Catholic Fire

The Inglis House Poetry Contest is an annual contest that begins each year on April 1 and runs until June 1. The purpose of the contest is to raise awareness of writing about disability and to help promote the work of writers with disabilities. It is also to contribute to the building of a core of disability literature through the genre of poetry. The guidelines for the Sixth Annual Contest can be found here. The contest deadline is June 1, 2008.

Bishop says continued attacks on human life will lead to self-destruction Abuja, Jan 25, 2007 / 11:59 am ( CNA ).- The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Bishop Elio Sgreccia, denounced this week the different attacks on human life in all its stages, saying mankind is “marching towards a self-genocide of the human race.” “The weakness of the Christian community and the strength of secular society could spell disaster,” Bishop Sgreccia warned, and he urged all European citizens to work at reversing the trend. “Up to now the culture of death has been accepted and this path leads to self-destruction.” He also noted the “widespread mentality that trusts in bio-technological power.” Such powers, Sgreccia said aim “to change the order of the human species” and to create “men in the image and likeness of other men who have power.” Society is embracing this mentality and, “it now defends the selecting of children so that each one is perfect, without defect, and the eliminating of t...