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    The struggle to defend human life in all its developmental stages and biological conditions, particularly for defenseless and discarded persons, will not find its footing in the drifting sands of uncertain moral intuitions that guide our secular society. While... Read More →

Daniel K. Williams (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025, hardback, 360 pp., $35 and e-book, $27.99) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. One of the constant shibboleths about the pro-life position is that it represents and is driven by sectarian dogmatic considerations... Read More →

What comes to mind before any specific image of the day is the smell—acrid, intense, invasive, unique. A mix of incinerated steel, glass, concrete, paper, plastic, jet fuel, and, yes, human remains, criminally cremated at a thousand-plus degrees. The sphere-saturating reek would... Read More →

Jersey Shore Women’s Center, founded and directed by Tricia Bradberry, provides support to all women and their families in a loving environment, connecting them to the resources and services they need. Through all stages of life, we walk alongside women providing education and... Read More →

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of... Read More →

  Locke is a film from a dozen years ago, a minor classic. It is also a life-affirming surprise. The film opens with Locke (Tom Hardy) getting into his BMW at the end of a day of work. In the dark he sets out for London, a two hour drive, rather than his home where his wife... Read More →

“We want more babies,” said candidate Donald Trump in August 2024.1 He was not wrong. Birth rates in developed nations, including the U.S., have been declining for almost two decades. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 3.6 million babies were born in 2025, the... Read More →

Editors’ note: The following appeared in our Spring, 2012 issue, in the Symposium, “Truth-Telling in the Public Square.” We are pleased to reprint it here in tribute to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, our Great Defender of Life honoree, 2026. His words resonate as much today as they did... Read More →

Many things propel the pro-life movement forward, even in what must often seem the most inauspicious of circumstances. Certainly, no factor is more importunate than conscience—what St. John Henry Newman called in one passage “The guide of life, implanted in our nature,... Read More →

  Introduction Since the pro-life movement first undertook the effort, many decades ago now, to counter the efforts of pro-abortionists to legalize abortion, those on the pro-abortion side have used scare tactics and false accusations in their efforts to consolidate and... Read More →