesson of the Tower of Babel: The whole world spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. Now, as people moved eastwards they found a valley in the land of Shinar where they settled. They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire.' For stone they used bricks, and for mortar they used bitumen. 'Come,' they said, 'let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top reaching heaven. Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we do not get scattered all over the world.' Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built. 'So they are all a single people with a single language!' said the Lord. 'This is only the start of their undertakings! Now nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they cannot understand one another.' The Lord scattered them thence all over the world, and they stopped building the city. That is why …
Woman who sought assisted suicide 26 years ago is happy to be alive.
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition We received a message from Jeanette Hall who commented on the article concerning France legalizing euthanasia. Jeanette wrote:Alex. It is 26 years (July 17, 2000) that I learned I had terminal colon cancer and wanted to follow that same course with Oregon's law and asked Dr. Kenneth Stevens to help me end my life. I pray there are many Dr. Stevens in France that will want to see their patient live. Still "Great to be Alive."Dr Kenneth Stevens is a physician in Oregon who helped Jeanette find a reason to live. The text from the youtube video explaining the story. The patient that I specifically recall is a patient by the name of Jeanette Hall. She was referred to me by her surgeon. She had a low rectal cancer.So when I saw her I told her what she had, I told her we could treat it with radiation and chemotherapy and said that this is potentially treatable.She said I don't want to go through all that. I had an Aunt who lost her hair and …
O 26 rokov neskôr: Prečo je Jeanette Hall stále vďačná za to, že je nažive: 17. júla 2000 bola Jeanette Hall v americkom štáte Oregon diagnostikovaná rakovina hrubého čreva a konečníka. V presvedčení, že nemá žiadnu budúcnosť, požiadala svojho lekára o asistovanú samovraždu na základe v Oregone nedávno prijatého zákona. Namiesto toho, aby jej vypísal recept, si Dr. Kenneth Stevens našiel čas, aby pochopil jej obavy, a povzbudil ju, aby zvážila liečbu. Jedna otázka všetko zmenila: „Nechceli by ste vidieť, ako váš syn absolvuje policajnú akadémiu?“ Jeanette sa rozhodla pre liečbu. Prežila, zúčastnila sa promócie svojho syna a o niekoľko rokov neskôr povedala Dr. Stevensovi: „Zachránili ste mi život. Keby som išla k lekárovi, ktorý verí v asistovanú samovraždu, už by som tu nebola.“
26 anos depois: Por que razão Jeanette Hall continua grata por estar viva: No Oregon, EUA, a 17 de julho de 2000, Jeanette Hall foi diagnosticada com cancro colorretal. Convencida de que não tinha futuro, pediu ao seu médico que lhe prescrevesse o suicídio assistido, ao abrigo da lei recém-aprovada no Oregon. Em vez de passar a receita, o Dr. Kenneth Stevens dedicou algum tempo a compreender os seus receios e encorajou-a a considerar o tratamento. Uma pergunta mudou tudo: «Não gostaria de ver o seu filho a formar-se na academia de polícia?» Jeanette optou pelo tratamento. Sobreviveu, assistiu à formatura do filho e, anos mais tarde, disse ao Dr. Stevens: «O senhor salvou-me a vida. Se tivesse consultado um médico que acreditasse no suicídio assistido, eu não estaria aqui.»
Archdiocese of Toronto celebrates 50 years of ShareLife: more must be done
It's fifty years since the Archdiocese of Toronto began its ShareLife annual campaign in support of diocesan works and to protect life. The annual fundraising efforts presently collects about $15,000,000. An anniversary Mass will be celebrated at St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica on August 22 by Cardinal Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto. It was 50 years ago that Archbishop Philip Pocock made the right decision to end the Catholic partnership with the United Way. The United Way was funding Planned Parenthood and Catholics are called to protect the unborn. Life is not our own but a gift from God. Pocock was not making a political statement. He was just giving public witness to our faith. ShareLife presently helps to fund 40 Catholic agencies that provide assistance to people not just in the Toronto area but also sound the world, even to those who aren't Catholic. So, let's celebrate the anniversary of ShareLife. However, we must also admit that much more has to be done to bring …
Even saving one life is never a waste of time and money. Must much more be done? Yes.
