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Recently, a friend referred to Ronald Reagan’s years in office and, with the offhandedness of one who believes he is stating a generally accepted truth, said the president talked a great deal about abortion but “didn’t do anything about it.” It’s been more than three decades... Read More →

  After a life spent in daily journalism, I am coming to believe that you have to watch the little stuff in daily life in order to acquire some intellectual hold on the big stuff. Add up a lot of little stuff, after appropriate sorting, and you may arrive at a depiction, or... Read More →

Will a conservatively configured Supreme Court finally put a brake on “top-down enactments like Roe” that attempt to “cram great moral determinations down people’s throats”? That fateful decision, writes senior editor William Murchison, by “shielding pro-choice advocates from the... Read More →

  As I’ve shown in previous writing and am now researching further, abortion in colonial America was rare, and its illegality uncontroversial. Popular books carried a pro-life message. One, written by a person who called himself “Aristotle,” instructed midwives to refuse “to... Read More →

  [Samuel D. James serves as associate acquisitions editor at Crossway Books. The following column was published July 19, 2021, on the website of First Things (www.firstthings. com) and is reprinted here with the magazine’s permission.]... Read More →

  The one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church strives to serve the Gospel of Life. Remember that the Gospel of Life is simply the Gospel, and that the Gospel is simply the Gospel of Life. (St. John Paul II and Rev. Richard John Neuhaus often reminded us of that.) Political... Read More →

  In April, the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine received scrutiny after six women experienced a rare blood clot condition, causing the United States to pause its distribution “out of an abundance of caution.” Immediately, some trying to downplay the risk compared the... Read More →

  Directed by Jerry Rothwell Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida Reviewed by Maria McFadden Maffucci ______________________________________ The Reason I Jump is a remarkable film, a powerful documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell, that invites viewers to... Read More →

  Christopher Kaczor (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, paperback, 236 pages, $30) Reviewed by John Grondelski ______________________________________ In his enlightening book Disputes in Bioethics: Abortion, Euthanasia, and Other Controversies, Christopher Kaczor,... Read More →

  Charles J. Chaput, OFM, Cap. (Henry Holt, 2021, 272 pages, hardcover, $25.99) Reviewed by Brian Caulfield __________________________________________ When he began writing, Archbishop Charles Chaput could not know that Things Worth Dying For would be released in a time of... Read More →