Homily for Epiphany

  At the time of our Lord’s birth, Jews were present in most major cities throughout the known world. This was called the “Diaspora,” which the story of Pentecost refers to in the Book of Acts (2:1-11), where we read that, “Staying in Jerusalem were devout Jews of every...
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What a Web We Weave

  I remember visiting my future wife in her Manhattan office back in the pre-Y2K dark ages, when style guides instructed us to capitalize the words Internet and Website. Working for a tech startup that recruited programmers for other tech startups that were busy adding two...
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Building Resilience and Making Friends with a Pro-Abort

  Lauren Handy, the Director of Activism at Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, is serving a 57-month sentence for rescue activities she participated in at a Washington DC late-term abortion clinic in 2020....
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Nat Hentoff   Veteran journalist Nat Hentoff, our Great Defender of Life honoree in 2005, is a selfprofessed atheist who believes as strongly as fervent religious believers do in the inviolability of human life. In the 1980s Hentoff, a nationally known columnist reporting on...
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Ghosts on the Great Lawn

  You know Erma Bombeck, and how funny she can be. Millions read her syndicated newspaper column regularly. But sometimes she’s not funny. One of her own favorite columns is reprinted from time to time, when she’s on vacation. Thus, last summer, her fans saw again her sober...
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Human Heart and Brain Development

    From its inception when sperm and egg fuse to the pinnacle of adulthood, human life develops according to the intricate craftsmanship of a divine Creator. The unfolding of cells into diverse tissues and the orchestration of complex structures into their correct...
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A Makeover in Human Understanding?

They got me, they got me—and dead to rights, I must acknowledge. I am identified by the management as a Human Life Review friend and contributor of goodness-knows-how-many-years’ standing: grateful to be standing anywhere at this stage of life, in which the competence of people...
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Wyoming Judge Finds ‘Right’ to Abortion in State Constitution

    A Wyoming judge has once again found a reason to block the state’s lifesaving laws. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens said the state constitution prohibits two laws in Wyoming, the Life Act and Medication Abortion Ban. Judge Owens read a “right” for a woman...
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Kamala Harris Rejects Religious Exemptions for Pro-Lifers

    A Kamala Harris presidency poses a grave threat to all Catholics and people of faith. Just this week, Harris scandalized the nation by declining to support conscience protections on abortion. “What concessions would be on the table, religious exemptions, for...
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The New York State Equal Rights Amendment and Religious Liberty

  In November 2024, the voters of New York State will determine whether an “Equal Rights Amendment” is added to the state constitution. The stated goal of this amendment is to ban unjust discrimination based on a broad variety of classes and characteristics. Despite this...
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