A Beautiful Outside

  It was the seventies. Susan and I walked past it every Sunday on our way to and from church. It was a lovely little house, single-story, low adobe wall lined with flowers around the yard, a walk to the door. One Sunday, Susan told me: “They do abortions there.” We were...
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“God first, me Second”

  Ash Wednesday is nearly upon us, the beginning of Lent. The imposition of ashes of burnt palm branches on our foreheads calls to mind the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. In his honor, the people laid out palm branches along the road that took Jesus, riding on a...
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Michigan Legislator Sterilizes Herself to Avoid Pregnancy in State Where Abortion Legal Up to Birth

    Michigan state Representative Laurie Pohutsky woke up and decided that something needed to be done. Her home state of Michigan, where the recently passed Proposition 3 enshrined abortion up to birth for any reason and even for minors, suddenly felt unsafe for a...
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Planned Parenthood of Illinois Closes Four Centers . . . That Don’t Offer Abortions

    Planned Parenthood of Illinois plans to close four of its facilities, but only locations that do not provide abortions. The abortion giant blamed an “uncertain patient care landscape,” according to WTTW. The news outlet also reported that Planned Parenthood has...
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Pastoral Reflection for Lent 2025

  On the first Sunday in Lent this year, many churches will read St. Luke’s account of our Lord’s forty days’ temptations in the wilderness, which is preceded by a genealogy of Jesus (Lk. 3:23-38). St. Matthew’s Gospel has a genealogy too (Mt. 1:1-17), proceeding from...
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Pro-life Integrity

    Persuasive people are logical, passionate—and credible. And undergirding credibility is the virtue of integrity. If prolifers want to win people over to the pro-life cause, we should be in the habit of building and repairing our own integrity. A lack of integrity...
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Makers of Men

    You may have heard that President Trump recently pardoned several prolifers who were arrested and jailed for peacefully praying/protesting at abortion clinics. Kayleigh McEnany of Fox News interviewed three of them: Paulette Harlow (who was accompanied on set by her...
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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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New Jersey Governor Stockpiles Abortion Drugs in Case Trump Restricts Them

    The governor of New Jersey has made the killing of preborn babies in his state a priority by announcing a stockpile of abortion drugs. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has already signed legislation making abortion legal in the state through all nine months of pregnancy....
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Thomas More Society Petitions Trump Administration to Pardon Activists Convicted under FACE Act

    As President Donald Trump begins his second term, the Thomas More Society has an urgent suggestion for one of his first acts: pardon peaceful pro-lifers convicted under the FACE Act. “These peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents,...
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