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  Rape is the third rail in both the pro-life and pro-choice camps, but for different reasons. For prolifers life begins at conception, and since this includes embryos created during IVF procedures, certainly a child conceived by rape has the same right to life. But... Read More →

Republican lawmakers are considering a proposal to clarify that medical professionals can remove a miscarried baby without violating state abortion law. The bill would amend state law “to except from the definition of abortion a physician’s performance of a medical procedure or... Read More →

  From its beginning, the pro-life movement has been identifying the reemergence of eugenics, in medicine, law, and society. Indeed, despite the horrors of the Third Reich, the evil ideology never really went away. From Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s crusade to... Read More →

  “Gratitude is the attitude” said the spinning instructor to her class full of intrepid and somewhat exhausted riders. I was one of them. I liked the rhyme as I pedaled away; I liked the message even more. I remember being with a friend who observed about someone he was having... Read More →

  America’s twin epidemics of isolation and low birth rates intersect in the heartbreaking experience of new mothers in America. In my short time as a mom (we have two toddlers and another child on the way), I have spoken with women at libraries, pregnancy centers, churches,... Read More →

Princeton professor Robert P. George is perhaps the most prominent philosopher working in the United States today. He is also, arguably, the most accomplished conservative scholar the country has produced in his generation. The director and founder of the James Madison Program in... Read More →

    Thanksgiving is here. The time to give thanks in an intentional way —in silent prayer and/or before the family feast and/or in a sanctuary service and/or in a public square—has arrived. We give thanks to God, the source of all blessings—graces acknowledged and... Read More →

(This piece was originally posted on October 23, 2015.) __________________________________________________________________ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he... Read More →

  Every generation views technological advancement with skepticism. The first cars, airplanes, iPhones and other technologies brought a host of benefits while changing society forever. Most people would argue that these advancements were good, and some argue that the... Read More →

  [This column originally appeared in the February 1989 issue of catholic eye, and was also included in the book of collected Canavan pieces for catholic eye,  Pins in the Liberal Balloon.] ____________________________________________________________ Cardinal Ratzinger has... Read More →