Wishing you A Blessed Triduum
In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Red Dragon Rising
- The Conversion Story
- Abp. Wester Objects
- PRI in Peru
- Deepening Depopulation
- Majority Focus on Expense
- Communist China
- A Propaganda Seminar
- UN Misdeeds
- Ipas Goes After Africa
- Science Gone Mad
- No Known Harm
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Hijacking Mothers Day
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- The Abortion Pill Case
- WaPo Bashes Women
- Good News
- In My Shoes
PRI in the Media
Red Dragon Rising: PRI President Steven Mosher joined Kennedy Hall on The Kennedy Report to discuss his newly released book, The Devil and Communist China. The book lays bare the sheer evil of this hateful political system that has enslaved one-seventh of the world’s population, and wishes to enslave the rest. It highlights the complete opposition of Communism’s darkness with the light and truth of Christianity.
The interview received a touching first comment, which Mr. Mosher appreciated greatly and asked that it be shared here.
“I used to listen to Steven Mosher on Ave Maria Radio in Michigan when I was a newlywed (25 years ago) he convinced me we needed to give our child planning to the Lord and we had thirteen. Thank you for your witness! God bless.”
Mr. Mosher has also done interviews regarding this newest book with John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews and Christine Niles of Stella Maris Media.
Get your copy of The Devil and Communist China today!
The Conversion Story: Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S. J., welcomed Marcus Grodi onto EWTN Live to discuss Grodi’s latest book, Guideposts for The Journey Home. This newly released book features spiritual testimonies from five key individuals who appeared on EWTN’s The Journey Home. Among these testimonies is that of PRI’s president, Mr. Mosher, who appeared on the show in 2005 to share his conversion story. Mr. Mosher’s conversion began during his time in China when he witnessed the brutality of the one-child policy firsthand.
In his own words, “If you confront evil like that, you either have to conclude the universe is mad, there’s no rhyme or reason to anything, or you have to conclude that there must be a countervailing good, there must be a God, there must be something to balance this evil. And I didn’t want to live in an insane asylum, and so I began to seek God.”
For the next two weeks, get your copy of Guideposts for The Journey Home here.
Abp. Wester Objects: Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, recently tried to silence the Population Research Institute (PRI) and the Lepanto Institute (LI). Archbishop Wester took offense to the collaborative report that PRI and LI released documenting and detailing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) promotion of abortion, contraception, and masturbation in three African countries. In a letter dated March 8, Archbishop Wester, who served as a two-term member of the board of directors for CRS, declared, “I can assure you that your findings on the ethical actions of CRS are in error.” Yet, Wester has also promoted heretical views on human sexuality and family life on many occasions since being named the ordinary of Santa Fe nine years ago. His letter did not address the clear evidence and moral analysis, provided by Dr. Christian Brugger, that PRI and LI provided. He, like CRS, issued only a blanket denial and then fell silent.
PRI in Peru: News of the victory in Peru and the involvement of PRI’s Latin American involvement has reached Live Action. On March 13th, the Peruvian Congress approved pro-life legislation by a vote of 87-18. The bill establishes the obligation of the state to guarantee “the protection of the pregnancy, the pregnant mother, the unborn child, and their family environment.” Citing the interview by ACI Prensa, Live Action quoted PRI’s Ibero-American Office Director, Carlos Polo in saying that the legislation represents “true progress in the agenda for respecting the life of the conceived child.” Mr. Polo went on to add that on March 25th, the Day of the Unborn Child in Peru, a significant celebration will be held to commemorate the achievement that “Congress established by law that the state protects both lives.”
Deepening Depopulation
Majority Focus on Expense: A new survey in South Korea found that a majority of young people see children as financial burdens. The point of the survey, conducted by the Korea Population Health and Welfare Association (KoPHWA), was to pinpoint the cause of the country’s falling fertility rate. In the fourth quarter of 2023, South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a quarterly low of 0.65. A total of 2,000 individuals between 20 and 44 were interviewed, 500 each of single men and women and 500 each of married men and women. Regardless of marital status, 96 percent of the respondents emphasized the high costs of raising children. According to the report, the total cost in Korea for child support until age 18 is 7.79 times higher than the per capita GDP.
“We are about to enter uncharted territory,” says Mr. Mosher. “as the population of some major countries, including China, are already in free fall. The economic shocks that this will generate will shake the world.”
