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  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 →

    The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece highlighting the rise in “men suing over their partners’ abortions.” The piece framed these lawsuits as mere ploys from the ‘anti-abortion movement’ to target abortion providers, suggesting that the male plaintiffs... Read More →

The day the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center was announced in June of 2022, I was on a 24-hour shift at my hospital in Indiana, where I work as an obstetric hospitalist, serving women who have been admitted either for labor and delivery or due... Read More →

  In a recent address to French Catholic political leaders gathered in Rome for the Holy Year, Pope Leo spoke of the weighty challenges they face in our often hostile world: I am well aware that the openly Christian commitment of a public official is not easy, especially in... Read More →