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  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... Read More →

  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... Read More →

  Canada’s foray into state-sanctioned euthanasia serves as a powerful case study into how quickly society abandons morality and ethical norms when the law fails to enforce them. It’s also a reminder of the humility necessary to embrace the beauty of life.  Medical... Read More →

  The following article was first published by The Dispatch on Sept. 13, 2025. You can read the original here.   Rebecca Smith (a pseudonym) wanted to give a family “the same love I found in becoming a mom,” so she became a surrogate. But when baby Leon died... Read More →

   In Catholic (and some Protestant) liturgical calendars, September 29 is the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. In England and Ireland, it marks the beginning of the academic year, “Michaelmas Term,” and the end of the harvest season. The Bible is alive with angels. St.... Read More →

  The state of Washington will destroy 30,000 expiring abortion drugs it bought for its “stockpile.” The abortion drugs cost the state’s taxpayers $1.3 million, according to the Washington State Standard. The state has another 17,600 drugs in its stockpile, for which it paid... Read More →

Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, who championed the pro-life movement and the rights of preborn babies, was shot and killed by an assassin on Sept. 10. Kirk “stood as a resolute defender of the most vulnerable among us—the preborn,” Students for Life of America noted in... Read More →

  American society is fractured; discourse that is civil is rarely heard. We are divided Red against Blue and Blue against Red. Our history is reckoned glorious; or it is taken to be an embarrassment. Technology throws gasoline on fires that otherwise might be easily... Read More →

  A Canadian news item that likely passed under most Americans’ – including prolife Americans’ – radar was an August 25 statement by the Québec College of Physicians seeming to endorse euthanasia for newborns. The British tabloid The Daily Mail claimed the College reaffirmed... Read More →

   [This (2009) column is reprinted from Fun Is Not Enough, a collection of Fr. Francis Canavan’s Catholic eye columns edited by Dawn Eden Goldstein and published in 2017.] __________________________________________________________________________ Since man is a social... Read More →