Man with 'Britain's biggest penis' appears on This Morning

Matt was seen live in the studio for an interview as he spoke to hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard

Man with Britain's biggest penis appears on This Morning (Image: ITV)

This Morning viewers were left sharing the same response when the man with Britain's biggest penis appeared live on the show. Matt was seen live in the studio for an interview as he spoke to hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on Tuesday (April 23).

Introducing Matt, host Cat, 47, said: "Matt has Britain's biggest penis, measuring over 12 inches when erect, which is more than double the average size" to which Ben, 49, added: "Far from being a gift though, Matt's large penis comes with some equally large challenges," before soon bringing out a ruler.

As the chat started, Matt said: "Is it the biggest problem in the world right now? Of course it's not, but it's just something that affects you in a way people don't think about."

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Matt went on to share his plans release a book about his "gift or curse", considering which way people look at it, next year after he previously appeared on a documentary.

Matt, who admitted to being shy person who can be used by potential love matches for his lare manhood, added: "I don't see why it's any different talking about this to talking about breasts or any other bodily part that needs to be discussed, it's just a medical issue, it's not sexualised, it's just a fact of life."

When Cat, who took over the show as the new main co-host last month, mentioned that it is good that Matt is attempting to debunk the myth that "bigger isn't always better", Matt agreed as he said: "No it's definitely not! Besides the practical issues, a lot of the time people think that it' more virile or more manly or stuff. You often get these myths because the people that are bragging about it often are."

 

Planned Parenthood Kills 40% of All Babies Who Die in Abortions

Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report “Above & Beyond” for 2022-2023 is of special interest because it is the first by the abortion giant officially covering the time since the June 2022 overturn of Roe. As such, it gives people an idea as to how much business was and was not affected by the Dobbs decision overturning Roe and what steps the group has taken to keep the nation’s largest abortion chain open and busy.

In the report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) says that its affiliates performed 392,715 abortions in the service year running October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The report shows there had been no overall dropoff at its clinics since the 374,155 the group reported in its previous report.

Nailing down just how many abortions there have been nationally since Dobbs is a difficult enterprise, but if recent reports from Guttmacher turn out to be accurate, this means that Planned Parenthood clinics are now responsible for something like four out of every 10 abortions performed in the U.S.

With not just prenatal care and adoption referrals, but staples such as cancer screenings and even contraception at or near ten or twenty year lows, one might be tempted to think that Planned Parenthood was financially suffering. But revenues at PPFA reached an all-time high of more than two billion ($2,054,300,000.000)! And given that revenues outpaced expenses by more than $178 million, it is clear that the organization has money to burn.

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All About Abortion

From the opening “Message from Leadership” PPFA’s president Alexis McGill Johnson and Board Chair Tanujah Bahal make their fixation on abortion clear.  Placing their comments in the context of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision, the two say that their “health centers” have been through “the most trying of times.”

Yet their clinics kept their doors open, welcoming patients from “down the street” and “from two, or three, or five states over.”

Later, the report details how that with more than 20 states “banning” some or all abortions, the staff was “moving mountains” by “finding appointments in other states and the resources to get patients there,” and “building as much capacity as possible for abortion appointments.”

The travel of abortion patients from pro-life to pro-abortion states was not an organic groundswell of suddenly desperate women but an orchestrated result. Planned Parenthood proudly admits that “In the year after the decision, 90 patient navigators across 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates helped more than 33,000 people get the transportation and travel support, financial assistance, and referrals they needed to get abortion care.”

Money was a big part of the increase in abortions seen at Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics post-Dobbs.  PPFA says that the organization “expanded direct financial support to help patients cover the expenses of abortion care and travel.” They don’t say how much money they gave, but the group says, “More than 15,000 people received assistance to help cover travel costs,” and “More than 50,000 people received support to cover the costs of their abortion.”

In other words, many pregnant women on the fence about abortion, perhaps being held back by the costs or logistics, opted for abortion after receiving an offer of subsidized (or free) travel and medical care from Planned Parenthood.

