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  You’d have to search pretty deep in the news to find the story about Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, born July 26.  If you do find the story, it’ll likely be festooned with language about “miracle baby” or curiosity click-bait about “world’s oldest baby.”  Just don’t expect much... Read More →

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all... Read More →

  The conventional meaning of being “pro-life” is related to the abortion issue. Whereas abortion advocates identified themselves as being “pro-abortion” or “pro-choice,” those who opposed abortion responded by calling themselves “pro-life.” Being “anti-abortion” was a tag... Read More →

  It’s hard to know what to do with a film that begins with the end of the universe. The Life of Chuck places us in a generic urban/suburban world where normal things are starting to unravel. In a traffic snarl, a schoolteacher (Marty) sees a billboard with the picture of an... Read More →

  One hundred years ago, John Scopes was convicted of violating Tennessee’s ban on teaching evolution. His trial—enshrined in popular mythology as a victory of enlightened science over benighted religion—left more behind than just a courtroom verdict. It helped entrench a... Read More →

Washington state officials will take $11 million from an emergency fund to give to Planned Parenthood to ensure it could keep aborting babies. The decision followed President Donald Trump’s signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a massive budget law that defunded Planned Parenthood... Read More →

  This essay first appeared in Pins in the Liberal Balloon, a 1990 collection of essays from Fr. Canavan. ____________________________________________________________________________ The face of the earth has changed over the centuries and is changing more radically in the... Read More →

  California taxpayers have spent at least $75 million subsidizing abortions and birth control under special programs created after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. But the San Francisco Examiner reports the “Uncompensated Care Grant” program is running out of... Read More →

  The influential British journal The Economist recently reported good news: it claims that “gendercide” – abortions obtained because prenatal testing indicated the child was the “wrong” sex, is down.  In most instances, “wrong” sex = “girl.” If true, that’s certainly good... Read More →

  NPR, the media network that once played a recording of an abortion live on air, recently published a piece on the post-Dobbs landscape that seemingly glamorized the rise of women who are “managing their abortions without doctors.” The piece highlighted the increase in... Read More →