The Conference in Cleveland

margaret Sanger was born Sept. 14 (feast of the Triumph of the Cross), 1879. She was the sixth of eleven children. Her mother was a devout Catholic, her father,Michael Higgens, an apostate and a self-styled "free thinker, who did more thinking than working to support his family. He was shunned for his radical views, and Margaret feared him greatly. She described her home life as "...joyless and filled with drudgery and fear." One day, her father overheard Margaret praying the Lord's Prayer. When she came to "...Give us this day our daily bread", her father said, "Is God a baker?" Margaret answered, "He gives us the rain, and the sunshine...which makes the wheat, and them the bread>' Unimpressed,he determined to squelch her budding relationship with God. Margaret was confirmed in secret, to avoid the wrath of Higgens. But his constant attacks on her Faith finally took it's toll; but the time she was 17, she embraced a great hatred for the Church, and spent the rest of her life doing her best to undermine it.
She attended The Hudson River Institute, where she was first exposed to the cauldren of radical and revolutionary thought; politics, radical feminism, and the push for unrestricted sex. She tried out several professions, including kindergarten teaching, which she eventually quit. Then she studied nursing (never finishing her schooling, though PP advertises her as a nursing professional). She found work and studying too difficule, being naturally lazy. She finally found her way out of the tedious business of working for a living; she married money.
William Sanger was attractive and charismatic. He courted her with single-minded devotion, and within but a few months, they were married. However, she found that homemaking was ALSO work, and boring work at that. They had 3 children, 2 boys and a girl; but "fufillment still eluded her.
William had had ties in radical movenents, and attended Socialist, anarchist and Communist meetings In nY's Greenwich Village. Margaret caught the infection and soon plunged herself into rebellion and revolution.

Washington D.C.

I gave my talk on being conceived in rape, plus the need to reform adoption laws, so that !>Birthmothers would be more receptive to choose adoption. By this I mean, unsealing the records, for the good of the mother AND the adoptee. This is the "third rail" of the pro-life movement. I was worried that I'd just get people angry. Instead I got a standing ovation. Plus, $400 for the talk. Then some people are putting together a documentary on the various aspects of the pro-life movement. They were particularly interested in my position on NEVER using religion to debate abortion. The facts speak for themselves. So they interviewed me for the documentary.
All in all it was a great march - 300,000 people, at least more than half of them young people!
This movement, with all it's flaws, will endure until we restore civil rights for all people, born and pre-born.

DC

I'm getting ready to go to DC on Monday to speak to a group at the March for Life. It will be a chronicle of my experience as an adoptee and a Child of Rape.
We're leaving Buffalo at 8pm tomorrow night. I sure hope I can sleep on the bus!
We'll see - I'll report on the talk and the March when I come back.

My Daughter's miraculous conversion

My Daughter's miraculous conversion
by Helen Westover on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 6:48pm
The story begins with Alison's insistence that I read the unbelievably bad Twilight series. This is about good vampires, and bad vampires, written by a Mormon to whom the stories just "came". At the time, Alison was a "recovering Catholic", who attended a non-denominational "church. So, I offered it up, and read the damn things (a trilogy). In return I sent her the Bill Biersach book, "The Darkness Did Not", about decidedly BAD vampires, vampires that were actually demons.Bill Biersach is a Trad author who has written several "Father Baptist" novels - truly funny, suspenseful, and shot through with Traditional Catholicism. I began to realize what I was dealing with when Alison asked me, "Mom, were the crusades fought against the MOSLEMS?" As she read, she realized how she had been cheated by her (expensive) "Catholic" education. All these riches, she said; a true Catholic Culture, about which she knew nothing. I put her in touch with
Bill, and they began to talk via email. She learned that her "Bible Church" had dumped 11 books of the original Bible - how many distortions were in their bible - she realized that she had been deceived. Bill told her to read his autobiography, in which he chronicled his betrayal by the Conciliar Church, his years of wandering, and his eventual discovery of Tradition. It mirrored Alison's path. Over a month or so, Aliie realized that in the Catholic Church was the Truth - nowhere else could Truth be found. She saw a FSSP priest yesterday - lots of kinks to iron out, for her to receive the Sacraments (Pray for this, please), yet she came away from the encounter more determined than ever. She will go to Confession, for the first time in years today, will attend our Mass on Sunday, and also will be invested in the Scapular. This whole thing has my head spinning. I have witnessed a true miracle (much of this is condensed so as not to bore
you all to tears). Out of my reading of occult books (which I read so I could gently point out their errors), came a miracle of conversion. She is happier than I have ever known her to be.I ask your prayers for her, and for me, and for my dear friend Bill Biersach, that what God has begun in Alison will bear much fruit. She is quite a target now for you-know-who.May His Majesty be praised forever.Helen
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Howard Weathington Thank you for sharing this story. GBYall!
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Howard Weathington I have a 28 yr old that needs to come back to the church also. So we all must pray for each other.
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Bernadette Powers Great story Helen..thanks for sharing..I also have a daughter who is in the same boat..
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Helen Westover Give them the Bill Biersach books!
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Howard Weathington Getting open discussion seems to be the start of a positive move in the "right" direction, besides praying a rosary or a Mass a day.
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My Dear Daughter

My 40ish daughter is reading "The Darkness Did Not" by Bill Biersach. I'll expand on this later, but the book (hilarious, terrifying, didactive in a non-threatening way) Has moved her to actually reconsider the Faith of her birth - Roman Catholicism.
This is so many faceted, I'll be back when I have time.