AN OPEN LETTER: TO THE CARDINALS OF THE CONCLAVE FROM A PROTESTANT PASTOR

  Dear Cardinals: Easter Season grace and peace to you and yours. With the help of God the Father, who displayed glorious power and good providence in raising His Son Jesus Christ from the dead, you can approach your duty of electing the next pope not with anxiety, not with...
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The Church’s Countercultural Mary

    Women in leadership roles are to some degree immune from public criticism. Often, those who find female leaders lacking tend to restrict their observations to private communication. Afraid of being labeled “sexist,” they pretty much silence their concerns. Sure,...
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A Long Prayer for the Whole Church

  The following prayer was written by Rev. Timothy Whitaker (1948-2024), who served as bishop of The Florida Area of The United Methodist Church. In 2001, Bishop Whitaker published this prayer in The District Beam (newsletter, January/February) while he was the Norfolk (VA)...
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Human Life Review

Letter From Maria, June 2019

June 6, 2019 Dear Friends,   TRUTH is on the march, and LIFE is winning! Although the stakes are lethal and the tension is high, it is more than a bit gratifying to see the pro-abortion forces in the throes of an apoplectic fit. As Christian pastor and author David Jeremiah...
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Summer 2008

Table of Contents THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW SUMMER 2008 1 Editor Maria McFadden Senior Editors Ellen Wilson Fielding Faith Abbott McFadden Mary Meehan William Murchison Managing Editor Anne Conlon Consulting Editor Europe Mary Kenny London Contributors Lynette Burrows James Hitchcock...
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A Joyful Pilgrimage

  The Church recognizes the absolute necessity of repetition. The Christian Year repeats its seasons—Advent through Pentecost Season (or Ordinary Time)—year after year, so that the congregation and the individual can be renewed in the whole Gospel. Week after week, the...
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A Confession for Life versus the Scandal of Division

    There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Christian denominations in the United States. This division of the Christian community is a scandal. Just days before Jesus was executed on a Roman cross, He prayed for His disciples: “I ask not only on behalf of these, but...
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INTRODUCTION FALL 2022

  Let’s face it. Until the Supreme Court overturned Roe last June, most Americans had largely ignored the nation’s ongoing abortion debate for almost 50 years. Why? Maybe because to pay attention would entail coming down on one side or the other regarding the desirability of...
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On the Storming of the Capitol: No to Political Violence. Yes to Civil Society

  The one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church strives to serve the Gospel of Life. Remember that the Gospel of Life is simply the Gospel, and that the Gospel is simply the Gospel of Life. (St. John Paul II and Rev. Richard John Neuhaus often reminded us of that.) Political...
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