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‘You Are Not Really Gay’
BY Karen Walker Dr. Joseph Nicolosi challenges the notion that homosexuality is genetic-and has the results to prove it
December 7-13, 1997 Issue 
Joseph Nicolosi Ph.D. is the founder and clinical director of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic, which is devoted primarily to the treatment of homosexuals. He is also the executive director of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).
Nicolosi received... READ MORE
Inside the Mind of an Abortion Provider
BY Brian Caulfield A New York City conference offers a glance at the thinking-or lack thereof- of doctors and nurses formerly involved in the practice
November 30-December 6, 1997 Issue
NEW YORK—In a talk that bordered on begging sympathy for the devil, a former abortion nurse Joan Appleton told a gathering of New York City pro-life activists to “adopt” abortionists in an attempt to bring about their conversion through prayer, correspondence, and friendship.
The main reason... READ MORE
In Death, a Teenager Looks Beyond Her Own Suffering
BY Karen Walker As she lay dying after a tragic hiking accident, Angela Baird's ability to draw on her faith left a lasting impression on those around her
November 30-December 6, 1997 Issue
Nineteen-year-old Angela Baird died Nov. 6 after a tragic hiking accident, barely two months into her sophomore year at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.
On the surface, there might seem to be little extraordinary about her death other than that her family and friends will dearly miss... READ MORE
Canada’s Law of the Land: Unborn Children Are Non-Persons
BY Raymond DeSouza A recent Supreme Court ruling solidifies the country's ultra-permissive abortion-on-demand policy
November 23-29,1997 Issue
OTTAWA, Canada—The Canadian Supreme Court's most recent decision regarding the legal status of unborn children, handed down late last month, was disappointing to pro-life advocates. But it wasn't surprising—Canadian defenders of the right to life have come to expect disappointments from their... READ MORE
‘Science Without Conscience’
BY Karen Walker
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Donum Vitae, a Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith document, explores the morality of every currently possible procedure for human procreation. In this carefully crafted instruction the document bases an evaluation of in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and other technical,... READ MORE
Made in a Brave New World
BY karen Walker The strange case of two-year-old Jaycee Buzzanca shows how complicated things can get when human life is treated as a product
November 23-29,1997 Issue
LOS ANGELES—A bizarre courtroom decision in Orange County, Calif., has left two-year-old Jaycee Buzzanca without legal parents.
Two years ago Jaycee's would be parents, John and Luanne Buzzanca, unable to conceive a child and frustrated with adoption attempts that fell through at the last minute,... READ MORE
‘What I Saw that Day Shouldn’t Be Allowed in this Country’
BY Tracy Moran
November 16-22, 1997 Issue
Why ob-gyn nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer changed her mind about ‘a woman's right to choose’
Brenda Pratt Shafer stood in the delivery room as her first grandchild was born last summer, overcome with joy.
But at the baby's birth, “it all came flooding back,” she says of the haunting three days in... READ MORE
‘What I Saw that Day Shouldn’t Be Allowed in this Country’
BY Tracy Moran
November 16-22, 1997 Issue
Why ob-gyn nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer changed her mind about ‘a woman's right to choose’
Brenda Pratt Shafer stood in the delivery room as her first grandchild was born last summer, overcome with joy.
But at the baby's birth, “it all came flooding back,” she says of the haunting three days in... READ MORE
Behind Bars and Pregnant
BY Tracy Moran A San Diego woman helps mothers-to-be serving prison sentences choose life
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
CATHERINE LYTLE and Maria Reyes each discovered they were pregnant shortly before they were incarcerated—not so unusual, given that, nationwide, one in 16 women entering prison is pregnant.
