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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 →

  Bryan Johnson has a clone. “I just cloned myself…as a newborn,” he posted on X last month. The 48-year-old venture capitalist is on a mission not to die, and he invests $2 million each year in this project. Bloomberg reported three years ago that “his test results... Read More →

  This article was originally published at CatholicCulture.org on June 18, 2026 (link). It is reprinted with permission from Catholic World News. ________________________________________________________________ As of June, 2026 ten states have added voter-approved... Read More →