The Moral Deception of “Artificial” Life

  While debates about the ethics of artificial intelligence are raging, a more insidious form of artificiality is sneaking under the radar of the Christian community. Like AI, this new technological effort is based on lies and sleight-of-hand. Unlike AI, which is a...
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House Democrats Upset Moms.gov Doesn’t Promote Abortion

  A government website that directs women to resources on nutrition, conception help, and social services near them is flawed because it doesn’t promote abortion, according to Democratic members of Congress. Moms.gov, which launched in May to coincide with Mother’s Day, is...
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ABORTION, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICS

  Sadly, death by abortion has always been around. In the ancient world, abortion was prevalent enough that the Hippocratic Oath had to be composed and administered to guide medical doctors away from taking innocent, preborn human lives. In our time, abortion has been...
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Robots and Clones and Humans

  The Human Life Review has a long-standing interest in identifying and encouraging pro-human influences in our culture. I think of them as signs that in the long run, reality comes through. To be anti-abortion or anti-euthanasia, for instance, one has to put ideology ahead...
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Colorado Teen Dies From Planned Parenthood Abortion. Media Is Mum 

  A Colorado teen died after undergoing an abortion through Planned Parenthood, though the media and local officials have tried to bury the story. “Eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello died after undergoing an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2025,”...
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God Adopts Little Girls Too

  This text was originally posted on this website Dec 30, 2024 ___________________________________________________   In the ancient world, baby girls were in effect disposable. Women were necessary to produce the next generation, but they could not inherit, fight in wars, or...
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Columnist Claims Biden Wasn’t Pro-Abortion Enough

  Was Joe Biden insufficiently pro-abortion? That would seem to be Carlos Lozado’s conclusion about the former president.  Writing in the New York Times last week, he suggests Democrats lost the presidency in 2024 because they were stuck with Biden, who was not pro-abortion...
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Holy Family

  When a young person joins a religious order, his or her parents often have a sense of loss: they feel that they are having to give up their child; this child has declined to carry on their line; in a sense, this child has left their family. I’m pretty sure my parents felt...
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Planned Parenthood Offers ‘Just In Case Abortion Pills’

    A Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering “Just In Case Abortion Pills,” to women who aren’t even pregnant. These pills, currently offered in two states, Washington and Hawaii, are stocked up before pregnancy begins as an “advanced provision” in the event that an...
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New Adventures with the Lord

  Our parish grammar school held the 8th grade graduation ceremony last week in our church. This is the regular practice at St. Joseph of Yorkville School. Rather than use the school auditorium, diplomas are conferred in the house of God to highlight the Catholic nature of...
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