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Her own husband secretly poisoned her with abortion drugs in an attempt to kill their unborn daughter.
By the grace of God, Catherine and her baby survived. After discovering what he had done, she took progesterone, which she credits with helping save her daughter's life.
Now, her testimony, exposing the dangers of coerced abortions and fighting to protect other women and their unborn children.
Our final Life Awardee, Catherine Pressly Herring!
By the grace of God, Catherine and her baby survived. After discovering what he had done, she took progesterone, which she credits with helping save her daughter's life.
Now, her testimony, exposing the dangers of coerced abortions and fighting to protect other women and their unborn children.
Our final Life Awardee, Catherine Pressly Herring!
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When this 17-year-old girl found out she was dying, she spent 25 minutes alone in her room. And what happened next would leave even her doctors speechless... ⤵️
Her name was Chiara Badano, and in 1988, she started having terrible pain in her shoulder. Doctors thought she'd en the pain wouldn't stop, they ran more tests and discovered something devastating.
Chiara had bone cancer, and it had already spread. She was only 17.
When she got home, she fell onto her bed and didn't speak for 25 minutes. Her mother could see how much she was struggling. Chiara knew what this meant. She might never get to grow up, get married, or have a family.
But after 25 minutes, she made a decision that would change everything. Instead of turning away from God, she chose to give Him her suffering.
And she began repeating one prayer:
"For you, Jesus, if you want it, I want it too."
Over the next two years, things only got worse. The cancer spread. Chemotherapy left her unable to walk, and the pain became unbearable.
But something strange was happening. The more Chiara suffered, the more people noticed her joy.
She would smile through the pain. Her family even caught her singing when she thought nobody was listening. And when doctors offered her morphine, she refused because she wanted to stay alert and offer her suffering to Jesus on the cross.
Her friends would visit, hoping to cheer her up. But they soon realized they were the ones who needed her.
People began calling her "Luce," meaning "light," because of the joy she brought to everyone around her. Even one of her doctors said her smile showed them that death wasn't the end.
But as Chiara's life came to an end, she made one final request that broke her mother's heart.
She asked to be buried in a wedding dress.
Not because she was getting married on earth, but because she believed she was about to meet Jesus, the one she had given her whole life to.
She even told her mother not to cry at her funeral, but to have everyone sing.
On October 7, 1990, Chiara died just weeks before turning 19. And her final words were:
"Goodbye. Be happy because I'm happy."
In 2010, the Catholic Church declared her Blessed Chiara Luce Badano.
She couldn't choose whether the cancer would take her life. But she could choose whether it would take her faith.
And she never stopped saying yes to Jesus.
💬 Have you ever gone through something so painful that you struggled to understand why God allowed it?
Her name was Chiara Badano, and in 1988, she started having terrible pain in her shoulder. Doctors thought she'd en the pain wouldn't stop, they ran more tests and discovered something devastating.
Chiara had bone cancer, and it had already spread. She was only 17.
When she got home, she fell onto her bed and didn't speak for 25 minutes. Her mother could see how much she was struggling. Chiara knew what this meant. She might never get to grow up, get married, or have a family.
But after 25 minutes, she made a decision that would change everything. Instead of turning away from God, she chose to give Him her suffering.
And she began repeating one prayer:
"For you, Jesus, if you want it, I want it too."
Over the next two years, things only got worse. The cancer spread. Chemotherapy left her unable to walk, and the pain became unbearable.
But something strange was happening. The more Chiara suffered, the more people noticed her joy.
She would smile through the pain. Her family even caught her singing when she thought nobody was listening. And when doctors offered her morphine, she refused because she wanted to stay alert and offer her suffering to Jesus on the cross.
Her friends would visit, hoping to cheer her up. But they soon realized they were the ones who needed her.
People began calling her "Luce," meaning "light," because of the joy she brought to everyone around her. Even one of her doctors said her smile showed them that death wasn't the end.
But as Chiara's life came to an end, she made one final request that broke her mother's heart.