Abortion behind many other activities

Covering all their bases, Planned Parenthood wishes people to know how broadly they advertise and promote their abortion services. They note that 863,000 visited its special abortionfinder.org website, “helping” women get information on abortion and set appointments with clinics in their area.

PPFA also notes that 49 of its affiliates offer “telehealth” services, and that they had 123,855 telehealth appointments in 2022.  It is not specified here, but many abortion groups began setting up remote sales and delivery of abortion pills by telemedicine in 2021 after the Biden administration signaled its support for the practice.

Planned Parenthood wants people to know that they did not simply accept the High Court’s decision in Dobbs and give states the ability to determine their organization’s destiny. PPFA says that their lawyers have 30 open cases in the courts challenging abortion limits in 16 states and federal policies put in place by previous pro-life administrations. Altogether, Planned Parenthood says they and their coalition partners had filed suits about “bans” in 20 states.

They admit they were not successful in every state, but PPFA says that even where restrictions were ultimately upheld, “the delay Planned Parenthood fought for meant that more people could get the care they needed when they needed it.”

Working in social media, PPFA launched a national campaign to “destigmatize” abortion, getting women to tell their stories about their abortions. Also, when many states instituted protections for unborn, Planned Parenthood did a “Patient Reassurance Campaign” in English and Spanish for anyone confused about where they could go for (abortion) care.

More about the Money

Just over half of PPFA’s two billion dollars in revenue went toward expenses for “medical services” ($1.1445 billion) like abortion, contraception, cancer screenings. Planned Parenthood doesn’t detail how much money came from each, but abortion is one of the group’s pricier services.

To get some idea of its economic impact, though, costs at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic range from around $500 for an early chemical abortion to $2300 for a later surgical abortion. At a minimum, this leads us to believe that abortion brings in at least $196 million, though a figure at least twice that is not out of the question.

Planned Parenthood has not been above using the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs to boost giving. Revenues from “Private Contributions and Bequests” reached what is believed to be an all-time high of $997.5 million.

How much of this money went towards the subsidized or free abortions or abortion travel that we talked about earlier is unknown, but this sort of strategic giving helped keep abortions and revenues high at Planned Parenthood during what were supposed to be the organization’s darkest hours.

Of course, the government continued to be a big source of money for Planned Parenthood, responsible for about 34% of the group’s revenues. Given that $699.3 million in ‘Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants” represented a new record in taxpayer support, it is perhaps surprising that there weren’t more abortions, with so many of these women traveling from states where unborn children are protected to states where abortions are actually funded by the state.

That huge amount of government money is significant. It is probably one of the reasons that Planned Parenthood spends $46.7 million in “Public Policy” and $113 million in “Advocacy” to protect the human destruction that is essential to their bottom line.

Increasing abortion is the bottom line

There is only oblique reference to it, but Planned Parenthood and its affiliates have been doing a lot to try to keep their abortion business busy.

Employees in states with protections for the unborn have turned into travel agents shepherding people to Planned Parenthood clinics in neighboring states.  Affiliates in those abortion friendly states have beefed up staff, expanded facilities, added mobile abortion clinics to handle overflow.

Where they can, many Planned Parenthood clinics have added chemical abortions by telemedicine, so that patients do not even need to come into the clinic to get their abortion pills.  So far, we don’t believe these clinics are selling or shipping those pills to women in pro-life states, but court and administrative rulings may change that in the future.

While PPFA may not have seemed to have been as active on the national scene, they have clearly been active at the state level. They fought any pro-life laws and moved as many patients as possible to states where they have strong affiliates and high capacity mega-clinics.

Planned Parenthood has long been the biggest, most powerful, and most deadly abortion promoter and provider in the U.S.  Now, even with Roe in the rear view window, PPFA is poised to go “Above & Beyond” whatever horrible things they’ve done in the past.

