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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.


Choosing Choice

11 Aug 2026
  In our college biology class, one of our assignments was to follow the development of the chicken from its first day until it hatched on day 21. The chicken embryo develops from a single cell to a fully formed chick over three weeks of incubation at a temperature of...
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Two Meanings for the Word Life: Bios, Zoe, and the Unborn Child

29 Jul 2026
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Celebrated author C. S. Lewis, who built a career on the basis of his love for words, distinguishes in Mere Christianity (1952) between two radically different meanings that the ancient Greeks had for the word “life.” The Greek word bios (from which we derive the word biology)...
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Then and Now: Filling in the Blanks

16 Jun 2026
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  Lisa Rose, a graduate of UCLA, is the president and founder of Live Action, a non-profit organization that supports life and is known for its media advocacy and undercover investigations.   She recounts an incident that took place while she was a student at UCLA that tells us,...
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The Glory of Life and the Glamor of Lust

12 May 2026
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  I would like to ask students the following question: “In the interest of equality, do you think that pilots and passengers should take turns in flying the plane”?  “No,” I would expect them to say, because an untrained passenger would expose everyone on the aircraft to...
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To Kill or Not to Kill

13 Apr 2026
  Public protests, for the most part, are attempts to awaken society to a moral position about which society is seemingly asleep. One thing protestors are not at all interested in is dialogue. Their position is deemed ironclad and has no need of being challenged. Among the...
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The Transmission of Life

24 Mar 2026
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  In his encyclopedic study of the abortion issue, Abortion, the Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (1970), American philosopher Germain Grisez makes an important point that warrants further attention. He states that: “since new human individuals develop from the union of...
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The March for Life and the Meaning of Life

16 Feb 2026
  For the 53rd time, those who are dedicated to the proposition that all human life is sacred marched this past January 23 in order to bring that message to the world. Has the world been listening? The rate of abortion in the United States, given the convenience of abortion...
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An Issue of the Heart

13 Jan 2026
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  It was a titanic struggle under a scorching sun. The players, now bathed in perspiration, gave it their all. Suddenly the whistle was heard. The game was over. Manchester defeated Aberdeen by a score of 1 to 0. The matter was settled and recorded for posterity. It would always...
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God Is Not Stingy

18 Nov 2025
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  A certain Catholic nun, whose name we need not divulge, has drawn upon theology to buttress her pro-choice philosophy. She argues that since God gave her the gift of choosing, she should use that gift. Therefore, in being pro-choice, she is cooperating with God. God,...
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Punishing the Good Samaritan

16 Sep 2025
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  A speaker from Harvard, whose name I have long forgotten, recited to us the only poem he ever penned. The last two lines of his sole poetic effort linger in my memory: “It’s just the reverse of what Darwin said/We are going back to the quadruped.” The lines are comical, but...
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