Evil Advances in Increments

  The first evil step: In 2016, Canada broke with the long history of Western Christian civilization—and common law dating back to the Middle Ages1— when it legalized medically assisted suicide for incurably ill and disabled citizens who were in an advanced state of decline...
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Abortion Ads Misinform Ahead of Ohio’s Issue 1 Ballot Initiative

  Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot initiative, on which voters will decide on November 7, is already contentious enough. The proposed constitutional amendment would enshrine a right to abortion in Ohio’s state constitution and remove virtually every safeguard, including required...
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The Guadalupe Project at Catholic University

  In the days leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leaders at The Catholic University of America asked ourselves: What can Catholic University do to meet this historic moment? How might we lead with love in our response...
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Continuing the Conversation

  Last fall our longtime contributor George McKenna sent us “Getting There,” in which the seasoned political scientist, with over 20 articles in the Review’s archive, insisted pro-life politicians sharpen their messaging and deepen their commitment in response to the Supreme...
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Thomas More Society Turns 25: A Reminiscence of NOW v. Scheidler

    Introduction In November 2023, our Thomas More Society—a non-profit public interest law firm based in Chicago and now blessed with lawyers at offices across the country—will mark a major milestone: 25 years of lawyering for protection of life, family, and religious...
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The Myth of Dobbs Losing the Midterms (Part II)

In Part I of this two-part article we showed that the real burden on Republican campaigns was not the pro-life cause but the failure of many Republicans to authentically articulate the evils of abortion. A corollary of this conclusion is that Dobbs was far from being a “loser”...
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The Moral Clarity of Mary Eberstadt

  Mmmmhhfff, yuck—that decidedly past-prime odor enveloping life in hyper-woke, hyper-amped 21st-century America! What in the world could it be? What in the world could it not be, I meekly inquire about the cow pasture we have come, curiously, to call our culture: a name...
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Flee to the Cross

  The little girl broke free from her parents and made a beeline for the foot of the Cross. She couldn’t have been more than four years old, but she clearly knew where she wanted to be. Standing in the chamber in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, while the Greek...
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INTRODUCTION Summer 2023

  A recent news story got me wondering how much longer sane people will tolerate the devolution of the sexual revolution into farce. The CDC, apparently, is now using its website to instruct transgender men (women) whose breasts have been cut off on how to “chestfeed” their...
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“Life Must Not Be Played With”

    When I was a college undergraduate, I read Malcolm Muggeridge’s book Something Beautiful for God, a transcript of his remarkable BBC interview with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Muggeridge, a British journalist, author, and television personality, was not the...
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