My goodness, I said to myself, it is about time that I actually blogged about something totally and in every respect POSITIVE! I know you will agree, and so I want to introduce you to one of the most powerful pro-life apostolates in the entire world: the Sisters of Life.

Lately, there have been a few headlines that have stunned and grieved me. It is when these things come to my attention that I must muster certain level of optimism before I can begin to write about them or comment on the effect such tragic situations have on the culture and our pro-life work.

I found a study from the University of Michigan that detected a problem with misoprostol to be a bit curious.

Although each individual has a right to be respected in his own journey in search of the truth, there exists a prior moral obligation, and a grave one at that, to seek the truth and to adhere to it once it is known.

Over the last week, ever since The Chicago Tribune broke the news that the infamous pastor of St. Sabina’s in Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger, would be restored as pastor of that church, my e-mail has been flooded with messages from people who are terribly distressed.

The good news out of Australia this week is that stem cells harvested from the noses of Parkinson’s patients developed into dopamine-producing brain cells when transplanted into the brain of a lab rat.