Catholic Fire

Following his conviction for the murder of three babies born alive, abortionist Kermit Gosnell was sentenced Tuesday to two life sentences without parole for two of those murder charges. By agreeing not to appeal his conviction, Gosnell was able to avoid the death penalty for three convictions of first-degree murder. Read the full story.

“Some abortionists may have cleaner sheets than Gosnell, and better sterilized equipment and better trained accomplices, but what they do – what Gosnell did – kill babies and hurt women – is the same." Representative Chris Smith, (R–N.J.) Source

The Kermit Gosnell murder trial verdict is now in . Gosnell has been convicted of murder in the first degree of three babies who were born alive. He could face the death penalty for murder charges. I have been praying for justice in this trial and it is no surprise to me that this verdict was made on the anniversary of the first apparition of Fatima. Thank you, dear Mother Mary, for your intercession. I believe that something good is about to come out of the horrifically evil situation. We need to continue praying and acting in a Christian-like manner, not with angry words but with prayers of thanksgiving that the truth has been revealed in this case and that justice has been done. We need to continue to pray with all our hearts for those who are enslaved in the culture of death and who are deceived by the evil one into thinking that killing babies is something good. We need to continue to perform acts of penance and reparation and to fast for an end to the murder of the innocent....

Steven Crowder interviewed Americans on the street to see if they knew who Gosnell is or why he is on trial: H/T: Jill Stanek

Here is what Archbishop Chaput had to say in his latest column in the Catholic Philly  about the murder trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who practiced in Philadelphia: Some stories, no matter how unsettling, just can’t be ignored — even when some people are determined to look away. The murder trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell will soon go to jury. And like every other criminally accused person under the law, Gosnell is innocent until proven guilty. Whatever the verdict though, there’s no ambiguity about the kind of business he ran at his West Philadelphia “Women’s Medical Center” ­— an abortion clinic that critics have likened to a meatpacking plant or a butcher shop, with unborn children delivered into a toilet, and jars of fetal body parts stored around the facility. Dr. Gosnell was originally charged with one count of infanticide and five counts of “abuse of corpse” for killing fetuses born alive by plunging scissors into their n...