Originally published at Leaven for the Loaf. A letter to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from a coalition of concerned Americans has urged that any vaccine being developed for COVID-19 be derived from ethical sources, without use of cell lines derived from aborted human beings. An associated email petition drive organized through the U.S.Continue reading “USCCB leads petition drive to FDA: keep COVID-19 vaccine free from abortion connection”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Podcast: visiting “The Catholic Current”
My thanks to Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., who welcomed me to “The Catholic Current” on The Station Of the Cross Catholic Radio Network. New Hampshire’s assisted suicide bill was the launching point for an hour of good conversation about public policy and the right to life. Nothing scripted there: no prepared answers, since I didn’tContinue reading “Podcast: visiting “The Catholic Current””
Numbered Souls
All Souls’ Day: the one I don’t have to go to Church for, as opposed to All Saints’ Day. I’ve never quite shaken that childhood view. I take more note of the day than I did as a child; that comes with time and age and enduring the deaths of friends and loved ones. IContinue reading “Numbered Souls”
Ellen Kolb 