Guest Author:  Dr. Francis Joel Smith Featured image above:  Fr. David Nix, Dr. Francis Joel Smith, Mr. Michael Alarcon (pausing from prayer outside Denver's Planned Parenthood.) Early life, including birth defects and challenges with other kids growing up I was born with Treacher Collins syndrome. That means, due to a genetic mutation, I was born without the bones that make up the ears, cheekbones, and eye sockets, as well as severe deformities of both jaws and a gaping cleft palate. Without ears, I have never been able to hear without special bone-conduction hearing aids. My jaw deformities have always made it difficult to breathe, speak, bite, chew, and swallow food. [...]

Red Rose Rescue (with whom I've been arrested twice for peaceful counseling inside an abortion center) has some important news. Usually our jail time is only a short time.  But my friends Fr. Fidelis, Will and Matt (see above) just got 90 days in jail in New York for a rescue this summer.  Fr. Fidelis and I discussed this on the phone for awhile just a few weeks ago.  Now he's in jail for three months.  Red Rose Rescue reports: Father Fidelis, Will Goodman, and Matthew Connolly have all been sentenced to 90 days in jail. They were given a $200 surcharge, a $500 fine, and a $50 DNA charge...Quotes [...]

As we approach the first week of August 2022, it is now about two years after the initial COVID "vaccine trials" of 2020 and exactly 18 months after AJMC reported on their timeline that on 1 Feb 2021 "more Americans [were] vaccinated than infected with COVID-19."  We must now ask:  What have been the effects of the injection upon Western populations?  LifeSite News has an extensive report here, but I'm going to highlight a few of the stats that I believe to be the most important after my time in medicine. All-Cause Mortality Because of the misreporting on the cause of death by hospitals and clinicians over the past two [...]

As Louisiana closes abortion centers following the overturning of Roe Vs Wade by giving certain abortion decisions to the states, the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops recently stated they will allow abortifacient medicines to be given in Catholic hospitals to victims of sexual-assault.  In a secular journal called The Advocate, there is a new article titled What does Louisiana's abortion ban mean for Plan B as a lifeline for rape victims?  In that article, the secular author rightly names "emergency contraception" as this: "Emergency contraception is the proper term for what often is called Plan B or the morning-after pill."  It adds: "The pills can prevent or delay the release of [...]