Communist China
A Propaganda Seminar: On March 18th, a seminar titled “The Protection of Human Rights for Minorities: Progress in China’s Ethnic Autonomous Regions” was held during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. It was organized by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS). But the content of the talk raised red flags indicating the CCP’s influence on the organization. The seminar falsely portrayed Tibet, also called Xizang, and Xinjiang as “model regions where human rights are affirmed and protected thanks to the enlightened rule of the CCP.” The “CCP experts” even went on to say “that the People’s Republic of China has a long tradition of respecting and protecting the rights and interests of ethnic minorities.” This is the same CCP that abused its own women and children with the one-child policy? The same CCP that has imprisoned and abused ethnic minorities such as the Uyghurs and Falun Gong? There is too much evidence of the CCP’s past and current abuse to be dispelled by one propaganda-filled seminar.
UN Misdeeds
Ipas Goes After Africa: An organization, whose sole purpose is “to promote and provide abortion internationally,” has decided to target Africa. Ipas revealed these intentions at two Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) events in New York. Though Ipas has targeted the African continent before, as the main supplier of manual vacuum aspirators for abortions on the continent, their approach this time is new. The organization plans to push abortion by framing it as necessary for “disability rights.” Ipas wants to abort the babies of disabled women and claims that this is how they support the disabled community. Yet it won’t help disabled women keep or care for their babies before or after birth, instead it will only offer to kill the babies in their wombs.
Science Gone Mad
No Known Harm: Several well-respected researchers and pundits have claimed that surrogacy does not harm children. But in reality, we know very little about its long-term impact on a child’s psychological well-being. Many of those asserting the safety of surrogacy are relying on one longitudinal study called “Families Created Through Surrogacy.” Yet when looked at closely, that study “runs the risk of selection bias and non-representative outcomes.” As the Institute for Family Studies points out, “There is a huge difference between no harm and no known harm.” It is unlikely that the immoral process, which tampers with the natural order and severs the bond between a biological mother and her child at birth, has no negative side effects.
“I do not trust ‘the science’ on surrogacy, any more than I trust ‘the science’ that has led to the chemical and surgical castration of children,” says Mr. Mosher. “If there is a profit to be made–and there is with surrogacy–then there will always be ‘experts’ lining up to justify the practice for a percentage of the take.”
Pro-Life Around the World
Hijacking Mother’s Day: The largest abortion provider in the U.K. attempted to hijack Mother’s Day by encouraging supporters to “celebrate” those who end the lives of unborn children through abortion. For residents in the United Kingdom, Mother’s Day falls on March 10th. Over Mother’s Day weekend, while most people were celebrating the women who gave them life, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), published a post on X celebrating “Abortion Providers Appreciation Day.” The organization stated, “We want to celebrate all the amazing people providing safe abortions every single day. Join us in thanking them for supporting women who wish to end their own pregnancy.” It is despicable that on a day to celebrate mothers, the abortion organization chose to celebrate the individuals who actively work to end lives and ruin motherhood. According to its most recent annual report, from 2022 to 2023 BPAS was responsible for 110,719 abortions in England and Wales, up 19% from the previous year.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
The Abortion Pill Case: On March 26th, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments for the case that will decide the future of the abortion pill. Since the pandemic, the FDA has loosened restrictions on the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. According to one expert, “The telehealth policy, which the FDA temporarily implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic before making it permanent, is really ‘what opened the gate’ to the drug’s broader use.” This has directly contributed to the uptick in abortions. Last year, the total number of abortions in the U.S. surpassed 1 million for the first time in over a decade. Now, the Supreme Court justices will have the power to roll back the federal policies that allowed the easier distribution of the deadly drugs. They have the chance to protect vulnerable women and babies with their final decision.
WaPo Bashes Women: Popular media outlets are claiming that women’s negative experiences with birth control are “misinformation.” “Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion,” a Washington Post headline blared. The article’s author disapproved of the movement away from hormonal birth control, towards natural methods or abstinence, but failed to address the real reason why this is happening. It’s not just a social media trend. Women, some put on birth control at a very young age, have experienced the negative side effects of hormonal birth control firsthand. Many of them are sharing the reality of how those side effects changed their bodies and lives. Yet corporate media is throwing these women under the bus to back up contraceptives and the lucrative companies that sell them.
Good News
In My Shoes: Twelve years ago, Maria Puccini and some of her friends moved to Dallas, Texas, to start a maternity home for homeless, pregnant women. When they moved, the group knew no one and owned no property in Dallas. But God provides. Today, the maternity home In My Shoes, founded by Puccini and her friends in West Dallas near Bishop Arts, houses homeless pregnant and postpartum women and their babies. As of December 2023, it has been home to 87 mothers and babies. Puccini’s group builds face-to-face relationships with women who are facing some of the hardest moments of their lives.
Quote of the Week
“Trinitarian love is always generative and so therefore must true earthly marriage be. Children bring to marriage what many nowadays may think of as bitter because they add to physical burdens, but the love that children bring makes any hardships vanish like the morning mist.”
~ Fr. Patrick Pullicino, source