She asked to be buried in a wedding dress.
Not because she was getting married on earth, but because she believed she was about to meet Jesus, the one she had given her whole life to.
She even told her mother not to cry at her funeral, but to have everyone sing.
On October 7, 1990, Chiara died just weeks before turning 19. And her final words were:
"Goodbye. Be happy because I'm happy."
In 2010, the Catholic Church declared her Blessed Chiara Luce Badano.
She couldn't choose whether the cancer would take her life. But she could choose whether it would take her faith.
And she never stopped saying yes to Jesus.
💬 Have you ever gone through something so painful that you struggled to understand why God allowed it?
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The Catholic Church found itself the target of the largest smear campaign in history. That’s part of the story. The other part is simply that many people wanted it to be true.
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I'm not envious of many people in this world, but I am of people who made it to four (or five!). We stopped at three, but if we had met earlier, there coulda-woulda-shoulda have been more. Be fruitful and multiply!
Have your fourth kid.
Go into debt if you have to.
I did (and got out) 😆
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This little girl was saved by a pro-life sign.
Her mother took the first abortion pill and felt almost instant regret.
In the abortion facility parking lot stood a sign:
“If you took the first pill, it may not be too late. We can help.”
That sign is why Sawyer is here today.
Her mother took the first abortion pill and felt almost instant regret.
In the abortion facility parking lot stood a sign:
“If you took the first pill, it may not be too late. We can help.”
That sign is why Sawyer is here today.
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The most punk rock thing Billy Corgan ever did was when he started to explicitly talk about God in his music.
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Never forget when LeBron James tried to doxx and threaten the life of a white police officer for killing a black woman before he had any facts about what actually happened. Then the bodycam footage came out and showed that the officer heroically SAVED the other black woman’s be stabbed to death.
After this, LeBron deleted the post in shame after MILLIONS of people had already seen it… many of them still believe it was a racially-motivated police shooting to this day. He STILL has never apologized to the officer for doing this… just moved on like it never happened.
After this, LeBron deleted the post in shame after MILLIONS of people had already seen it… many of them still believe it was a racially-motivated police shooting to this day. He STILL has never apologized to the officer for doing this… just moved on like it never happened.
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Records show suspect arrested in deadly Belltown shooting had just been released from jail:
komonews.com/news/local/bel…
komonews.com/news/local/bel…
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I’m shocked by the number of university administrators and professors who have no idea that the SAT is a completely different test from what they remember 20 years ago.
There are no longer any analogies on the SAT, literally not one. Think about that. The kind of question designed to test a student’s ability to connect ideas, which is the definition of thinking, has been removed. What does that tell you? Additionally, reading passages are now 25–120 words, roughly the size of a tweet (actually way shorter than this tweet!). They have also removed all logic questions from the math section and given students a calculator.
Were the California professors clamoring to reinstate the SAT aware of these changes? With reading passages as short as 25 words, the SAT has abandoned even trying to test whether a student is able to focus their attention for more than a few minutes.
When the two main college entrance exams become shells of what they once were, it undermines all of higher education. I believe this is why many of the most serious academic institutions in the country now either accept or favor the CLT. At West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy, we aren’t just an option; we have been declared the “gold standard” by the Secretary of War. This movement is already reshaping the educational track students aspiring to attend our top service academies are taking in high school. Add to this our early-adopter institutions, such as Hillsdale, the University of Dallas, and Thomas Aquinas College, for whom the CLT has become the main college entrance exam.
By the end of the day, we really do need your help to fully replace the SAT. Many individuals love what we are doing, but when it comes to their own children, they choose the easier tests (SAT and ACT) to maximize admissions and scholarship opportunities. I get it, but I ask you to embrace the challenge instead and help us restore academic excellence. The future of our republic depends on it!
There are no longer any analogies on the SAT, literally not one. Think about that. The kind of question designed to test a student’s ability to connect ideas, which is the definition of thinking, has been removed. What does that tell you? Additionally, reading passages are now 25–120 words, roughly the size of a tweet (actually way shorter than this tweet!). They have also removed all logic questions from the math section and given students a calculator.
