
Mother of Conjoined Twin Girls Who Chose Life Remembers Her Babies ‘Wonderfully Made’
Our tiny twins lived only for 90 minutes, but our journey with them made one thing abundantly clear: God always has the final say
Our tiny twins lived only for 90 minutes, but our journey with them made one thing abundantly clear: God always has the final say
The LeBlancs met their babies on May 16 at 32 weeks’ gestation. Rachel Clare and Maria Therese shared one heart and other major organs.
Austin, who became a Catholic in 2020, shared that this experience has been a test of faith, but through it all the couple has relied on praying the rosary together daily.
COMMENTARY: The fact that the 2-year-old girls were not baptized earlier, by someone else, suggests an inexplicable pastoral failure to heed Pope Francis’ stress on the supreme importance of the sacrament.
The twins’ mother wanted her daughters to be baptized by the Holy Father.
The Bambino Gesù Hospital announced the successful separation surgery July 7, saying it was the first operation of its kind in Italy and probably the world.
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