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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Fulton Sheen’s Answer to Assisted Suicide

  This essay was originally published on October 2, 2026 at Stepping Out of the Boat, Ed Mechmann’s Public Policy Blog. It is re-posted with permission of the author. ________________________________________________________ Last week,...
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Addressing Abortion in the Sanctuary

This article was originally posted on Aug 5, 2024  ____________________________________________________ Most pastors and most priests seldom speak about abortion from the pulpit during the weekly worship service.  Why are pastors and priests so...
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Blessed Fulton Sheen, Pray for Us

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) will be beatified on September 24th at a Mass in St. Louis, Missouri. This is the next to final step in the process of canonization. The healing of a newborn infant, James Fulton Engstrom, who gave...
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God Sees Her

  This piece was originally posted on Aug 21, 2023  ________________________________________________________________ “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me” (Genesis 16:13). Recently, I was speaking to a friend over lunch, a woman...
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What To Do About Your Unplanned Pregnancy?

  I am a retired pastor. And you know what they say (or should say) about us retired pastors: “Once a pastor, always a pastor.” Well, we pastors tend to be practical in our ministries. In fact, we Methodist pastors tend to be extremely...
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The Cries of a Newborn

  Locke is a film from a dozen years ago, a minor classic. It is also a life-affirming surprise. The film opens with Locke (Tom Hardy) getting into his BMW at the end of a day of work. In the dark he sets out for London, a two hour drive,...
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The Mystery of the Cross

  In the year 1219, Pope Honorius III gave the Roman basilica of Santa Sabina on the crown of the Aventine hill to Saint Dominic, to be a church of the Order that Dominic had founded—as it remains today, the Dominican “mother church” in...
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RFAs: Making Christian Ethics and Common Sense Unconstitutional

  This article was originally published at CatholicCulture.org on June 18, 2026 (link). It is reprinted with permission from Catholic World News. ________________________________________________________________ As of June, 2026 ten states...
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Seeing God’s Hand in All Things

  Pro-lifers are well aware that the defense of innocent human life is a never-ending struggle. We are grateful to God for victories over the culture of death, yet there are also many defeats along the way. The self-evident truth that it is...
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