I AM LIFESITE： The heroic women many love to hate
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Summary
In addition to the curses and death threats we receive from abortion and LGBT agenda supporters, what s much more distressing are the stabs in the back from our own family and friends, and even from prelates and even the Pope. Working for an apostolate that is 100% committed to telling the truth in love is not for everybody. But I ll be introducing you to some heroic souls who have taken on this mission.
Transcript
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Hello, and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
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In this show, I wanted to give you an inside glimpse into LifeSite news.
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At LifeSite, we receive kudos and prayers for what we do, but we also receive a tremendous
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amount of criticism and even hate, both from outside and most distressingly from inside
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Working for an apostolate that is 100% committed to telling the truth in love is not for everybody.
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But I'll be introducing you to some of the heroic souls who have taken on this mission.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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So this is a chance for you to get to know LifeSite a little better, and to know what
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In addition to the curses and death threats we receive from abortion and LGBT agenda supporters,
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what's much more distressing are the stabs in the back.
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You know, sometimes from our own family and friends, we receive criticism and rejection.
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But today, even from prelates, and above all the Pope, we can't help hearing his insults
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such as rigid Christians or self-absorbed Promethean Neopelagian and being obsessed, sometimes
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And in this time of radical feminism and gender confusion that really amounts to an outright
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assault on the family, there's very few things that are more important today than young women
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And I am proud and honored to stand beside some of the most courageous, faithful, and professional
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young women in the pro-life and pro-family movement today.
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I'm Danielle, I am the Sustaining Donor Coordinator for LifeSite News.
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So my name is Carolyn, and I'm the Giving Specialist in Development at LifeSite News.
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I am Reba, and I am the Director of Marketing here at LifeSite.
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My name is Maddie, and I am a Digital Marketing Assistant.
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I'm Claire, I am an Associate Editor for LifeSite News.
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My name is Lisa, and I'm the Donor Relations Director here at LifeSite News.
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And I came to LifeSite because it's an organization that truly values family and life,
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and just my beliefs have really tuned into that in the last few years.
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And I just have absolutely loved working for an organization that puts their beliefs into practice.
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Well, I really think that LifeSite has a niche in the pro-life movement and in the church.
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For one thing, in the pro-life movement, it's, in my mind, the main news source.
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At least when I was doing pro-life work before coming here, that's where I heard about it and knew about it.
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And then for the church, I mean, the journalism is really cutting edge and I think quite unique.
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The fact that LifeSite is able to say things that no one else is saying, which is the most popular donor comment I hear.
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I absolutely love its mission. I live and I breathe the LifeSite mission.
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As long as I can remember, my mom has been, you know, using LifeSite to educate us as kids,
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not necessarily as a specific educatory tool, you know, like a book,
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but she's always referencing LifeSite articles, sending them to me and my siblings because we were homeschooled.
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And so it was a really fundamental part of our foundation.
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And having been raised as a cradle Catholic, life was always the most important issue.
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I'm really passionate about fighting injustice and there's no greater injustice in the world than abortion.
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And all of the things that go along with abortion, contraception, pornography, same-sex marriage,
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And one of the reasons that I really like LifeSite is we recognize that connection between various bioethics issues
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and how they all tie back to the same culture of death that's behind things like abortion.
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I'm fighting for life, for babies, for people who can't fight for themselves.
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And that's not just babies, it's people who are elderly and sick and affirmed and can't speak up for themselves.
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Like the fact that these things are being discovered and truth is being unfolded
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and actually shown to our readers is really where the hope comes in
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I'm just so fortunate to be able to work for this organization.
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We have different spiritual aspects where you really are growing in your faith too
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and you're surrounded by people who are willing to put themselves personally on the line,
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like our journalists, when they're reporting on these stories.
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But also, you have to have that faith component because we are facing a spiritual battle.
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And so, it's amazing to have these benefits of being able to be with my family and work from home,
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but also be with a team that truly puts their faith first.
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Yeah, there's a battle for authentic Christianity, for one,
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but of course, authentic femininity and masculinity.
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And, you know, there's a beauty to both of those, a beauty to chastity,
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which people don't see or value in the secular world.
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And so, this mission, the pro-life and the pro-family aspect
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and the Christian aspect, all meld in LifeSite's mission.
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And I'm passionate about all three a hundredfold.
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I'm not necessarily subtle when it comes to speaking the truth,
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even though it sometimes is uncomfortable for me.
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People look at you funny. They stop talking to you.
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And I have to tell you this truth because it's your soul that's on the line.
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And shame on me if somebody had a gun to your head
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but, you know, it might make us all a little uncomfortable,
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But I think LifeSite will continue to have a significant role
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but the darker the night, the brighter the stars.
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And so that means that everyone involved in the LifeSite family,
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You don't know if your views are going to be...
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if somebody is going to react in violence to what you believe in.
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And even if I don't understand what they believe
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And I smile because my dad paid for a nice smile.
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Like, you're going to want a God who is full of mercy and love
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and just so different from the world and society and culture
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And then, too, you know, as a wife and a mother of two kids,
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because I want all kids to have what I want for my kids.