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  The Church recognizes the absolute necessity of repetition. The Christian Year repeats its seasons—Advent through Pentecost Season (or Ordinary Time)—year after year, so that the congregation and the individual can be renewed in the whole Gospel. Week after week, the... Read More →

    Prolifers can learn from the marvelously practical language of Alcoholics Anonymous. In AA, the phrase “stinking thinking” refers to destructive habits of thought that tend to return the alcoholic to the bottle. Those of us concerned with abortion do well to be alert to... Read More →

  Just when we thought the federal judiciary had given over its avocation of sorting through the moral questions that surround the issue of abortion, lo, the federal judiciary resumed its avocation of sorting through the moral questions that surround the issue of abortion.... Read More →

  Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas (Crossway, 2023, 512 pp., $39.95) Reviewed by John Grondelski _________________________________________________________________________ Ecclesiastes advises that “there is nothing new under the sun.” Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas show that much... Read More →

  THE WEAPONIZATION OF LONELINESS: HOW TYRANTS STOKE OUR FEAR OF ISOLATION TO SILENCE, DIVIDE, AND CONQUER Stella Morabito (Bombardier Books, 2022, paper, 304 pages, $19.99) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM Mattias Desmet (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022, hardcover, 240... Read More →

  For those of us who are Christians, however much we embrace biology, logic, and the law as tools to convey to others the right to life of the unborn, a fundamental question looms large: How do we effectively communicate a sanctity of human life ethic developed over the... Read More →

  In the wake of the Dobbs decision, it was not surprising to see the proabortion lobby raising hell by, among other things, posthumously summoning Ruth Bader Ginsburg (in the form of “Ruth Sent Us”) and by the timely release of HBO’s George Carlin Ameri... Read More →

    In a year of very visible attacks on churches, medical offices, crisis pregnancy centers, and even homes of Republican politicians over abortion, there’s been another battle—an invisible one—on social media. Major platforms were already banning pro-life... Read More →

  Political commentary on the 2022 midterm elections in much of the establishment media has coalesced into a mantra that support for abortion rights was a big winner for Democrats, even the main cause of the anticipated “red wave” not materializing. Correlatively, this... Read More →

    Where to begin? Since the Dobbs decision last June, abortion has dominated the news and even made a brief return to the Supreme Court. As I write, the justices have just issued an order overturning lower-court restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone. While... Read More →