By Barry Forbes

America will soon bridge the new millennium encumbered with a tragedy of almost unthinkable proportions. Since 1973's Roe vs. Wade, more than 38 million unborn children have been trashed, a slaughter without historical precedent. Generations from now, people will ponder how humankind could kill so many, so often, for so little.

One wonders, where are the Christians?

Christians, it turns out, are spiritual cowards. Worse, we are led by spiritual cowards who wouldn't be caught dead praying on a sidewalk, and who are seemingly blind to one of the greatest moral battles of all time. (Sorry, lip service doesn't count.) We deserve each other because we've abandoned 38 million unborn children en masse to the likes of Planned Parenthood, and we refuse to recognize our own culpability.  For more, click...

By Katherine Sabelko

In a lengthy article, Terminator, June 17, by Ann Silverman in Phoenix New Times, a third-rate rag newspaper, published in Phoenix, Arizona, Brian Finkel showed his normal, hate-filled personality. His language, actions and his prized possessions depict a dangerous personality.

His hatred for people shows in the statement about his own parents, saying, "I won't take it. From anybody. Not from the ejaculator who inseminated the cow that birthed me, to any one of those dysfunctional, hate-filled religionists that I'm forced to interact with."

He proudly displays a nude painting of a teenage girl, "quite young" as the author of the article describes her, while referring to Filipinos and Hispanics in racist terms.  For more, click...

By Fr. Frank Pavone

"I've been pro-life from day one. I don't believe in abortion — it's against my wishes. I never wanted an abortion and never went for one."

Believe it or not, those are words spoken by the plaintiff in one of the two companion abortion decisions of the United States Supreme Court which legalized abortion throughout the 50 states and throughout pregnancy.  For more, click...

By Mike Richmond

If one of every 50 full-term births resulted in a punctured uterus, pro-choicers would have a field day denouncing the dangers of motherhood. But since it is induced abortion (vacuum aspiration) that has the 1-in-50 risk of a punctured uterus, little is heard from the pro-choicers. From whence comes the 1-in-50 risk estimate?

Abortionists Drs. Steven Kaali, George Bartfai, and Ivan Szigetvari in an August 1989 article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. But since other studies have reported lower estimates for uterine perforation rates, why highlight the Kaali report? In the Kaali study the doctors could actually see (via "direct laparoscopic visualization") the punctures.

"Our data suggest that the true incidence of uterine perforation is significantly underestimated..."

What walked into Columbine High School Tuesday [April 20] was the culture of death. That is the Pope's phrase: it is how he describes the world we live in....Most of the children who wind up getting in terrible trouble and wind up with guns in their hands don't have anyone to counter the culture...So we think our children will be O.K. But they have never had a normal culture against which to balance the newer, slicker one. They have no reference points to the old, boring normality.

-- The Wall Street Journal, April 22, The Culture of Death, by Peggy Noonan

• ! Giving a gift subscription of the Cor Newsletter to a friend.
• ! Attending a weekly rosary at an abortuary.
• ! Starting a pro-life rosary at your parish one evening a month.
• ! Checking to see if your parish, church group or favorite store would like to sign up as a sponsor for CoR Newsletter.
• ! Using Lifeline [see page 2] for your long distance phone charges.
• ! Using the envelope provided to send in your donation.
• ! Having pro-life messages in your Church bulletin each week.
• ! Praying the rosary every day for that child who is in danger of an abortion

On pg. 10 of your May newsletter a reader takes you to task for opposing this award, on the grounds that Mr. Basha has done many acts of kindness.

I got the identical reaction from the head of our local St. Vincent de Paul, a wonderful gentleman who, along with his dedicated wife, has contributed thousands of hours serving the poor. My response: even a whole lifetime of kindnesses cannot begin to equal the importance of a single infant whose life is taken through abortion: End of conversation!  For more, click...

I couldn't help but notice that The Catholic Sun newspaper in Phoenix chooses to advertise Basha's supermarket, who we all know is owned by the Pro-Choice, Eddie Basha. I called up The Catholic Sun to voice my protest. They felt justified in advertising him since they have done so for the past 14 years, (completely ignoring the fact of his pro-choice position). First St. Vincent De Paul, now The Catholic Sun newspaper. It is crystal clear the statement the church is making in regards to who and what they support.

