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ROE OVERTURNED A 6-3 Ruling Ends 50 Years of Federal Abortion Rights —New York Times headline, June 25, 2022 When Roe v. Wade was issued on January 22, 1973, it surprised just about everyone, including our founder J.P. McFadden. He read the text of the sweeping opinion the next... Read More →

In late April 2020, while field hospitals built with millions of dollars stood empty and the USNS Comfort prepared to leave NYC after having only treated 182 patients, Governor Cuomo announced that further construction on such sites would halt, because they were unnecessar... Read More →

  In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade and declared that it was returning abortion regulation to the “people and their elected representatives.” The collective freedom of political choice that Dobbs affirmed sounded plenary.... Read More →

More than fifty years before the term “social media influencer” was coined, Rene Girard identified the social role played by those whose attractiveness and authenticity inspired others to want to be like them. The advertising industry has always known of our mimetic desires.... Read More →

Like theirs of old, our life is death, Our light is darkness, till we see The eternal Word made flesh and breath, The God who walked by Galilee. We have not known thee: to the skies Our monuments of folly soar, And all our self-wrought miseries Have made us trust ourselves the... Read More →

  This is the worst time for cancel culture to set its myopic sights on Pepé Le Pew, because Andrew Cuomo is Pepé Le Pew. I believe the women’s accusations of sexual bullying are credible. I also believe that in his own mind Cuomo’s done nothing wrong: They were all “old... Read More →

    HELP HER TO BE BRAVE: DISCOVER YOUR PLACE IN THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT Amy Ford (Chicago: Moody Publishers, paperback, 208 pp., 2021, $14.99. Also available as e-book; on-line publisher discounts.) & WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ABORTION, EUTHANASIA AND END-OF-LIFE... Read More →

  FREIHEIT!: THE WHITE ROSE GRAPHIC NOVEL Andrea Grosso Ciponte (Plough Publishing House, 2021, 111 pages, hardcover, $24) Reviewed by Ellen Wilson Fielding In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, Italian artist and author Andrea Grosso Ciponte conveys the courage and... Read More →

    In the 1960s, a group of radical feminists and other left-wing activists in Chicago began connecting women whom they encountered in their political work with an African American physician in Woodlawn, on the south side of the University of Chicago campus. This... Read More →

  A popular indicator of a nation’s health is the rate of infant mortality (the death of an infant within the first year of life). Logic would seem to dictate that technologically and medically advanced countries like the United States would have low rates of infant... Read More →