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    This pastoral reflection was outlined on May 31. Ninety years before that day, on May 31, 1934, The Barmen Declaration was adopted by the votes of more than one hundred Protestants—both clergy (pastors and professors) and laity who were assembled at a church in... Read More →

  An academic journal retracted an article arguing that “abortion restrictions are good for black women” because a white man wrote it. New Bioethics Editor Matthew James told author Perry Hendricks that extra “sensitivity” is needed when “white authors write about racial... Read More →

    A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Once a camel gets its nose into your tent, the rest of its body will soon follow, thus wrecking your tent. [1]   Introduction Rushed through the NYS legislature with little public debate,[2] an “Equal Righ... Read More →

  One is not likely to think of Barbie as a pro-life film. Its premise is that there is a “Barbieland” ruled by women, an excessively pink world of upbeat and positive people who never age, perfect in skin and attitude. It is not a world of sin and hardship, where people age... Read More →

  Bee Chessman was born in 1994 in Hartford, CT and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the New York Studio School in 2020 and her BFA from the College of William and Mary in 2016. She has exhibited in New York and Virginia and teaches at the... Read More →

  James and Karina Majewski are actors based in New York City. A playwright as well, Karina works together with her husband, also a theater director, to stage productions of new work. Both serve as Artistic Associates with Arthouse2B, a Catholic arts non-profit in the city.... Read More →

    Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here. (Jeremiah 31:8) In considering... Read More →

      The bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will include protections for abortion under new regulations from the Biden administration. The law, meant to “[provide] for reasonable accommodations” for pregnant workers, is being interpreted to mean employers... Read More →

    This last week in May, either on Thursday or on Sunday, Catholics celebrate Christ’s gift of himself to us in the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of his Body and Blood. The Feast of Corpus Christi was established in 1264 by Pope Urban IV, who asked St. Thomas Aquinas... Read More →

    A couple of years ago, a colleague shared with a few of us that her daughter was suffering from a likely terminal cancer. The child rallied and faltered, and we rode the waves with her family in our prayers. We cooed over photographs of her bald little nine-year-old... Read More →