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On Rape, Prolifers should Show Humility and Heroics

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Rev. Victor Lee Austin

Patience and the Art of Dying

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The March for Life and the Meaning of Life

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Leo and the Label “Prolife”

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New York Governor Wants $65 Million For Abortionists, Planned Parenthood

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Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth

Dasein ohne Leben (or “Existence without Life”): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest

NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O'Hara

Judge Rejects Colorado’s Abortion Pill Reversal Ban

BLOG: Jason Morgan

The Goodness of Life, Even Unto Death

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Fr. Robert A. Brungs

Praise

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Homily for the 2026 National Prayer Vigil for Life

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Black pro-life Democrat: “My community isn’t a monolith”

Abortion advocates usually paint a caricature of pro-lifers as being only white conservatives. But the pro-life camp is much broader than opponents would like to think. In Connecticut this week, several Democrats and minority members of the state legislature from the Black and...
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What Colombia’s Recent Law Reveals About Abortion Campaigns in Latin America

  For decades, the nations of Latin America have been the targets of a sustained, well-funded campaign to legalize abortion. It has come under various guises—to promote population control, improve reproductive health, enhance the equality of women, end unsafe abortions, and...
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The Language We Have Lost

  IMHO* Yes, I confess to learning a few texting terms to communicate with younger people at the office. But most of the time, in my capacity as vice postulator of the sainthood cause of Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, I am immersed in language...
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Pastoral Reflections

Martin Luther King—In His Own Words

    In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, I thought I’d offer some quotes from his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” written from a prison cell to the clergy in 1963. Parts of the letter have become well known, such as King’s insistence that “Injustice...
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