A waste of time and money. How many abortions or birth control practices were stopped? Not very many.
Death by Organ Donation pushed in Medical Journal.
This article was published by National Review online on July 9, 2026. By Wesley J Smith The legalization of assisted suicide/euthanasia corrupts medical ethics and not just because killing patients or assisting their suicides is a direct violation of the Hippocratic oath. No: Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste also objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Hastened death and organ-harvesting have already been conjoined in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. (In the latter two countries, some cases have involved mentally ill patients.) The practice has been supported in prominent medical journals. It is not alarmism to note that the idea is gaining ever wider acceptance among the medical and bioethics intelligentsia. But killing and then harvesting doesn’t go far enough for some mainstream bioethicists. Where euthanasia is legal, they don’t see why organ procurement can’t also be the means of death …
Euthanasia in Canada is out of control. Since 2016 when it was legalized, the state has now killed over 100,000 Canadians. And those are just the reported cases. This evil must not be legislated anywhere.
A Story of Two Cathedrals – Catholic Worker Movement
This spring I travelled from my home in Iowa to join Catholic Workers and friends from around the country in New York to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of our movement there on May 1, 1933. An added incentive for this journey was to join with activists from around the globe in witnesses for nuclear abolition on the occasion of the United Nations’ Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference that began on Monday, May 3. It was at the May Day festivities that the word was passed that the archbishop of Nagasaki, Japan, who was in town to address the U.N. conference, would be celebrating the 10:15 Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral the next day and several of us decided we would attend. As Martha Hennessy, visiting from Vermont, and I came out of the subway to walk the final few blocks to the cathedral, we were struck by the number of Japanese pilgrims of all ages on the streets of Midtown, greeting New Yorkers and tourists with gifts of origami cranes, gathering petition signatures,…
Please read "Atomic Bomb Secrets" by David J. Dionysius.
Today once again, sadly, there is talk of nuclear war. We must heed the terrible lesson of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mary of Hibuska, pray for us!
"Canada protects trees—Now protect preborn children"
We just signed the petition launched by Campaign Life Coalitionthat "Canada protects trees—Now protect preborn children." Many Gloria TV readers read our post about the issue, Quebec town goes off the deep end: recognizes trees have the right to life. In Canada, sadly, there is no legal protection for the baby in the womb from conception to natural birth. A baby can be aborted at any time during pregnancy. And even some born babies are left to die each year with no criminal charges. Message to the rest of the world: don't be Canada. The petition addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Minister of Justice, and Members of Parliament states: A Quebec town recently recognized trees as living beings with rights, including the “right to life.” Trees deserve care. But what about children in the womb?In Canada, preborn children have no legal protection. Since the 1988 Morgentaler decision, Parliament has failed to pass a law protecting the youngest and most vulnerable members of the human …
What a marvelous opportunity parents have in bringing new life into the world. How tragic that so many today want no more children to be born.
for the beautiful baby.
Ornate Catholic church was on the brink of closing... until priest came up with extraordinary old-fashioned idea that made attendance boom
An ornate Catholic church was on the brink of closure but now sees hundreds of faithful flock to its pews for Mass each week thanks to a priest's extraordinary idea. St Francis de Sales Oratory was founded in 1867 by a group of German immigrants who settled in St Louis, Missouri. The gorgeous church became a landmark in the midwestern city and for decades served parishioners of more than a dozen nationalities. But as families started moving out to the suburbs, the church, dubbed the Cathedral of south St Louis, saw a massive drop in parishioners, the church website states. St Francis de Sales was closed by the Archdiocese of St Louis in June 2005, and the church was forced to merge with another local parish. The church was scheduled to be torn down and sold, but was saved that July when Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke made the church an Oratory where Mass is strictly administered in Latin. St Francis de Sales is now one of about 450 churches across the country that regularly celebrate the …
What a beautiful Catholic Church! ~ Thank you Cardinal Raymond Burke! ~ St. Don Bosco, (protector of youth) 'Ora Pro Nobis'. ~ St. Pius X 'Ora Pro Nobis'. ~
~ Consecration to Mary Queen of the World. ~
~ O Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, we hail thee as Queen of the world. ~ Together with thy Divine Son, thou dost rule over all creation, with which thou hast been endowed, and over which thou dost hold sovereign power for the benefit of all mankind. ~ To the recognition of these thy royal rights, we of our own accord, gladly and freely join the consecration of ourselves, proclaiming that we belong to thee body and soul. ~ We promise to love thee, serve thee, and to glorify thee. In the unity of the Faith and obedience to the Holy Catholic Church we adore thy Divine Son and acknowledge Him to be our King, and we desire to live always beneath the gentle rule of thy maternal scepter. ~ Queen of the World, "reign over us, ~ reign over us with thy Divine Son" in time and in eternity. Amen. ~ Mary is Queen of the World. ~ She is the Queen of each person in particular. ~ St. Catherine Laboure.
