Letter #22, 2021, Thursday, April 29: Orthodox Easter Letter #22, 2021, Thursday, April 29: Orthodox Easter
The Orthodox world celebrates Easter this year on
Sunday,
May 2, in three days. We wish a blessed, holy Easter to all, and include here below reflections on the meaning and importance of Easter.
As the Orthodox Easter draws near, in the light of Christian faith, in the light of the proclamation of the Resurrection, it seems important to make one point, as follows:
The modern, increasingly popular, ever more accepted “scientific” and “humanistic” vision of human life and its meaning tends to look “beyond” human beings as we are now, beyond
American Life League proudly supports herd immunity study
By
April 28, 2021
American Life League is honored to announce that we are providing grant funding to support a research study at Franciscan University of Steubenville that will determine the extent to which the campus has reached herd immunity. The project, led by biology professor Dr. Kyle McKenna, will evaluate immune responses to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus utilizing testing procedures that specifically do not use materials produced in cell lines derived from aborted children.
In March, Dr. McKenna and his students, in conjunction with the schools nursing program, began drawing blood from over 300 students, faculty, and staff on campus. McKenna indicated that immune responses in the student population are particularly interesting because this age group has only recently been eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Correspondingly, immune responses in this population are primarily through natural exposure to coronavirus
04/25/2021 at 9:40 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Catholic News Service, April 14, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities has launched a campaign urging Catholics to write letters to pharmaceutical companies urging them to stop the use of abortion-derived cell lines in the development and testing of vaccines.
Among the companies singled out are Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson for their COVID-19 vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline for its Shingrix shingle vaccine, and Merck for its MMR, Chickenpox, and Hepatitis-A vaccines.
The secretariat provides sample letters on the USCCB website. The letters include the names of top officials and the address for each company.
Nuns and others wait in line to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, April 12, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez )
When my husband and I adopted our daughter from China, one of the immigration requirements was that she receive a number of vaccines before entry into the United States. Because her earlier vaccination documentation was unclear, she had to be re-vaccinated, receiving six shots in one day: Each limb got one jab, and one arm and one leg got two.
She was not happy about all those needle-sticks, and as a new mother, it was hard for me to listen to her screaming. But we did it.
Pressure Intensifies on Catholic Church to Change Teaching That Homosexuality Is ‘Intrinsically Disordered’ 04/20/2021 at 4:53 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
According to analysts, the continuing push to remove this phrasing from the Catechism of the Catholic Church is rooted in a broader campaign to legitimize homosexual acts.
By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, April 20, 2021
VATICAN CITY Pressure continues to be exerted on Church leaders to remove the language of Catholic teaching that states that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” and “under no circumstances can be approved” pressure that critics believe is part of an effort by some groups and individuals to normalize the sinful behavior within the Church.