Catholic Fire

From LifesiteNews: Sacrificing their precious sleep and leisure time, more than 70 students from Virginia's Christendom College filled the lawns outside a D.C. Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic on Saturday morning to prayerfully battle abortion and support a handful of student sidewalk counselors offering information on crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to women entering and exiting the facility. Saturday's "Mega-Shield" event was the culminating event of the semester for Shield of Roses, a Christendom pro-life group comprised of students who travel about an hour and fifteen minutes each Saturday morning to the nearest PP facility. Most of the students attend a 7am Mass offered on campus before piling into school vans or personal vehicles. Paul Wilson, the current student head of Shield of Roses, promotes Shield on campus and leads a program of prayer that includes 20 decades of the Rosary, traditional hymns, and the chaplet of Divine Mercy. Members of the college choi...

Via John Francis Borra, SFO veritatis@eaglecom.net

After watching tonight's Republican debates, I felt pretty good about most of the candidates. However, I was most concerned about the way they answered the embryonic stem cell research and the abortion (Roe V. Wade) questions . The candidates that I did not feel I could support at this point in time based on the way they have answered the questions tonight are: Senator McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Governor Romney. All of the above said, "Yes" when questioned about whether or not they approved of embryonic stem cell research. Rudy Giuliani qualified his answer, "Yes, with limitations." I will also say that the way that Romney's response to the question made me wonder whether or not he really understood the question which was repeated to him. Although he replied "Yes" he had a few qualifiers which made it difficult to understand exactly what he meant. The candidates I felt most comfortable with based upon the way they responded to all of the questions ...

Daily Lenten Devotions: Tuesday, the Second Week of Lent Today's Saint : St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows For More Information about St. Gabriel and Today's Liturgy, go here . This Day in History 1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency . 1939 - American Civil Rights Movement : Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States . 1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem ) start to perform abortus provocatus . 1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota . 1991 - Gulf War : U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that " Kuwait is liberated." Births 272 - Constantine I , Roman emperor (d . 337 ) 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American poet (d. 1882 ) 1886 - Hugo Black , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d . 1971 ) 1891 - Anne Samson ...