“I Am What I Say I Am” and Other Fictions

  . . . . Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: . . . myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” _____________________________________________________________ One...
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All Souls

  When Saint Paul visited Athens and saw the abundance of statues of the gods they worshipped, he observed: “I see you Athenians are very religious.” If Paul were to visit the United States in the month of October, he would no doubt say, “I see you Americans are very...
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The Surprisingly Controversial IVF Alternative Dividing Washington

  The following was first published on Oct. 16, 2025, by the Washington Examiner. Read the original here. __________________________________________________________________________________ It may seem like pronatalism is the province of the Right, but when it comes to...
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Planned Parenthood Defunding Won’t Hurt Women, New Study Confirms

  A new analysis from the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute confirms that defunding Planned Parenthood will not limit women’s access to real healthcare. The nation’s largest abortion vendor is set to lose taxpayer funding for at least a year due to a federal budget passed...
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How God Still Loves the World

  Saint Teresa of Calcutta is cited by Pope Leo XIV in his just published apostolic exhortation Dilexit te (“I have loved you”): Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, she dedicated her life to the dying abandoned on the streets of India. She gathered the rejected, washed...
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Human Life Foundation Co-Sponsors DC Pro-Life Alternatives Conference

  “Leading with Love,” a conference on pregnancy crisis centers and concrete assistance to new mothers – especially those in crisis pregnancies – took place October 8 at The Catholic University of America, Washington. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Human Life...
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Together for Life

  I should imagine that everybody here, without exception, has been to many, many such meetings; at least meetings that roughly fall under the umbrella of pro-life concern. And one of the most important things, I think, for all of us to remind ourselves of—and to be reminded...
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Abortion Pill Rebranded as ‘Period Pill’

  As more and more studies expose the dangers of chemical abortion pills, pro-abortion activists are panicking. Yet instead of admitting that their pro-woman charade is failing, they have resorted to a much less admirable, and far more predictable, tactic: rewriting the...
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There Are Boys; There Are Girls

To begin: Good for the United States Supreme Court! Very good for the United States Supreme Court! In fact, glory be, and the bar’s open, folks. I find it impossible, though you never know in our present chaotic age, to see how the court could have negated Tennessee’s right as a...
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Angels of Truth

  Roe v. Wade—and the dishonest decades-long defense of its mandate to kill unborn children—has left a legacy of badly distorted public reasoning. To reach a pro-choice outcome, judges twisted justice; to constrain dissent, legislators silenced opposition; to appeal for...
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