Were the California professors clamoring to reinstate the SAT aware of these changes? With reading passages as short as 25 words, the SAT has abandoned even trying to test whether a student is able to focus their attention for more than a few minutes.
When the two main college entrance exams become shells of what they once were, it undermines all of higher education. I believe this is why many of the most serious academic institutions in the country now either accept or favor the CLT. At West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy, we aren’t just an option; we have been declared the “gold standard” by the Secretary of War. This movement is already reshaping the educational track students aspiring to attend our top service academies are taking in high school. Add to this our early-adopter institutions, such as Hillsdale, the University of Dallas, and Thomas Aquinas College, for whom the CLT has become the main college entrance exam.
By the end of the day, we really do need your help to fully replace the SAT. Many individuals love what we are doing, but when it comes to their own children, they choose the easier tests (SAT and ACT) to maximize admissions and scholarship opportunities. I get it, but I ask you to embrace the challenge instead and help us restore academic excellence. The future of our republic depends on it!
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IRELAND 🇮🇪
Huge crowds of Irish men undertook the Boyne Camino today for the Camino of Saint Joseph
Here they are singing Salve Regina in the ruins of the 800 year old Medieval Mellifont Abbey
Huge crowds of Irish men undertook the Boyne Camino today for the Camino of Saint Joseph
Here they are singing Salve Regina in the ruins of the 800 year old Medieval Mellifont Abbey
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I met this lil fella in a tent in Ballard a few years ago… aka Baby Oliver. @choeshow raised awareness and we came in one step at a time. Shout out to his Mom who continuously progressed towards self sufficiency. This wasn’t the government who helped. It was every day citizens used media and private funded action based orgs to help out.
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SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN QUEBEC:
Young Catholics are gathering every week outside Saint Joseph’s Oratory to pray the Rosary for the renewal of the faith in Quebec.
They’ve committed to praying for 1,000 days.
During one gathering, a downpour lasted almost the entire Rosary.
reading to Quebec City and Trois-Rivières. Catholic Quebec is not dead! ✝️🇨🇦
Young Catholics are gathering every week outside Saint Joseph’s Oratory to pray the Rosary for the renewal of the faith in Quebec.
They’ve committed to praying for 1,000 days.
During one gathering, a downpour lasted almost the entire Rosary.
reading to Quebec City and Trois-Rivières. Catholic Quebec is not dead! ✝️🇨🇦
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Deputies say 37-year-old Baylen Mills pointed a handgun at a driver on Hwy 509. Wrong move because that driver was an undercover Sheriff’s detective. Search warrant found 3 handguns and 64.7 grams of cocaine in the car Mills was driving. Yet, he’s free on $5000 bail.
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Narrative violation.
Since I was passing through anyway, I decided to stop by an AI data center. This is the QTS Campus outside of Richmond, VA, which is a 240 MW facility.
Honestly? Pretty quiet compared to what I was expecting. Noise profile was firmly in the mid-range (no high-pitch noise, very ent) and much quieter than the road I was on the side of (you can hear a car approaching at the very end of the clip and it quickly drowned out the building).
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Post reporter confronts senior daycare centers in Flushing, Queens after accusations of rampant fraud trib.al/TCeMljv
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Senator Susan Collins Just CALLED OUT Chuck Schumer for Inciting Violence Against Supreme Court Justices 🔥
“For example, a Senator stood in front of the Supreme Court building and called out two members by name, saying that they had released the whirlwind and that they will pay heated language, this completely inappropriate rhetoric against the Supreme Court endangers the lives of the justices and erodes public trust in our system of government”
“For example, a Senator stood in front of the Supreme Court building and called out two members by name, saying that they had released the whirlwind and that they will pay heated language, this completely inappropriate rhetoric against the Supreme Court endangers the lives of the justices and erodes public trust in our system of government”
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Ohhh my word. Instant tears. This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard someone say.
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