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“A Voice for the Voiceless”
Melissa Ohden
Survivor of a failed saline abortion in 1977Melissa Ohden, a survivor of a failed saline abortion in 1977, is the Founder and Director of For Olivia’s Sake,
an organization which seeks to raise awareness of the intergenerational impact of abortion.
The lecture tour was sponsored by:
Defend Life and co-sponsored by the Fitzgerald Griffin FoundationFor questions
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“Remembering Joe Sobran”
November 4, 2011
MarylandA Power Point presentation by former Sobran’s publisher,
Fran Griffin, to the H.L. Mencken Club annual conferenceThe banquet was the opening session of the 2011 Mencken Club conference, “Canon Wars: Rethinking the Conservative Canon.” In addition to Miss Griffin’s presentation, Paul Gottfried, President of the club, gave a talk titled “What Should the Conservative Canon Be?"
Fran Griffin was a friend and colleague of columnist and author, Joe Sobran, for 30 years. For the last 15 years of his life, she was his publisher, both of his newsletter, Sobran’s: The Real News of the Month, and his column, The Reactionary Utopian.
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“Taking on the Abortion Giant:
How You Can Fight Planned Parenthood on the Ground”
October 13 & 14, 2011
Virginia, Maryland & PennsylvaniaA lecture by Eric Scheidler
Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League of ChicagoEric Scheidler is Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League of Chicago, ProLifeAction.org, founded in 1980 by his father, veteran pro-life leader, Joe Scheidler, to fight abortion through non-violent direct action.
Since August 2007, Eric has headed the grassroots pro-life group, Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood, dedicated to shutting down the nation’s largest abortion facility, which opened in Aurora, Illinois, under a cloud of deception and controversy. Eric speaks frequently on pro-life issues to audiences around the country.
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"Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars"
September 15 & 16, 2011
MarylandA lecture by Monica Miller
university professor of theology
founder of Citizens for a Pro-Life SocietyProfessor Miller described her dramatic adventures in pro-life action in Chicago and Michigan
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The Challenges to the Christian Conscience
in the Era of Obama
March 10 & 11, 2011
Baltimore/Washington, D.C.How should a Christian respond to the Obama health care legislation, the President’s support for same-sex unions, and federally-funded abortions — and the denial of the “conscience clause” for health care providers?
Charles Rice, professor emeritus, Notre Dame Law School, one of America’s leading Constitutional scholars discussed how a Christian should respond to an increasingly-hostile culture and government in a lecture tour in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area.
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The Story of Catherine of Siena
Diplomat & Mystic
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Washington, D.C.Catherine of Sienais one of the most fascinating women in all of history. Despite being unable to read (until taught by Our Lord Himself), she wrote one of the greatest works of medieval literature, and counseled popes, generals, queens and princes. She brokered peace among warring cities in Italy, influenced politics, and attracted citizens of all walks of life to her for advice and spiritual direction. All of this is just 33 years. She was the second woman to become a Doctor of the Church.
Drawing on his research (including visits to Siena), and the recently republished biography on Catherine by Nobel prize-winning author Sigrid Undset , Catherine of Siena, (Ignatius Press, 2009), Christopher Check presented highlights of Catherine’s life and work.
Christopher Check is the Executive Vice President of the Rockford Institute, which publishes the magazine, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
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A Tribute to Joe Sobran
All donors of $100 or more will receive an audio CD
of this tribute held on December 13, 2009
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Featuring remarks by Joe Sobran and tributes from friends and colleagues:
Patrick J. Buchanan, commentator, author, columnist, and broadcaster
Tom Bethell, author of many books, including Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?
Faith Whittlesey, former Chief of Public Liaison in the Reagan White House
Howard Phillips, The Conservative Caucus
Proceeds from the dinner will help fund a new collection of Joe Sobran’s columns which have never before appeared in book form or on the Internet. Articles from National Review and his syndicated column in the 1980s and early 1990s have been selected for this new book, to be published in 2010.
The dinner was in the Capitol View Ballroom on the 14th floor of Key Bridge Marriott with a beautiful view of Washington, D.C.
Photo highlights from the Tribute to Joe Sobran
All photos by Kevin Lamb
Fr. J.J. Pokorsky gave the opening prayer
Joe Sobran enjoyed seeing friends and supporters
Faith Whittlesey talks with Howard Segermark, Robert Royal, & Jean-Francois Orsini at the reception
Fran Griffin, President of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Pat Buchanan was one of the speakers
at the tribute to Sobran
Tom Bethell quizzes Joe on passages from Shakespeare during his talk
Faith Whittlesey gives a toast to Sobran
Robert Reilly was Master of Ceremonies
Howard Phillips gave a rousing speech
Fr. Frank Papa led the closing prayer
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Charity Under Fire
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
McLean, Virginia“Charity: (1) Christian love; God's Love for man; Man's love towards God and his fellow man.” (Oxford English Dictionary)
As the federal government continues its assault on the family, communities, and Christian morals in general, it proposes in each case a replacement modeled on the benevolent secular state. A most troubling dimension of this attack is the growing and virtually unopposed takeover of voluntary charity by the government. Even the Catholic Church, which historically (and theologically) is the ultimate bulwark against Leviathan, has succumbed; in return for its acquiescence, it now receives billions of taxpayers’ dollars each year for its hospitals, schools, and charities. The Church has paid for this federal munificence not only with the usual strings attached to funding, but also with its ominous silence amid the outrages committed by politicians (many of them Catholic) against Catholic morals and Catholic families.
Christopher Manion lives with his wife and daughter on a small farm on the Shenandoah River, where he runs an intellectual-property business and writes a weekly column for The Wanderer, America's oldest national Catholic newspaper.
Hear audio of Charity Under Fire
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Lepanto: The Battle That Saved the Christian West
Sunday, May 25, 2008
McLean, VirginiaOn October 7, 1571, the most important sea battle in history was fought near the mouth of what is today called the Gulf of Patras, then the Gulf of Lepanto. On one side were the war galleys of the Holy League and on the other, those of the Ottoman Turks, rowed by tens of thousands of Christian galley slaves. Although the battle decided the future of Europe, few Europeans, and even fewer European Americans, know the story, much less how close Western Europe came to suffering an Islamic conquest.
On October 7, 1911, English poet and theologian, G.K. Chesterton honored the battle with what is perhaps the greatest ballad of the 20th Century.
Christopher Check is the Executive Vice President of the Rockford Institute, which publishes the magazine, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
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