Hence, if anyone shall dare -- which God forbid! -- to think otherwise than as has been defined by us, let him know and understand that he is condemned by his own judgment; that he has suffered shipwreck in the faith; that he has separated from the unity of the Church; and that, furthermore, by his own action he incurs the penalties established by law if he should are to express in words or writing or by any other outward means the errors he think in his heart.
Blessed Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus
In a certain sense, today is the national feast day of the United States of America. Our patron saint is, after all, the Blessed Mother in her role as the Immaculate Conception. What a horrible irony that the national feast day commemorates the conception of Our Lady without sin, while we slaughter millions of newly conceived infants and then attempt to justify it by playing word games about their identity as human beings.
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Here in Portugal, "Nossa Senhora da Conceição" has been the patron of the country/kingdom since it was founded back in the 12th century.
Here in Portugal maternities tend to be seperate buildings from hospitals, unlike in the US. We just learned that the maternity where our child is to be born also performs abortions. There is something very, VERY wrong with this.
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