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 THE PINKO/LIBERAL LEFT

DETTERLING

Recent discussions on here have made me realize how much I have always loathed the pinko/liberal extreme Left. I loathe all aspects: the intolerance, the atheism, the political correctness, the hypocrisy, the brown rice, the soya milk, the lentils, the low fat yogurt.

I loathe how the Left pay lip service to the principle of freedom of speech - but not if this involves something it does not wish to hear. The following encapsulates much of what is despicable about the Left:

Some years back I had a friend, a fellow-teacher, who was a member of the Labour Party. In fact he was for some years a Labour councillor for Westminster Council. He once related in the school staff room how he had been to a Labour Party meeting the night before. Apparently the subject of paedophilia came up. I'm not sure of the context here. Probably some attempt to smear the Catholic Church. 

Anyhow my friend made the very legitimate point that the vast majority of paedophilia crimes are carried out by gay men. My God! He was howled down. He wasn't allowed to say this.

What intolerance! What dishonesty! What hypocrisy!

GENE

 

Catholic Faith in Action on the Titanic

HELEN HOFFNER, ED.D.

God puts us where we need to be. A radical statement for an article on the Titanic, I know. But on April 10, 1912, God placed Catholic men and women on board the Titanic to offer prayer and hope when it was needed most.    

Three priests are known to have sailed on the Titanic: Father Juozas Montvila of Lithuania, Father Josef Peruschitz of Bavaria, and Father Thomas Byles of England, who had converted to Catholicism while studying theology at Oxford.

When Father Byles boarded the Titanic, he did not know that his greatest service as a priest was about to begin. He planned to enjoy the voyage and then officiate at his brother’s wedding when the ship reached New York City.  However, Father Byles was needed in a different role. 

Titanic survivors recall that on the morning of Sunday, April 14, 1912, Father Byles said Mass in the third class section of the ship and gave a homily that included references to lifeboats.¹ After Mass, the priest and Mass attendees resumed their typical schedules.

Father Byles was seen on deck near midnight when the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink. When crewmen urged the priest to get in a lifeboat, he refused and ministered to passengers trapped in second and third class areas. Titanic survivor Mary Ellen Mockler recalled, “We saw before us, coming down the passageway, with his hand uplifted, Father Byles…. ‘Be calm, my good people,’ he said, and then he went about the steerage giving absolution and blessings.”²   Fellow survivor Agnes reported, “When the Titanic went to the bottom, Father Thomas B. Byles stood on the deck with Catholics, Protestants, and Jews kneeling around him. Father Byles was saying the rosary and praying for the repose of the souls of those about to perish. To many he administered the last rites of the Church.”³

Titanic survivors stated that neither Father Byles nor any of the other priests on the Titanic took seats in the lifeboats.  They remained on deck to hear confessions and administer last rites.⁴

The example set by Fathers Byles, Montvila, and Peruschitz may have inspired survivors Ellen Mocklare and Anne Kate Kelly to imitate their life of service. Both women entered the convent years after their rescue at sea. 

As the priests stayed on deck, another Catholic, Margaret Brown, helped passengers get into lifeboats. History books and Hollywood filmmakers have named her the Unsinkable Molly Brown, but Margaret never referred to herself as Molly. Friends and family members called her Maggie.

Born in 1867, Maggie was one of eight children in an impoverished Irish Catholic family. By the age of thirteen, Maggie was stripping tobacco leaves in Hannibal, Missouri, to help support her family. She moved to Colorado where she met and married James Joseph (J.J.) Brown in 1886. Maggie and J.J. had two children and faced financial struggles in the early years of their marriage. They became immensely wealthy when J.J. developed a way to safely extract gold from the Colorado mines. Although she now had the money to live a life of leisure, Maggie Brown devoted her time to soup kitchens and other charitable organizations that helped women and children. 

