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Dr. Donald DeMarco

Dr. Donald DeMarco is Prof. Emeritus/St. Jerome’s University and Adjunct Professor at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He is a regular columnist for the St. Austin Review.  His latest book, The 12 Supporting Pillars of the Culture of Life and Why They Are Crumbling, is posted on amazon.com.


In Praise of Folly

10 Dec 2024
  What should I say to a young woman who enters my classroom wearing a t-shirt that reads: “I am a Proud Member of the Pro-choice Generation”? Perhaps my response should be relegated to the realm of the imagination, which neither offends nor upsets. Furthermore, I owe it to my...
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Piety and Laughter—J.P. McFadden

12 Nov 2024
  [The Human Life Foundation will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Human Life Review at its annual Great Defender of Life Dinner on November 13. The following appreciation is reprinted here in memory of our founding editor James P. McFadden, a widely known and admired...
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The Defiant Children of Ahab

25 Apr 2024
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  Ahab was the seventh king of Israel. The Bible describes him as a wicked ruler. He was married to Jezebel who persuaded him to abandon Yahweh and establish the religion of Baal. So defiant was Ahab in his apostasy that he had inscribed on all the doors in the city of Samaria...
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Piety and Laughter—J.P. McFadden

04 Oct 2022
  [The Human Life Foundation will hold its 19th annual Great Defender of Life Dinner on Oct 6. The following appreciation is reprinted here in memory of James P. McFadden, a widely known and admired Great Defender of Life—and the founding editor of the Human Life Review—who...
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Commencement—What Next?

20 Jul 2021
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The task of the commencement speaker is a curious one. After all, what can students learn inside of an hour that they have not learned over the long haul of four years? Cartoonist Garry Trudeau once said “Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing...
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Are We Still One Nation Under God?

17 Nov 2020
  After visiting the United States, G. K. Chesterton asked himself the question, “What makes America peculiar?” He answered it with accustomed perspicacity: “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth in the Declaration of...
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Why We Repeat the Mistakes of the Past

03 Dec 2019
  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This oft-quoted phrase, usually attributed to the philosopher George Santayana, was probably coined by Edmund Burke when he said “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” A more trenchant...
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Is Protecting Human Life a Form of Hatred?

17 Sep 2019
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  Heather Mallick is a regular columnist for the Toronto Star. In a piece last spring titled “Will Alabama’s war on abortion come to Canada?” she encouraged women in Canada and the United States not to surrender their “right” to choose abortion, ignoring the salient point...
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Message to Youth

03 Jun 2019
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  On April 3, our local newspaper, The Waterloo Region Record, carried a front-page feature about the travelling Anne Frank Exhibit, an international project of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The exhibit had recently arrived at Cameron Heights Collegiate high school in...
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Carved in Stone

03 Apr 2019
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  Gutzon Borglum is not exactly a household name, though the quartet of faces he carved on Mt. Rushmore is familiar to virtually every American. His artistic achievement is probably the most spectacular of its kind ever produced. The lifelike busts of presidents Washington,...
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