A Pastor’s Reflections was created in 2015 by Reverend W. Ross Blackburn, who has been a pastor in the Anglican Church in North America for 20 years, and a longtime contributor to the Human Life Review. It was then expanded to Pastoral Reflections, with contributions from a variety of clerics and religious who write on abortion and other grave moral transgressions that not only hurt individuals but deform the culture and threaten religious liberty. We are expanding again, this time to include the lay faithful, in our new feature Faithful Reflections. We look forward to continued wisdom from our pastors as well as thoughtful reflections from those for whom faith is foundational. 

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Holy Family

  When a young person joins a religious order, his or her parents often have a sense of loss: they feel that they are having to give up their child; this child has declined to carry on their line; in a sense, this child has left their...
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New Adventures with the Lord

  Our parish grammar school held the 8th grade graduation ceremony last week in our church. This is the regular practice at St. Joseph of Yorkville School. Rather than use the school auditorium, diplomas are conferred in the house of God to...
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More Than a Clump of Cells

    I beg the indulgence of my prolife readers as I navigate some twists of Christian theology to make a point about our shared affirmation of the personhood of the child in the womb. All Christians observe some form of celebration ...
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“My Voice, My Choice” and the Silence Beneath It

    This article was originally published on March 17, 2026 by Catholic Exchange.   Europe is once again rallying around a slogan: My Voice, My Choice. The phrase has recently returned to the center of European political debate,...
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Enduring Courage

    Across southwestern Kansas back in the mid-1960s, several rock bands played the small towns’ school gyms and National Guard Armories. Their names make you smile: The Blue Things, The Fabulous Flippers, King Midas and the Mufflers,...
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A Prayer for the Vulnerable

  This reflection was originally posted on October 21, 2024.  ___________________________________________________ Sometimes it is difficult to know how to pray, and we are helped by the words of others. The following is a prayer for the...
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The Ascension of Jesus

  Later this week, Catholics and many Protestants will celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, and you may hear these readings from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians: May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know … what is...
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The Logic of Abortion

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply...
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Doubling Down on Dignity, for Life

    The struggle to defend human life in all its developmental stages and biological conditions, particularly for defenseless and discarded persons, will not find its footing in the drifting sands of uncertain moral intuitions that...
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