743 - Peace & Life: Peace & Life: Hope & Horror / Hegseth Pro-War -October 10, 2025
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- Oct 10
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January 22: Day of Horror and Hope
January 22, 1973 is well-known to pro-lifers as the day the shocking Roe v. Wade decision came down. While there’s hope because it’s been overturned, we’re still recuperating from the damage and have much work to do.
But January 22 now has another meaning, one of great hope: In 2021, it became the day the U.N. Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons officially went into effect.
This is a prime opportunity for consistent lifers, and in 2026 we’re taking full advantage of it. CLN is a major part of the planning committee. See the website:
It includes an impressive list of supporters. This will be a day to focus on the connections of opposing abortion and nuclear weapons, both being forms of promoting mass murder.
We’re still looking for more organizational supporters; see details on the website.
We’d like people to start thinking about having events that day – teach-ins, webinars, protests, anything that fits local circumstances. There’s a spot on the website to put your local action on the map.
Distressingly Pro-War
Pete Hegseth recently gave military leaders his view of the difference between "war" and "defense" - in favor of open war. Initially he said war is done "sparingly" as opposed to the "overreach and mission creep" of "defense," but added that in war "we unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy." He disparaged the concept of "rules of engagement" in war, calling them "stupid" and calling instead for "maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.”
While members of the US military sometimes fail to follow either its own or international standards, it's generally been the norm to make some pretense of following rules. Now the head of the US military has called for it to reject any pretense of rules and openly commit atrocities.
The Latest on the Blog
In another installment of how the documentation of problems at Planned Parenthood can lead to so many posts and articles about specific incidents, Sarah Terzo offers:
The documentation is on the website Problems at Planned Parenthood. We encourage people to look at the site to see what stories strike you, and make similar posts and articles to spread the word.
Quote of the Week
Note: This was in response to Senator Dick Durbin receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from a Catholic group. Although the award was for Durbin's advocacy for the human dignity of immigrants, it caused an uproar because of his strong pro-abortion policy position. Durbin ended up turning down the award because of the controversy.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki
The Pillar, September 22, 2025
So I think [Bernadin’s] emphasis on the “consistent ethic” was precisely what the phrase implies — we have to be consistent, and that you can't say, “well, I'm pro-life on 9 out of 10 issues, I just disagree with the Church on the abortion issue, but I'm still pro-life, I'm still consistent.”
I think Cardinal Bernardin’s answer to that would have been: “No, you can’t say that you’re pro-life if you’re not consistent across the board.”
Cardinal Berndardin didn't like it when people would use the consistent ethic to try to argue that you can downplay the abortion issue as long as you're promoting other social justice issues . . .
I would say that's comparable to saying that someone is a good Catholic who follows 9 out of the 10 Commandments except for the one that says “Thou shalt not kill.”
