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  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 →

On the evening of May 24, 1704, a serving woman named Agnes Catherina Schickin walked through the gates of Schorndorf, a fortified town in the Duchy of Württemberg. She approached the first townsfolk she encountered and confessed that she had just murdered a seven-year-old boy in... Read More →

  In the year 1219, Pope Honorius III gave the Roman basilica of Santa Sabina on the crown of the Aventine hill to Saint Dominic, to be a church of the Order that Dominic had founded—as it remains today, the Dominican “mother church” in Rome. S. Sabina was built in the... Read More →

  Surrogate mother McKenna West gave birth to baby boy Gabriel on Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the midst of a hurricane of legal battles. West was 20 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound revealed that Gabriel had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a serious heart condition that... Read More →

Roe v. Wade’s negative impact on American law, medicine, and culture was deep and pervasive. For two generations, the Supreme Court told Americans that elective abortion was a “fundamental right,” that “the unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole... Read More →

In his lead article, “Building an Enduring Majority for Life,” Clarke Forsythe surveys post-Dobbs America and promotes a path forward. “The Dobbs decision moved control of abortion from the Court to public sentiment,” he writes; no surprise, then, that in this time of “stark... Read More →