At the March 1st Pro Vita Seminar, Pope John Paul II reminded members of the International Right-To-Life Federation to “be transformed by the renewal of your mind” in contesting against the current anti-life mentality. * * * * Dear Friends: I am pleased to welcome you to the Vatican as participants in the seminar sponsored by the International Right-To-Life Federation. You have [...]
Recently Pope John Paul II and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) expressed support for the pro-life movement. The statements are presented here side by side, readers may want to compare them. The CCCB statement expresses the desire to emphasize the love needed to promote respect for life. Without mentioning the pro-life movement by name, it recognizes its three-fold division of [...]
Steven Mosher was the first Western anthropologist ever permitted to live for a year in a Chinese village to study rural life. After leaving China, he published a series of articles and two books (Broken Earth and Journey to the Forbidden China) exposing the government’s policy of forced abortion, infanticide and sterilization, euphemistically known as “voluntary family planning.” At the time he [...]
Steven Mosher was one of the first American scholars allowed to study in China when the U.S. government established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic in 1979. He was the only academic permitted to live in a Southern China village for a year to study the lives of the rural Chinese. His discoveries and observations are published below, taken from an edited [...]