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How we serve the most vulnerable in society
Pregnant women in need
You are not alone!
For the women who come to us, these words mean nothing if real relationships do not follow. And that is what our volunteers at Loreto House seek to do: as we receive this woman into our hearts, listen to her hopes and dreams, share her disapointments and difficulties, and walk with her in making decisions she is worthy of. It is at that moment that she comes to tangibly experience God's presence and help in her life. She is then strengthened in hope, because she experiences concretely, that she is not alone, that there is someone who really cares. And in this process we come to see who this woman really is, and we are able to delight in her goodness, despite whatever trials and sadness she has been through, or what struggles may lie ahead. We come to love her.
Our elderly and infirmed
We are developing programs for spiritual assistance. Loreto House will be a prayerful presence for families with loved ones who are critically ill or dying. We currently have information for families with questions about medical directives and the ethical provision of care for the elderly, the critically ill and the disabled.
Embracing our dying
Catholic Bishops site on Euthanasia
A Catholic Guide to End of Life Decisions.
Texas Will to Live Form
Married couples
We will promote Natural Family Planning programs for those who wish to learn more about God’s plan for marriage and the gift of life.
One More Soul
Couple To Couple League
Boma USA
The Gift Foundation
Pope Paul VI Institute
Healing the pain of abortion
Women and men both suffer as victims of abortion. We offer compassionate, non-judgmental assistance, and referrals for post-abortive counseling. Rarely do people think about the literally millions of men and women who suffer, all too often silently, and alone, the detrimental effects of past abortion. At current rates, about one in three American women will have had an abortion by the time she is 45 years old.
Rachel's Vineyard
Silent No More Awareness Campaign
Women Deserve Better
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Loreto House
PO Box 2533
Denton, Texas 76202-2533
Laurie Bollig, Exec. Director
Laurie@LoretoHouse.org
(940) 231-0971
The Gospel of Life
The incomparable worth of the human person
Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life even in its temporal phase. Life in time, in fact, is the fundamental condition, the initial stage and an integral part of the entire unified process of human existence. It is a process which, unexpectedly and undeservedly, is enlightened by the promise and renewed by the gift of divine life, which will reach its full realization in eternity (cf. 1 Jn 3:1-2). At the same time, it is precisely this supernatural calling which highlights the relative character of each individual's earthly life. After all, life on earth is not an "ultimate" but a "penultimate" reality; even so, it remains a sacred reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of responsibility and brought to perfection in love and in the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters.
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Capital Punishment
The sanction of death, when it is not necessary
to protect society, violates respect for human
life and dignity.
State-sanctioned killing in our names diminishes
all of us.
Its application is deeply flawed and can be irreversibly
wrong, is prone to errors, and is biased by
factors such as race, the quality of legal representation,
and where the crime was committed.
We have other ways to punish criminals and
protect society.
Read full text of "A Culture of Life and Penalty of Death".
Catholics Against Capital Punishment
"The purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men, and only where God is seen does life truly begin. We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary."
Pope Benedict XVI
Forming Consciences For Faithful Citizenship
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Voters Guide For Serious Catholics
What is the Theology of the Body?
College students are drinking it in, parents are holding study groups in their homes and dioceses are sponsoring seminars on it. If you mention it to those who know it, eyes light up and conversation picks up speed. The "Theology of the Body" is sweeping across the country with its liberating message of the truth and meaning of human sexuality-really of human existence-educating, healing and inspiring. Introduced to the world by the newly elected Pope John Paul II in a series of 129 Wednesday audiences, the Theology of the Body expresses what God reveals about Himself and the human person in and through the body.
Made in the image of God, each of us is called to communion with Him through a total gift of ourselves, a.k.a., love. We have been created to participate, in the dynamic inner communion of love in the Trinity, poured out by Christ on His Bride the Church. Stamped into every structure of our bodies is this call to mutual self-gift, to communion. Every time a man and woman come together in a "one flesh" union, their whole persons-all that they are-ought to be in communion, poured out for one another in total, free, fruitful and faithful love.
Since the body communicates who we are, it is in a sense, a language, and as with any language, the body can lie. The Theology of the Body is liberating people as they come to see what the body longs to communicate in truth, and recognize in their own experience those lies that have cheapened their relationships. This "Gospel of the Body" contains not only the truth, but also the real hope for a total renewal in the way we think about and carry out our human loves.
Text courtesy Sisters of Life
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