Maggie Brown was in Europe in 1912 when she purchased a ticket on the Titanic so that she could visit her grandson who was ill in the United States. As a first class passenger, she was quickly offered a seat in a lifeboat. In the rush for survival, many lifeboats were launched into the sea with empty seats that could have been filled. Maggie Brown is said to have demanded that her lifeboat not leave until it had taken on as many passengers as possible. When she and others were rescued by another ship, the Carpathia, Maggie collected funds and clothing from its wealthy passengers to aid the Titanic’s survivors shivering on the decks. 

Before and after her voyage on the Titanic, Maggie Brown put her Catholic faith in action. While living in Colorado, she raised money to build the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, St. Joseph’s Hospital, and Catholic and public elementary schools. Throughout her life, she was deeply interested in questions of justice and equality.  She teamed with Judge Ben Lindsey to develop the first juvenile court in the United States. It became a model for the country. Maggie Brown’s concern for the poor led her to invite the Red Cross to use her home in Newport, Rhode Island, in times of emergency. She knew that money was of no use unless it relieved the suffering of others. 

The crew of the Carpathia met the Titanic lifeboats in the icy sea because they had received a distress call sent through a newly developed system of wireless telegraphy. Only twelve years earlier, Guglielmo Marconi, aided by the work of Father Jozef Murgas, a priest from Pennsylvania, proposed a system of communicating by radio waves sent over long distances. Jack Phillips, a wireless operator onboard the Titanic, used Marconi’s equipment to send a distress call. The Carpathia followed the coordinates provided by Phillips and rescued over seven hundred passengers who had jumped into lifeboats. Without Marconi’s invention there may not have been any survivors of the Titanic.

Catholic faith and leadership brought hope on the night of the Titanic tragedy, 112 years ago today. Priests onboard the ship sacrificed their lives by staying on deck to administer sacraments. Maggie Brown used her leadership skills to get as many people as possible into lifeboats. The wireless telegraphy developed from the work of Father Jozef Murgasa and Guglielmo Marconi brought the Carpathian to rescue Titanic passengers. Fortified by their faith, Catholics on the Titanic saved lives.    

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Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash

¹Herzog, A., “The Catholic priest who refused a lifeboat rescue: A forgotten story from the sinking of the Titanic”, America, The Jesuit Review, https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/04/14/titanic-anniversary-catholic-priest-refused-lifeboat-rescue-240380.

²Ellen Mockler in Herzog, A., “The Catholic priest who refused a lifeboat rescue: A forgotten story from the sinking of the Titanic”, America, The Jesuit Review, https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/04/14/titanic-anniversary-catholic-priest-refused-lifeboat-rescue-240380.

³Agnes in New York Telegram, April 22, 1912: Victims Knelt Around Priest As Vessel Sunk, Father Byles.com, https://www.fatherbyles.com/nytelegram.htm.

⁴Herzog, A., “The Catholic priest who refused a lifeboat rescue: A forgotten story from the sinking of the Titanic”, America, The Jesuit Review, https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/04/14/titanic-anniversary-catholic-priest-refused-lifeboat-rescue-240380.

Tagged as: faith, Titanic

By Helen Hoffner, Ed.D.

Dr. Helen Hoffner is the author of Catholicism Everywhere and Catholic Traditions and Treasures, available from Sophia Press. She is an Associate Professor at Holy Family University where she directs the program leading to reading specialist certification. Her role in the university's reading clinic enables her to work collaboratively with faculty colleagues and graduate students to develop effective literacy remediation plans. Dr. Hoffner's research interests include investigations of educational technology such as electronic books and the use of captioned and visually described television and film to improve literacy. She serves as an educational consultant for 20th Century Fox/MGM Entertainment Corporation and has developed a series of captioned films to help children and adults improve their reading ability. In addition to writing many journal articles and instructional manuals, Dr. Hoffner has written several books for teachers including, Literacy Lessons K-8, The Elementary Teacher's Digital Toolbox, Reading and Writing Mysteries in Grades 4 to 8, A Look at Realistic Fiction, and Learning Disabilities: What Research Tells Us.

