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[Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. The following appeared on National Review online on July 23, 2025 (www.national review.com). Copyright 2025 by National Review.... Read More →

[John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He is especially interested in moral theology and the thought of John Paul II. The following appeared on July 18, 2025, in the National... Read More →

  [Kathryn Jean Lopez is religion editor of National Review. Her following interview with Anne Conlon, then managing editor of the Human Life Review and editor of The Debate Since Roe, was posted on NRO (www.nationalreview.com) on January 20, 2012.] On January 23, opponents... Read More →

  In the book of Leviticus, God calls on the Israelites to accept thoroughly, and follow willingly, the Divine blueprint for living given to Moses on Mt. Sinai (26:3 – 27:34). The Almighty commands the nation of Israel to embrace this new way of life so that they may... Read More →

  Is the abortion drug mifepristone truly “as safe as Tylenol”? A new report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center is disputing the claim. Data from the report reveals the real world failure rate of mifepristone is at least 5.26% — double the rate from U.S. clinical... Read More →

  C. S. Lewis, a character in his own story, saw her approaching from afar. She was radiant. Leading her were bright angels, joyous children, and musicians. Multitudes of animals followed after. It was a great procession coming down from the high country. Lewis thought he was... Read More →

    [This reflection was written and filed in the interregnum between Pope Francis’s death and Pope Leo XIV’s election.] ___________________________________________________________________________________   It has long been observed that the Church is not a museum... Read More →

  [This article appeared in a slightly shorter form in First Things on May 3, 2010, ten years after the death of Cardinal John O’Connor. It is reprinted here, with the magazine’s permission,  to mark the 25th anniversary of the beloved Cardinal’s passing.] I first got to... Read More →

  Rape is the third rail in both the pro-life and pro-choice camps, but for different reasons. For prolifers life begins at conception, and since this includes embryos created during IVF procedures, certainly a child conceived by rape has the same right to life. But... Read More →

  From its beginning, the pro-life movement has been identifying the reemergence of eugenics, in medicine, law, and society. Indeed, despite the horrors of the Third Reich, the evil ideology never really went away. From Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s crusade to... Read More →