Pat Veit
Phoenix, AZ

Thank you for your newsletter. The material on Eddie (and Mrs.) Basha and the St. Vincent de Paul Society was extremely interesting.

However, you may be missing what might be the biggest story of all:
The 1999 National (annual) Meeting of the Society will be in Orange County CA (Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach) on Sept. 8 to 12. Featured speaker is Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J. (Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille), a major opponent of the death penalty and author of Dead Man Walking. She is also a member of Amnesty International.  For more, click...

I have for many years worked at St. Vincent de Paul dining room as well as the Ask Women's Center and have participated in the weekly rosaries at Planned Parenthood.

In our April 1999 issue of the Children of the Rosary Newsgram the letter by Katherine Sabelko to Bishop Thomas O'Brien was printed but his response, if any, was not. Would it be possible to send me a copy of his response and, perhaps, also publish it in the next issue?  For more, click...

I was sad to read that Bishop Thomas O'Brien did not even have the decency to reply to your letter of concern about St. Vincent de Paul honoring Basha, a known supporter of homosexuality and abortion.

No wonder Our Lord warns us that the rich man has difficulty gaining heaven. We are not asking Basha or the Bishop to go through the eye of the needle. They aren't asked to give up all their worldly possessions - just not ignore or support the abortion issue.  For more, click...

A quick note to say "Hi" from Connecticut and to share our newsletter. Our May 8th vigil was inspiring and prayerful.

My husband suggested that I send our newsletter and encouragement for you and your ministry. You were the people who impressed us with your love and concern for the unborn and the tidal wave of family devastation (of values and importance).  For more, click...

By Paul deParrie

Larry Donlan was amazed and not surprised when he heard it. Still, Donlan never thought he would be picketing against an abortionist at a church. Yet, on February 23, here he was in Lincoln, Nebraska. After years in the pro-life movement, Donlan, director of Rescue the Heartland, just shook his head when he first learned that the notorious abortionist, Winston Crabb, not only openly attended a local church, but was counted among their leadership, as a deacon.

The church was Westminster Presbyterian Church at 2110 Sheridan in Lincoln, Nebraska. Westminster is a part of the Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination. Committed to dealing with the issue according to Scripture, Donlan and others first spoke to Crabb individually, then with witnesses present, as prescribed in Matthew 18.  For more, click...

Some U.N. agencies condition their aid to victims of hurricane 'Mitch' by imposing birth-control plans. This determined policy of U.N. agencies was made official during the meeting, which concludes today in Stockholm, of the Consultative Group for the Reconstruction of Central America, led by the Inter-American Development Bank, and including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

According to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the Reconstruction Group was created last December to launch an international fund-raising campaign for humanitarian aid to the peoples of Central America affected by last October's hurricane 'Mitch.'

The donor countries have guaranteed the Stockholm meeting $6.2 billion but, in exchange, request from the interested governments certain commitments, salient among which are programs for birth control.

By Joseph Collison

On a recent afternoon I was working at Caring Families, a crisis pregnancy center in my town, when I noticed a young woman walking back and forth in front of our window. Soon I heard a tap on the door. The young woman stepped in timidly, shut the door, tried to smile, and began to cry. 'I'm in trouble," she said. "I'm pregnant."

I'm not a counselor, and none was present, but I offered to make an appointment with a counselor for the following day. She began to cry again. She had no money, the needle on her gas gauge was on empty, and she had no food in the apartment. We talked awhile; I gave her gas money, made up a box of food, and told her to come back for her appointment.

The young woman came back to Caring Families and talked with a counselor, who gave her what help she needed and made what arrangements were necessary. Later the counselor told me that the woman was surprised to learn that Caring Families is a Christian agency. "I didn't know Christians would help me," she told the counselor. "I thought they were all mean."

I was startled. How could she believe that all Christians are "mean"? But on second thought, why should young people believe otherwise when their textbooks give them a twisted version of history, and every day they see religious belief mocked and ridiculed on television sitcoms and news shows?  For more, click...