A Pastor’s Reflections was created in 2015 by Reverend W. Ross Blackburn, Rector of Christ the King, an Anglican Church in Boone, North Carolina, and longtime contributor to the Human Life Review. Now the feature, renamed Pastoral Reflections, will carry contributions from a variety of clerics and religious who, along with Rev. Blackburn, will meditate on abortion and other grave moral transgressions that not only hurt individuals but deform the culture and threaten religious liberty.

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Leo and the Label “Prolife”

  Like you, I’ve heard my share of sophomoric pro-choice jibes. “If only prolifers were concerned about children after they’re born!” Or, “If you were really prolife you’d be protesting the death penalty!” You, the reader, likely know many...
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Dasein ohne Leben (or “Existence without Life”): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest

  The Nazis produced powerful propaganda. Among their many propaganda products was “Dasein ohne Leben,” which is German for “Existence without Life.” The original film and its copies were lost at the end of World War II.  What follows is...
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Praise

  This article is a reprint from the Bulletin of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST), Vol. 39, No.1 (2008), p.5-7. For more about ITEST, see https://www.faithscience.org....
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Homily for the 2026 National Prayer Vigil for Life

  Your Eminences and Excellencies, my brother priests, consecrated men and women, dear brothers and sisters in Christ. It is a deep honor and privilege to celebrate this Vigil Mass here at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the...
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Catechesis of Despair

  It is just another bleary January Monday morning. In my best internal Eeyore voice, I find myself saying “well, here we are again, my least favorite month of the year.” I could add any number of thoughts to that, all of them dreary: How...
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Celebrating Babies in Public Spaces

  By the time you read this, my local airline will have abandoned its “open seating” policy of letting people sit wherever they want as they board the plane. The money crunchers have decreed that there are greater profits in being an...
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