Beautiful.
This couple refused to abort their conjoined twins despite heavy pressure from doctors.
Conjoined twins Rachel Clare and Maria Therese LeBlanc were diagnosed at 10 weeks gestation. Doctors indicated they would likely not survive long after birth because they shared several major organs, including their heart, liver, and bowels.
The two sweet girls were born on May 16 and lived for one precious hour.
“My girls were loved and held until their final moments, and all they knew throughout their lives was love from Austin and me.”
You will never regret giving a child the chance to live, regardless of their expected lifespan.
Life is always worth living.
I can promise you the solution to an unplanned pregnancy is not to pull a child apart limb by limb in an abortion.
An unplanned pregnancy is not solved by murdering a child.
🚨 JUST IN: The House has OVERWHELMINGLY passed a Trump-backed bill to RESTRICT companies like Blackrock from buying up single family homes
LONG overdue! 🔥
It’ll now head to the Senate, then to POTUS’ desk 🇺🇸
We have the technology to watch babies move around in their mother’s womb, we know they respond to pain, we know they recognize their mother’s voice.
If you are still denying the humanity of preborn children, you are willfully ignorant.
Saint Simon Stock was a 13th-century English Carmelite friar and saint, best known for his association with the Brown Scapular devotion. Born around 1165 in Kent, England, he reportedly lived as a hermit before joining the Carmelite Order, which was transitioning from a hermit-based community in the Holy Land to a mendicant order in Europe. He served as the prior general of the Carmelites from around 1247 until his death in 1265.
According to tradition, on July 16, 1251, the Virgin Mary appeared to Simon in Cambridge, England, and presented him with the Brown Scapular, promising that those who wear it with devotion would receive spiritual protection and grace. This vision became central to Carmelite spirituality and the widespread devotion to the Brown Scapular among Catholics.
Simon was known for his piety, leadership in reforming the Carmelite Order, and efforts to establish it in Europe, particularly in England, France, and Ireland. He died in Bordeaux, France, on May 16, 1265, and his feast day is celebrated on May 16.
This fight is not over. The Supreme Court’s order keeps the mail order abortion pill regime in place while litigation continues, but the underlying case now moves forward.
These drugs are being shipped across state lines to kill preborn children, even into states that have acted to protect life. The abortion industry is trying to use mail order pills to erase Dobbs and override pro-life laws nationwide.
The current federal law known as the Comstock Act already prohibits mailing abortion drugs. It should be enforced because no abortion business has a right to ship death through the mail and no state should be forced to watch its pro-life laws nullified by out-of-state abortionists.
The FDA must also act. The abortion pill must be pulled from the market.
Let us pray one Hail Mary and entrust all unborn babies, and all those considering abortion, to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the unborn.
Please comment “Amen” as a response.
Please pray for St Peter’s and for me. This new life in my priesthood is a big change, and I am going to miss St Peter’s a LOT. They taught me how to love being a Pastor.
Fr. Josh Wilbur, a Catholic priest serving in Connecticut, is asking for a living liver donor as he awaits a life-saving transplant due to end-stage liver disease caused by a rare autoimmune condition
The Vatican’s declaration that Anglican orders are null and void stems from the apostolic letter Apostolicae Curae, issued by Pope Leo XIII on September 13, 1896. This document represents the culmination of literally centuries of Catholic assessment of changes introduced during the English Reformation, particularly under Edward VI. The judgment rests on fundamental sacramental theology concerning the transmission of Holy Orders.
According to Catholic teaching, the sacrament of Holy Orders, as all sacraments, requires a valid form, proper matter, and sufficient ministerial intention. The form consists of words and actions that adequately signify the grace conferred, while intention must align with the Church’s purpose of ordaining ministers who share in Christ’s eternal priesthood, especially in offering the Eucharistic sacrifice. Leo XIII concluded that the Edwardine Ordinal of 1550 and 1552, which supplanted the traditional Catholic rites in England, failed these criteria.
The primary defect was in the form of the rite. The Edwardine ordinal omitted explicit references to the sacrificial character of the priesthood that the Catholic Church regards as essential. Instead of invoking the power to offer sacrifice for the living and the dead, as present in the Roman Pontifical, the Anglican texts emphasized preaching, teaching, and pastoral oversight, consistent with the Protestant theology of ministry. Such language, in the Pope’s view, did not sufficiently signify or effect the conferral of the sacerdotal order instituted by Christ. Precedents from earlier popes, including Julius III and Paul IV during the reign of Queen Mary I, had already treated ordinations performed according to this new rite as invalid, establishing a consistent practice over three centuries.
A related defect of intention compounded the issue. The reformers, led by figures such as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, deliberately crafted the ordinal to reflect a theology of ministry distinct from the Catholic understanding of a sacrificing priesthood. This intention, manifested in the alterations to the rite itself, indicated an aim not to continue the apostolic succession in its traditional sense but to institute a new ecclesiastical order. Even if the ordaining bishops possessed valid orders from prior Catholic lines, the broken transmission of sacramental power rendered subsequent Anglican ordinations null. Leo XIII affirmed that this rupture had persisted without restoration.
The declaration was not an innovation but a formal confirmation of longstanding Roman conviction. It responded to contemporary appeals for recognition of Anglican orders amid growing ecumenical interest. By pronouncing the ordinations “absolutely null and utterly void,” the Holy See maintained the integrity of Catholic sacramental doctrine while closing the door to mutual recognition of ministries. Subsequent Catholic teaching has upheld this position, though dialogue with the Anglican Communion has continued on broader questions of unity, which are becoming more illusive as the Anglican Communion strays further from orthodox doctrine. Apostolicae Curae underscores the Catholic Church’s view that apostolic succession demands continuity not only in lineage but also in the faithful preservation of sacramental form and intent.