Fr. Raymond deSouza has a great article on St. Gianna over at National Review.
As I said on her feast day, St. Gianna is the antithesis to the current Culture of Death. Here is an excerpt from Fr. deSouza's article:
Yesterday, gay couples got married in Massachusetts. Last week, the Australian government announced that it would attempt to boost the dwindling birth rate by offering $3,000 to new mothers, with the finance minister encouraging Australians to go home and "do their patriotic duty". This month New Jersey created a publicly-funded research center where embryos will be used for experiments which require their destruction. Last year, Korean scientists successfully created a human clone to harvest its stem cells.
In the midst of all this, Pope John Paul, who today celebrates his 84th birthday, canonized a remarkable woman last Sunday — Dr. Gianna Beretta Molla. The new saint, who died in 1962, was a physician of cultured tastes — she enjoyed fashion, the symphony, and took in the opera at Milan's La Scala — and varied recreations. She painted, played sports, and was a skier and mountaineer. She married the love of her life, Pietro, and with the birth of her children, was a woman as accomplished and as happy as could be imagined. The secret of her joy was her deep Catholic faith.
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