Mary & Drew: Ven. Pierre Toussaint cards

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ven. Pierre Toussaint cards

100% of the proceeds of any purchase of a newly-designed Ven. Pierre Toussaint holy card will go to the Haiti relief fund at Cross International. I have bought holy cards from this man before - they are beautiful and this is an exemplary business. At 25 cents per card, everyone can afford to give something to help these poor people. Buy some to give to friends, place at the back of the church - whatever.

Buy some cards here.

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From a moral point of view, circumcision is permissible if, in accordance with therapeutic principles, it prevents a disease that cannot be countered in any other way.
-Pope Pius XII, 1952

Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law.
-Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2297

Neonatal male circumcision has no medical indication. It is a traumatic procedure performed without anaesthesia to remove a normal and healthy prepuce.
-Australian Academy of Pediatrics, 1996

The AAPS does not support or condone the practice of child circumcision.
-Australasian Academy of Pediatric Sciences, 1996

Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed.
-Canadian Pediatric Society, 1989

The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons advises that there is rarely a clinical indication for circumcision.
-2003

There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period.
-American Academy of Pediatrics, 1971