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Archdiocese of Chicago's memorial to suicide and Church teaching
The Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich has pushed for the support of the lgbtq+ community. The bishop also backs a synodal church, and most recently his archdiocese dedicated a memorial at the Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside for lives lost by suicide. This kind of memorial, called "At Peace," is first in the Catholic Church. But is this Catholic teaching about life and death? More about this question later. Here's the archdiocesan announcement: Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago will host a prayer service and dedication of the “At Peace” memorial at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside on Friday, June 26 at 1 p.m. for surviving families and loves ones affected by suicide. The memorial will honor the lives lost to suicide and offer a sacred space for prayer and remembrance. The Archdiocese of Chicago is the first Catholic archdiocese in the United States to create a memorial in a Catholic cemetery for survivors and lives lost to suicide. “This shrine stands …
If one wants to appreciate how much good we have without God, know what the difference is between murder and suicide: none.
Église conciliaire et impiétés à tous les niveaux
Le diocèse de Gurk-Klagenfurt, Allemagne, parraine la gay-pride à Villach A l’heure où la Tradition dans toutes ses composantes est écartée par les hiérarques modernistes, dans l’église conciliaire l’impiété sous toutes ses formes est à tous les niveaux. Petit tour d’horizon de ses derniers reniements de la foi catholique. Turin et ses églises inclusives A Turin, en Italie, l’église Saint François d’Assise, du XIIIe siècle, qui a conservé le Saint Suaire pendant sept ans après son transfert de Chambéry, et qui demeure à ce jour une église catholique active de l’archidiocèse de Turin, avec des messes et des offices réguliers, est devenue… le siège liturgique stable de la Communauté évangélique luthérienne de Turin. C’est-à-dire de ceux que l’Église catholique dans sa doctrine traditionnelle nomme des hérétiques. Ainsi, dans cette église catholique, dépendante de l’ordinaire du lieu, le cardinal Roberto Repole, évêque du diocèse, celui qui soi-dit en passant délègue son pouvoir au curé de …
"An Entire Village Celebrates a New Priest in Lebanon"
Watch this inspiring video as "An Entire Village Celebrates a New Priest in Lebanon." It's a story that will warm your heart and soul. From the description pasted on You Tube we read: From the ancient Maronite village of Deir El Ahmar in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, we witnessed one of the most beautiful moments in the life of the Church: the ordination of a new priest. This is the story of an entire community gathered around one vocation as Deacon Johnny Kozah is ordained to the priesthood, becoming Father Johnny Kozah. From the joyful procession through the village to the sacred Divine Liturgy, and finally Father Johnny’s First Divine Liturgy and celebration, this documentary offers a glimpse into a tradition where faith is truly lived. In Deir El Ahmar, we were reminded that the Church is not built of stones, but of people gathered in Christ. Through monks, nuns, priests, seminarians, and laypeople, Christ’s mission continues to flourish from one generation to the next. We hope this film …
I pray God will bless him, and Our Lady protect him.
From the ancient Maronite village of Deir El Ahmar in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, we witnessed one of the most beautiful moments in the life of the Church: the ordination of a new priest.