Our newborn!!!

Our newest arrival: Anselm Anthony Aquinas Hamilton!!! He was born on 21st July 2008 at 5am. We hope he will draw on the power of these great doctors of the church, (who were all just about contemparies) and that he may follow their examples of holiness, and humility, while in posessession of great gifts from God: intelligence, in prudence, governance and evangelisation.

If you 'd like to know about who Anselm was, check out this website: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01546a.htm

I must say, the birth of our son has brought us soooo much joy already, (its indescribable) even though he was only born 16 hours ago, and my wife is still in hospital. For me, I think its because having been a father already for 2 1/2 years now, I know what joys await me from the experiences I have had with my young daughter who will be three in December.

The birth of a new child really is "the gospel of life" for us, that is: "the good news" of life, and what good news it is! I am over come with renewed joy! I fail to understand when some say, they only want to have one child, or cannot wait until their children are at school (or freely choose a career, whereby they rarely see their family). Both myself and my wife are coming to new practical realisations of the pro-life & pro-family teachings of the Church, which is a treasure chest of untold riches indeed, as we are finding as our family grows. We hope to have many more!

Scripture is so clear in many places that children bring immesurible joy to the lives of their parents (if they bring them up according to God's will): "your children like shoots of the olive around your table...may the Lord bles you from Sion all the days of your life... May you see your children's children."

Your brother in Christ,

Peter

Why abortion is wrong

Abortion is wrong because it is the deliberate killing of a defenceless human being.

I cannot believe it happens every day. Yet, it does. Millions of defenceless babies in the womb are ruthlessly and mercilessly slaughtered. In many of these cases, the state pays for it.

I do feel for the women who have an abortion, as I believe they do not know what they are doing. But the doctors and nurses must know what they are doing, as they check that all of the babies' body parts have come out of the womb after the murder.

The video that accompanies this short article is a wonderful testimony of one of many abortion victims:

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ce169488fe6c6f1ad3c9

May God bless, save and protect the children in the womb.

Where have you been?

Sorry, been inactive since October now!

All the usual excuses apply about being very busy, however, they are true: honest!

Well, since October, Peter has been helping out with the teaching on the RCIA course at the parish in Weybridge, and we are also expecting a little boy in mid-July! Annalisa is well, and so is Elizabeth: I must upload some recent pics of us soon. I need to put them on the computer first I suppose :-)

Last week I wrote the following letter to Gordon Brown about the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill that is coming to the house of commons soon. Please feel happy to copy and paste/edit and send yourself if you can. its about not letting Labour MPs have a free vote. You'll notice it mentions nothing from a religious perspective, as I believe he (like Tony Blair) believes faith is fine for yourself, but not in public. Thus, I have just used basic secular logical arguments that even he (hopefully) cannot deny!

Dear Mr. Gordon Brown
I am concerned that you will not be allowing a free vote on the forthcoming Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

The main reason for this is that by only allowing labour MPs to abstain from voting, you are asking them to go against their consciences, on what, to some of them, and to many in society at large, is a very grave moral matter.

To force others to do nothing, when they believe such an Act will be disastrous for humanity, is plainly unfair. Let me use an example argument to make my point: if my employer had set up a tax evasion scheme which netted the company £100 million every year, and I found out, I believe it would be my duty to do something about it., and not just think to myself: my conscience is clear, I haven’t helped the company steal money.

I know this example seems a little extreme, but this "extremeness" is how many people feel about this proposed bill. So, although to you it may seem like a conscience no-brainer, it is not to many others (both within government, and in society at large). This is not because of some anti-science, extreme form of religion. Many (including a large body of scientists) believe that allowing animal genes into the human gene pool could possibly be disasterous for humanity, and once it has been done, it cannot be reversed. Still more, many also believe that human life is being further devalued, as this bill will allow the destruction of what are essentially (99% we are told) human lives on a large scale (at least thousands of lives).

It was said about the Holocaust, that it happened because "all evil needs to triumph, is for good people to do nothing". This is what you are imposing by your whip.

Furthermore, I would like you to consider the following two points:

1. All such bills previously (as far as I am aware) regarding the status of humanbeings, have been allowed a free vote by previous governments: are theConservatives more reasonable than Labour?

2. Not allowing a free vote on this issue is a move towards a moretotalitarian regime. Why are you suggesting on the one hand we shouldnot allow Zimbabwean sports men and women from competing in the UK ifa move towards a totalitarian regime is favourable in your opinion?

Yours truly

Peter Hamilton Bsc. (Hons) I am a physical science graduate from Durham University.