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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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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By Any Other Name

  The Blessed Mother. The Virgin Mary. Holy Mary, Mother of God. The mother of Jesus is renowned under these titles and many, many more, and the Church Fathers, among theologians and believers across the ages, have held to the idea that the...
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The Moral Deception of “Artificial” Life

  While debates about the ethics of artificial intelligence are raging, a more insidious form of artificiality is sneaking under the radar of the Christian community. Like AI, this new technological effort is based on lies and...
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ABORTION, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICS

  Sadly, death by abortion has always been around. In the ancient world, abortion was prevalent enough that the Hippocratic Oath had to be composed and administered to guide medical doctors away from taking innocent, preborn human lives. In...
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Robots and Clones and Humans

  The Human Life Review has a long-standing interest in identifying and encouraging pro-human influences in our culture. I think of them as signs that in the long run, reality comes through. To be anti-abortion or anti-euthanasia, for...
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God Adopts Little Girls Too

  This text was originally posted on this website Dec 30, 2024 ___________________________________________________   In the ancient world, baby girls were in effect disposable. Women were necessary to produce the next generation, but they...
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