My Pro-Life Life

           I, alas, won't be able to go on the March for Life this year. However, I would like to share with you a fundraiser by the group I went with in 2018, the Institute of Christ the King. Dear Friends, For the fourth year in a row, the priests of the  Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest   will be leading a group of courageous pilgrims to the  March for Life in Washington D.C.   this January, 2020. We have a tremendous opportunity this year to fill two buses of young pilgrims from the Institute's parishes. Young people from all over the Midwest will march and pray together. More than  just a March, the Institute leads our trip in the spirit of a true pilgrimage, offering our young adults opportunities to pray, to make sacrifices, and to learn about the mystery of the unborn through masses, rosaries, conferences etc. As we witness an up-rise of the power of darkness against the most precious and more vulnerable gift man could ever receive, lif

            The latest in my nursing school news.      I started classes at the beginning of September. First was Anatomy and Physiology, which was done at the end of September. We then began Basic Nursing, part of which includes ethics, legal aspects and culture/religion.      When we were on the subject of ethics, I brought up the question of refusing to do something that would violate one's conscience. Specifically, I wanted to know if there would be any legal repercussions if I, as a student nurse, refused to do something at a clinical. My specific example was birth control, the only pertinent one for the context.      It boiled down to, no, nothing would happen if I was asked to do something that I wasn't comfortable doing (such as distribute birth control) and refused to do it. It is, of course, more than a matter of comfort, but I didn't press the issue; there was no need.      Last week, we came to a topic I very much enjoy: cultural and spiritual aspect