Lytle considered adoption; Reyes sought an abortion. Thanks to Kathy Morrissy and her seven-year-old San... READ MORE
Holy Communion Perfects our Commitment to Christ
BY John Cameron Op This Sunday at Mass: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 24-30, 1997 Issue
TODAY's FINAL Gospel meditation on the bread of life discourse focuses in a special way on the bread of life as communion. Ironically, this truth is brought into relief at first by the discord and disharmony sparked by the declaration of Jesus: “If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and... READ MORE
‘Muscle, Magic, and Message’
BY Jim Graves Covenant Warriors Serve up a Potent Mix for Evangelizing Teens
August 24-30, 1997 Issue
IN 1979, weight lifter and Oral Roberts University graduate John Jacobs launched a spirited new approach to Protestant evangelization: the Power Team. He and other weight-lifter preachers would perform circus-style feats of strength, pausing between stunts to preach a simple message of salvation... READ MORE
Finding New Life in the Resurrection
BY Kevin Sherlock This Sunday at Mass: Second Sunday of Easter
April 06, 1997 Issue
THE APPEARANCE OF the Risen Jesus to the disciples today reveals the praxis for living the new life of the Resurrection.
It begins with getting rid of fear. The darkness of the evening and the locked doors of the place both highlight the degree to which the disciples’ lives are enshrouded by fear.... READ MORE
The Blood and Guts of Abortion
BY Kevin Sherlock
April 06, 1997 Issue
Victims of Choice
(Akron, Ohio:Brennyman Books, 1996, 196 pp., $19.95)
VICTIMS OF CHOICE is a compilation of accounts of
women and girls who died, were maimed or otherwise traumatized by abortion. Author Kevin Sherlock cites court records, civil case records, newspaper clippings, medical journal... READ MORE
Eternal Day of Resurrection
BY Peter Johin Cameron Op Next Sunday at Mass: Easter
March 23-29, 1997 Issue
March 30, 1997 John 20, 1–9
JESUS CHRIST is risen from the dead! The power of the Resurrection imparts new life to us-life that is new in every way. Easter does not signal a return to business as usual, resuming the life to which we had become accustomed before the penitence of Lent. No, the... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass: Passion Sunday
BY PETER JOHN CAMERON OP Toward the Splendor of New Life
March 16-22, 1997 Issue
March 23, 1997 Mark 14, 1–15, 47
ON THIS PASSION SUNDAY, as the world focuses on the death of Jesus Christ, the Evangelist Mark's Passion narrative helps focus our meditation. The central question that this Gospel—and this day—asks of every believer is: “How do I respond to the death of Jesus... READ MORE
The Downside of Artificial Contraception-Anthropologically
BY David Liptak
March 16-22, 1997 Issue
JOHN PAUL II's apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, signed Nov. 22, 1981, discusses the difference—both moral and anthropological—between artificial contraception and periodic continence by recourse to the rhythm of the woman's cycle. The difference, which even some theologians... READ MORE
Did You Know?
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
As Congressmen promote legislation on Capitol Hill endorsing euthanasia (see Lifenotes), it is important to put the problems of the aging in perspective. In Evangelium Vitae Pope John Paul II speaks on the value of suffering.
Threats which are no less serious hang over the incurably ill and the... READ MORE
End-of-Life-Care Looms As Issue in Congress
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
WASHINGTON—Congress is expected to debate whether or not to block Oregon's assisted-suicide law again this year, but the discussions have opened with emphasis on related issues — pain management and end-of-life care.
The aim, said pro-assisted suicide Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is to change the terms of... READ MORE
ProLife ProFile: Fertility Program Brings Hope in Ireland
BY Cian Molloy
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
GALWAY, Ireland—For couples unable to conceive a child, Dr. Phil Boyle is a godsend.
He uses a method, developed with other Catholic physicians, to overcome infertility that is consistent with Church teaching and is a bona fide scientific breakthrough.
“We had completely given up hope, but when I... READ MORE
The Gospel Of Life
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
As Congressmen promote legislation on Capitol Hill endorsing euthanasia (see story below), it is important to put the problems of the aging in perspective. In Evangelium Vitae Pope John Paul II speaks on the value of suffering.
Threats which are no less serious hang over the incurably ill and the... READ MORE
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