-Jr Family Blog

A great book about postpartum depression written by somebody who would know from experience is Brooke Schields’ “Down Came The Rain.”

Aunt M. recommends Dr. Dobson’s “The New Strong-Willed Child.” It changed the way she talks to her children.

A friend’s favorite book is “The Sinner’s Guide” which is available from TAN books.

An excellent, comprehensive, balanced book about vaccinating or not vaccinating children is Aviva Jill Romm’s “Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent’s Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives”.

Please email Corinne at corinne_book@dashjr.org if you can help with the following more than praying:

I was reading Sheila Kitzinger’s book “The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth” this morning when I realized how offensive parts of it are to us. I am writing to ask for your prayers and any other help you can give me so that we can publish a pregnancy and childbirth book written by and for Catholic mothers.

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This is from St. Alphonsus de Liguori’s book, “The Glories of Mary”. It has an imprimatur and nihil obstat, and this Saint is a great Doctor of the Church. (I started typing it on the Feast of the Assumption in 2007, August 15, but did not finish this entry until August 16.)
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I finished this book several days ago and we are leaving town today so I will write a quick review now and pack my laptop. It was copyrighted in 2001 and published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. in New York. The full title is “Trust Us, We’re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future”. I enjoyed reading it for all of the details about companies, events, schemes, and toxins like:
the third-party PR technique
the precautionary principle
industry-funded science and its skewed findings
Edward Bernays, a nephew of Freud
companies that poison and kill people and get away with it
the military and science in the US, and other funding
genetically modified foods from Monsanto

When I wrote the authors about something I thought they left out (the breast cancer and abortion link), one of them wrote me back! It is a good book for detail if you have plenty of time and patience, and I recommend it for its history at least.

This is what I have collected so far for the book about modesty that I will write (these are quoted by Rita Davidson’s book, “Immodesty Satan’s Virtue”).

Our Lady of Good Success said “. . . that impurity would inundate the streets like filthy ocean waters so that ‘there would be almost no virgin souls’” and “Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.” “The vices of impurity, blasphemy and sacrilege will dominate in this time . . .” During one of the apparitions she saw swords above the head of Christ that read, “I shall punish heresy, blasphemy and impurity.”

Ecclesiasticus 19:27: “The attire of the body, laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what he is.”

Deuteronomy 22:5: “A woman shall not be clothed with man’s apparel; neither shall a man use woman’s apparel; for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.”

1 Timothy 2:9-10 “In like manner I wish women to be decently dressed, adorning themselves with modesty and dignity, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but with good works, such as become women professing Godliness.”
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From another conversation with a different agnostic/atheist…

from our catechism, “My Catholic Faith”
How do we know by our reason that God exists?
-We know by our reason that God exists, because of:
1. The existence of the world.
2. The order and harmony of the whole universe.
3. The testimony of our conscience.
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I just finished Leon de Poncins’ “Judaism and the Vatican: An Attempt at Spiritual Subversion” about the Jews’ role in Vatican II. Here are two quotes that I like, from pages 58 and 59, by Dr. A. Roudinesco in his book “Le Malheur d’Israel”:

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Catherine likes to YELL! She stands on the couch against the arm and yells at me here at my computer. She is 10 months old now (Wow!!), crawling, and standing up on everything she can find. She has had her fair share of falls, and then some. (Don’t tell Grandma!) I am proud to say that she has not had a single pacifier or bottle. I have gone swimming with her a few times in the apartment complex pool, and now this lucky baby actually has swimming diapers to swim in, thanks to Great-Grandma Schomburg. So far Papa has been successful in keeping her away from the new server long enough so that she doesn’t manage to turn it off.

I recommend to all parents the book “The Family Bed” by Tine Thenevin. It is a few decades old but its wisdom is timeless. If all parents who sleep separately from their babies read it, the world could be a happier place. It discusses the safety of sleeping with your baby, how it is a good way of bonding with adopted children, shares neat and sometimes tender stories (and sometimes heartbreaking!) of parents and their children, and much more.

We are still waiting for a godfather for Catherine. Please pray!

Luke has news that he will post when he is ready.

I am reading “Brave New World” by Alduous Huxley and strangely enough, enjoying it. I hope I find our friend’s copy of “Animal Farm” before he comes over again…I haven’t seen any torn pages around, so that means Catherine hasn’t got to it. A good book I’m reading is “The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom” by David Kupelian. I like that last name! I learned that Judge Blackmun, the Supreme Court judge who changed our country’s laws on abortion and caused the brutal murders of more than forty million people, had a daughter named Sally who became pregnant in college about seven years before Roe v. Wade. As you might guess, when Judge Blackman asked his wife and daughters about Roe v. Wade, she was favorable to abortion! She ended up having a miscarriage and the short marriage to the father of the baby dissolved.