 

Carlo Acutis statue to serve    

as a model for students

Students and staff of St. Michael the Archangel School in Leawood gather around the new statue of Blessed Carlo Acutis after it was unveiled at the school and blessed by Father Brian Schieber, pastor of St. Michael. Parish and school leadership hope the lifelike figure will inspire students to live a life of faith like Acutis did before he passed away from leukemia at age 15. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

by Moira Cullings
moira.cullings@theleaven.org

LEAWOOD — The authentic life of Blessed Carlo Acutis is a model for our times, according to leaders at St. Michael the Archangel Parish here.

“He loved Jesus, he loved sports, he loved soccer, he loved video games,” said Father Luke Doyle, associate pastor at St. Michael. “He was a normal kid who put Jesus first.

“So, it’s possible for any of us to do that.”

Acutis grew up in Italy and passed away from leukemia at age 15. Now, he has the potential to become the first-ever millennial saint.

To inspire the students of St. Michael the Archangel School with his example, the school commissioned Ferdinand Stuflesser 1875 — an Italian-based sculpting company — to create a lifelike statue of the teen.

It was unveiled to the school community on March 27.

“It’s beautiful,” said Father Doyle. “I think it’s a really incredible way that we can invite Carlo into our community — not just through prayer, but through having his representation, his likeness, in the school.”

Sisters Kelly Grace, Odilia-Thérèse and Lucia Maria Sol, of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, pull a cloth to reveal the new statue of Blessed Carlo Acutis at St. Michael the Archangel School in Leawood. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Sister Lucia Maria Sol, SCTJM, campus minister, led the unveiling ceremony, and pastor Father Brian Schieber blessed the statue, which features Blessed Acutis accompanied by one of his dogs, the Eucharist, a Bible and a rosary.

The sculpture is six-feet tall — the same height the teen was in real life — and made of wood except for his eyes, which are crystal. It took around six months to create.

The idea for the statue came about after a few members of the St. Michael staff visited the motherhouse of the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Miami, where they saw the community’s lifelike sculpture of Blessed Acutis.

“They commented on how powerful it is and how beautiful and instrumental Carlo is,” said Sister Lucia.

Last year, parish staff decided to commission their own version from the same sculpting company.

“Blessed Carlo is such a model of holiness for our time,” said Sister Lucia.

Father Brian Schieber and students of St. Michael the Archangel School in Leawood admire the school’s new statue of Blessed Carlo Acutis. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

From the time he made his first Communion, Acutis attended daily Mass so he could receive the Eucharist, she said. He also prayed a daily rosary.

“From a young age, you could tell he knew his priorities,” said Sister Lucia. “He knew where the fountain of life was. He knew where authentic joy came from, and it’s the eucharistic heart of Jesus, our Blessed Mother, the saints.”

Acutis didn’t keep the faith to himself.

“He had compassion and empathy for others,” said Sister Lucia. “He made so many friends. He would go and feed the poor. He would be there for the suffering.

“He spent his life in service to others, bringing the joyful news of the Gospel.”

Acutis also used his talent for technology to document more than 130 eucharistic miracles, and his exhibit now travels around the world.

“St. John Paul II always said that the third millennium would raise up so many saints,” said Sister Lucia. “[Blessed Acutis] is a vivid and complete way of that.”

The statue of Blessed Carlo Acutis stands at six feet tall, the same height the teenager was in real life. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

The campus minister believes Blessed Acutis’ profound faith amid suffering can be a model for students at St. Michael.

She hopes it will help them “understand that suffering, united with the suffering of Christ, bears so much fruit.”

“And that’s ultimately what makes us holy,” she continued. “It’s not just when happy moments are around or consolations, but the saints — and Carlo in this case — teach us how to lovingly and joyfully embrace suffering for the good of the world and the good of the church.”

Sister Lucia pointed out that the teen is still on the road to sainthood.

“And yet he has conquered the hearts of so many in our world today,” she said. “It’s just amazing.”

 

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Heroic WWII film is almost unbelievable, but it’s true!

