Posted on 08/30/2013 11:47:16 AM PDT by NYer
Thanks for posting that. I started watching the clips of Debra’s (Patricia Heaton) interview. She’s so talented and really makes that show. She’s strongly pro-life as well.
Here it is:
Do it, you could get pregnant.
Do it, no abortion.
Do it, chance of STD.
Do it, get STD, might not be able to have babies when you DO want them.
Do it, you’re a loser and a fool.
I love Ally’s Question.
It is something that I still ponder myself at the age of 50.
Why are we here?
The answer is very simple and, if you think about it, quite obvious. And, no, it is not because heaven is overcrowded. Back in the 1950s, Catholic children learned their faith through the Baltimore Catechism. The answer for a child Ally's age is:
6. Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.
The "adult" Catechism states it in similar terms:
I. The life of man - to know and love God
1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
2 So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."4 Strengthened by this mission, the apostles "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it."5
3 Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.6
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
My observation (6 children so far through “tween” age) is that they are completely disgusted by the idea and would much rather discuss computer games.
Thank you for this.
Your answer is correct.
What is the next question?
PS. Read some of these heart-warming stories about girls who kept their babies!
Actually Planned Parenthood was allowed to teach sex ed in two of the local high schools. Typical Oregon, huh?
What is a tween?
Don,t worry about it, before they are even old enough to be asking those kind questions the teachers at preschool will already be required to teach them every thing they need to know, your children are in good hands.
I don,t know if my sister talked to our mother about such things but i would have died before i would have even mentioned such a thing to my mother, or even my dad unless i had a good reason which i never did.
Nothing surprises me on the left coast.
I would have never talked to my parents about anything. I have a much different relationship with my kids. Thank God!
I would have never talked to my parents about anything. I have a much different relationship with my kids. Thank God!
I would have never talked to my parents about anything. I have a much different relationship with my kids. Thank God!
I do not have any kids to raise and maybe it sounds rude but i thank God for that although i have at least a half dozen great grand children some of them just visited.
And the saying is that there has never been a child raised right in the history of the world.
We got our daughter a pretty good explanatory book from the library when she was about 10-11, and offered to take on any questions she had. It was actually pretty easy from that point forward.
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