Open Letter To A Tearful Grandmother

Stefan, in his usual delightful but serious and thorough way, writes an imaginary letter to a tearful grandmother who is seeking resources to convince young persons to be pro-life.

Stefan is VERY! Catholic so be warned. However he's also very gifted in logic and blessed with an enthusiasm for God and by natural extension, for life. His website, Inquisition.ca, is chock full of great resources, articles and links, many of them related to pro-life issues.

How can we convince young persons to be pro-life? If I knew, I'd go tell the Pope! The best I can do is a very imperfect Reading List for Pro-Choicers. But this list doesn't even itself fit on a few pages. Indeed, it "points" to other texts, which themselves "point" toward other texts, and so on.

Why be pro-life, unless we know the nature of the human soul? And how can we know the nature of the human soul, without studying the soul, Nature, and Philosophy? And how can we study Philosophy in a society where the very ideas of truth, good and evil, manners and wisdom are rejected? How can we even have the desire to study Philosophy if everything is mere belief, if each one of us has his or her values, if our conscience invents Ethics as we go along, if constructive debates are impossible, and if all we can do is follow intellectual fashions?

But it gets worse. How can we stay pro-life, if we're not equipped to answer pro-choice objections? And how can we answer pro-choice objections, if we're in a Church where many members of the clergy underhandedly encourage the acceptance of abortion? And how can we defend ourselves againt many Priests and Bishops in our Church without falling into hatred of that very Church, or excessive criticism, either to the left or to the right, or even sink into an apparently Catholic religious cult?

So now you know a little of Stefan's style... why not investigate his work further?