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Theresa Civantos Barber - published on 04/12/24

A World War II heroine finally gets her due attention with a new feature film, 'Irena’s Vow.' This never-before-told story sounds wild but is based on fact.

It seems that every day we hear about a new book, movie, or TV series about World War II. What is it about that time period that so captures our interest?

Many of us living today had ancestors who fought in it, and it took place recently enough that it’s still well-remembered and heavily documented. 

But it’s more than mere proximity. The demarcation of good and evil feels so stark in World War II: Few wars had such a horrific evil hidden on one side. When the stakes are so high, no wonder storytellers return to this theme again and again. 

And World War II changed history: It feels personal, as we are still living out the consequences that affected us all. 

Whatever the reason, there is a seemingly endless demand for World War II stories, and we are quick to listen whenever a new one comes to light. 

A powerful untold story

One previously untold story of World War II will finally get its due attention with a new feature film, Irena’s Vow. It is the incredible true story of a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her life to help hide Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during WWII. 

Irena’s story is so wild that it would hardly seem believable if it hadn’t actually happened.

Courtesy of Irena’s Vow

Irena Gut was just 19 when she was promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer, and found out that the Jewish ghetto was about to be liquidated. 

Determined to help Jewish workers, she decided to shelter them in the safest place she could think of, which just happened to be the basement of the German major’s house! 

Over the next two years, Irena used her wit, humor, and courage to hide her friends until the end of the German occupation, concealing them amid countless Nazi gatherings, a blackmail scheme, and even keeping secret the birth of a child. 

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The power of faith

The best part is that it’s not some concocted Hollywood drama but a true story. 

Dan Gordon, screenwriter for Irena’s Vow, shared with Aleteia some of what led him to this amazing and unusual narrative:

Irena drew me to her story. Her story was neither something I read nor something I was told about. One evening I heard Irena speaking on a radio show [and] she had such a sense of pure faith… She was, after all, only 20 years old when it fell into her hands to save 12 Jews by hiding them in the basement of a German major without his knowledge. The idea was so outlandishly stupid that no one without perfect faith could have undertaken it. 

Courtesy of Irena’s Vow

That faith became clearest when one of the married Jewish women became pregnant. They had discovered a hiding place under the gazebo and because there were three married couples they created a space called ” The Honeymoon Suite.” Even in hiding, life went on. Love went on. Intimacy between married couples went on. When the woman became pregnant the Jews collectively decided it would be too dangerous to bring a baby into the world they now inhabited. The major would be sure to hear the baby cry and that would mean death for all of them. 

They asked Irena, who had been a student nurse, to go to the pharmacy to get what was needed for an abortion. Irene had seen a baby ripped out his mother’s arms and killed before the mother was killed as well. That is when she made her vow to God that if it ever came into her hands to save a life, she would. She didn’t so much oppose the abortion on religious grounds, though she was a devout Catholic. Her reasoning was somehow more innocent. Hitler was not going to get another Jewish baby. 

She was utterly and completely convinced that God would let no harm befall them because of this baby. Ultimately she convinced not only the mother, but also the Jews hiding in the basement to have that same faith. They did. When we did the play of Irena’s Vow, on opening night on Broadway, to thunderous applause, the man who began his life as that baby conceived in the hiding place, walked out onto stage. So, oddly, what drew me to Irene’s story had almost nothing to do with the Holocaust and everything to do with faith, nothing to do with death and everything to do with life.

The lasting consequences of Irena’s courage

Bringing home the incredible consequences of Irena’s courage, each screening will be accompanied by exclusive video footage featuring Jeannie Smith, Irena’s real-life daughter, and Roman Haller, the baby who was conceived and born in captivity.

Lila Rose reacted to a powerful scene in the film when Irena chose to protect the unborn baby’s life, against terrible odds:

Among all the World War II stories coming out this year, Irena’s Vow is the one to make sure to watch. Irena’s heroic faith and courage under unimaginable pressure is a story with great hope for our time.