Tract: The Death Cookie Claim: The Eucharist or Holy Communion is a death cookie. The Big Question: Is that true? Let’s find out. In this tract as in all his other gospel tracts, Jack Chick begins his anti-Catholic propaganda with,…
Tract: The Death Cookie Claim: The Eucharist or Holy Communion is a death cookie. The Big Question: Is that true? Let’s find out. In this tract as in all his other gospel tracts, Jack Chick begins his anti-Catholic propaganda with,…
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 14,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this…
Many people are wondering why Catholics hold those beads called the Rosary in their hands and what’s the real inspiration behind them. In this little booklet I’ll attempt to give quick answers to some of the questions and doubts often…
Down to the end of the eighteenth century, very little attention was given to the relation between increase of population and increase of subsistence. Plato (De republica, V) and Aristotle (De republica, II, vi) maintained, indeed, that in a communistic…
Child-murder; the killing of an infant before or after birth. According to the French Criminal Code the word is limited to the murder of the new-born infant. In English it has been used for the deprivation of life from the…
Definition. The expulsion of the human ovum occurring during the first three months of pregnancy, and occurring from any cause whatsoever, is called abortion. In the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh months — i.e., from the formation of the placenta…
Abortion (from the Latin word aboriri, “to perish”) may be briefly defined as “the loss of a fetal life.” In it the fetus dies while yet within the generative organs of the mother, or it is ejected or extracted from…
The word relics comes from the Latin reliquiae (the counterpart of the Greek leipsana) which already before the propagation of Christianity was used in its modern sense, viz., of some object, notably part of the body or clothes, remaining as…
