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  When Gloria Purvis was twelve, something remarkable happened to her. Praying before the Blessed Sacrament, she suddenly felt a spiritual fire move throughout her soul. It was the kind of thing one reads about in the lives of saints—except that Gloria wasn’t even a Catholic... Read More →

  Novel abortion law experiments continue. Within our federal system, our fifty states enjoy great freedom to experiment with laws that they believe are in the interests of their citizens. In a sense, this is like the scientific process, where different approaches can be... Read More →

In an essay that appeared in this journal about a year ago titled “My Pilgrim’s Progress,” I explored how moral failure and cultural erosion have produced a nether state where the most affluent among us, the most privileged, are nevertheless a lost and unhappy lot. I also... Read More →

  The most expensive item on the shopping list, at $515, was an “intact calvarium” (a human skull) of a preborn baby, age 18 to 24 weeks. Baby livers were listed at $340 each. The seller, California-based Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), even had the courtesy to list... Read More →

  On a cloudy June day in Philadelphia, Dr. Leonard Hayflick leaned over the table in his research lab, wielding a pair of scalpels. His task that morning in 1962 was to process the tissue of two human lungs. After cutting the organs into small pieces, Hayflick poured them... Read More →

When ashes are imposed at the beginning of Lent various words are spoken, but the traditional ones are “Remember, O man, that dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” These reach back to the first human being, the Adam, into whom God breathed life after forming him from... Read More →

  What does protecting the lives of unborn children look like in the era of Covid-19? Covid-19 prevention measures have, sadly, become highly politicized. In this article I will address the risks Covid-19 poses to pregnant women and their children and discuss the available... Read More →

My sainted mother (1911-2003), a woman of old-timey Southern graces, was wont to smooth down the edges of her expostulations; e.g., “If it’s not one ‘d’ thing, it’s another!” With embedded “d” or not, I never have diverged much from that magisterial judgment on the human race’s... Read More →

  Who would have thought it? China of all places is “closing abortion clinics and expanding services to help couples conceive” (see the report in From the Website). Yes, they have a birth dearth in China. So do we, as senior editor William Murchison reminds us ... Read More →

  “There was a funeral at school today.” I don’t suppose that’s something you often hear, but that was how my youngest son answered a recent “How was school?” query. Usually, since he’s sixteen, his response is mundane, often a little cynical. Why describe the school day... Read More →