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Fear of having babies at 40; Vatican oddly weighs in on Mary's titles; and more!

Fear of having babies at 40; Vatican oddly weighs in on Mary's titles; and more!

Update: 2025-11-07
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What is a good age to have a baby? by Leila Marie Lawler — embedded link re: progesterone treatment in IVF

The Facebook post, “40 is not the onset of menopause” — up to 300 likes/loves and 146 testimonials and comments

Leila on how silencing works — this strategy applies to all sorts of issues:

For a long time, many of good will wanted to extend a charitable interpretation of whatever seems disturbing in Fr. Martin’s work, especially when it comes to rejecting Church teaching (and normal morality) on something as important as homosexuality.

Their relentless overlooking of his intent is in part due to the success of LGBT+ activists in creating an identity to substitute for mental illness and perversion, and thus effecting a handy self-silencing culture among opponents.

Fr. Martin is good at this. He has maneuvered many Catholics into thinking they have to approve him in order to avoid being thought “mean” (a term he often uses for bigoted and hateful).

Why now? The Vatican’s odd ‘clarification’ of Marian piety by Phil Lawler

The Vatican and the trolls — Or: Is Cardinal Fernandez spending too much time online? by Phil Lawler

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Fear of having babies at 40; Vatican oddly weighs in on Mary's titles; and more!

Fear of having babies at 40; Vatican oddly weighs in on Mary's titles; and more!

Leila Marie Lawler and Phil Lawler