HOT TOPIC: Charlie Gard’s Right to Life

The case of a declared “terminally ill” 11-month old boy in England has stirred strong reaction and questions all over the globe. Here are four articles to help you sort through it all–and decide–what are Charlie’s rights? What are the rights of his...
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‘Life More Abundantly’

  Health and wealth rhyme, and not just the words, although those tell a story too. The word health comes from whole, what an organism is when its gears are humming as they ought, everything in its place, each part in sync with the others, none missing or broken or...
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HOT TOPIC: YOU have a chance to DOUBLE your contribution—now through July 21!

Thanks to a generous, anonymous donor, any gift you can send us now through July 21 will be DOUBLED (until goal is reached). It’s a wonderful way to show your support for our efforts (here’s what we’re all about, for the newcomers!). Rest assured, you will be...
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Disabilities and Heroic Virtue

  In The Story of a Soul, St. Thérèse of Lisieux wrote that God  “set before me a book of nature; I understood that all the flowers He has created are beautiful, how the splendour of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not take away the perfume of the little violet or...
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Abortion Must Be Secret

  The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good (Proverbs 15:3).   Abortion trades in secrecy. You may or may not know that another undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood practices was released a couple of weeks ago, then...
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Our Malignant Normality

  The majority of people don’t have to go all in for evil for a society to turn to evil. They need only go one-third or half-way. That’s one lesson to be taken from the work of the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, most famous as the author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing...
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HOT TOPIC: from The Federalist—“Rather Than Judging Fathers’ Household Labor, Let’s Appreciate It”

But why not just promote people doing what they do best, on the home front or otherwise? If both parties are happy with the division of labor, who cares if it ends up being “gendered,” as long as one person isn’t being a total bum? Fifty-fifty score-keeping tends to stoke...
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The Lentils Were Planted!

  2016 was a banner year for earthquakes in Italy. More than 300 people lost their lives in two series of shocks that hit the center of the country—especially the region of Umbria—destroying small towns and their treasures. Nearly a year later, authorities are still removing...
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Two Rave Reviews of Serrin Foster’s Message at One Spring Night 2017!

As monstrous as it is, the claim that one cannot respect the dignity of women without denying that of unborn children has lingered for long enough to have been taken up by many Americans as an obvious conclusion. Feminists for Life — and every pro-life group that combines an...
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A Matter of Conscience

… having a good conscience… (1 Peter 3:16).  “I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t me...
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