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  [Wesley J. Smith is an author and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Hu-man Exceptionalism. The following was posted June 24, 2026, on National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).Copyright 2026 by National Review. Reprinted with permission.]  ... Read More →

  [Chuck Donovan served in the Reagan White House as a senior writer and as Deputy Di-rector of Presidential Correspondence until early 1989. He was executive vice president of Family Research Council, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and founder/president of... Read More →

  [Terry O’Neill is a contributing writer for The B.C. Catholic in Vancouver, British Columbia. The following appeared in The B.C. Catholic (bccatholic.ca) on April 21, 2026, and is reprinted with permission.] A Vancouver priest recovering from a hip fracture at Vancouver... Read More →

  This piece was originally posted on Aug 21, 2023  ________________________________________________________________ “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me” (Genesis 16:13). Recently, I was speaking to a friend over lunch, a woman who has given herself to what we... Read More →

  The choice to abort a baby is often driven by poverty and isolation. One study states, “Sixty percent [of women who aborted their children] reported they would have preferred to give birth if they had received more support from others or had more financial security.1”... Read More →

  I recently read news about a British woman named Wendy Duffy, who died in April at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. Duffy’s son, Marcus, passed away some four years ago in a freak accident at their home. Since then, Duffy said, she has wanted to join him in... Read More →

  I am a retired pastor. And you know what they say (or should say) about us retired pastors: “Once a pastor, always a pastor.” Well, we pastors tend to be practical in our ministries. In fact, we Methodist pastors tend to be extremely practical in our ministries. So forgive... Read More →

   New Jersey Governor Mike Sherrill signed a bill on Aug. 20 that many fear will be used to undermine the First Amendment and prohibit Americans from praying outside abortion facilities.    According to the Catholic News Agency, the bill will implement a sort of “bubble”... Read More →

    The struggle to defend human life in all its developmental stages and biological conditions, particularly for defenseless and discarded persons, will not find its footing in the drifting sands of uncertain moral intuitions that guide our secular society. While... Read More →

Daniel K. Williams (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025, hardback, 360 pp., $35 and e-book, $27.99) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. One of the constant shibboleths about the pro-life position is that it represents and is driven by sectarian dogmatic considerations... Read More →