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  . . . . Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: . . . myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” _____________________________________________________________ One... Read More →

  I should imagine that everybody here, without exception, has been to many, many such meetings; at least meetings that roughly fall under the umbrella of pro-life concern. And one of the most important things, I think, for all of us to remind ourselves of—and to be reminded... Read More →

To begin: Good for the United States Supreme Court! Very good for the United States Supreme Court! In fact, glory be, and the bar’s open, folks. I find it impossible, though you never know in our present chaotic age, to see how the court could have negated Tennessee’s right as a... Read More →

On February 18, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order looking to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). In the order, the president first acknowledges the infertility crisis faced by many couples in the United States and then offers the following... Read More →

The day the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center was announced in June of 2022, I was on a 24-hour shift at my hospital in Indiana, where I work as an obstetric hospitalist, serving women who have been admitted either for labor and delivery or due... Read More →

In an address he gave in 2001 at a conference co-hosted by this journal, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus told attendees: “We are signed on for the duration and the duration is the entirety of the human drama, for the conflict between what John Paul II calls the culture of life and the... Read More →

As I write, news accounts of the pope’s early-morning death on April 21 still ricochet around the internet. This bit from the Wall Street Journal: “Pope Francis, who sought to refocus the Catholic Church on promoting social and economic justice rather than traditional moral... Read More →

[Margaret Hickey, a freelance columnist, writes for the Irish Dominican publication, Alive, and reviews for the Irish monthly magazine Position Papers. The following was originally posted April 29, 2025, on the Human Life Review’s website.] ___________________________________... Read More →

[Julia Duin is a longtime investigative journalist and author. The following article was published on Religion Unplugged (www.religionunplugged.com) on October 24, 2024, and is reprinted with the author’s permission.] __________________ When Mariella Aitana Guerrero was born on a... Read More →

I Recently, I attended the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, and was struck by the enthusiasm in certain quarters for what the guest speaker— Vice President JD Vance—might portend for improved relations between the American Church and the American State. Of course, in... Read More →