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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

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Seen but Not Heard

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The Billion-Footed Beast and I

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No Empire beyond the Seas

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Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

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Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

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How To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

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Challenging the Church on Abortion

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New York Pushes Asissted Suicide

The following is a reprint from Ed Mechmann’s blog, “Stepping Out of the Boat,” from April 28. Reprinted with permission. Sadly, the New York State Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act yesterday, April 29th. It now goes to the Senate.   New York has...
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A Modest Proposal? Abort Babies and Save Money on Births, Colorado Argues

    Colorado taxpayers should pay for abortions because it is cheaper than Medicaid covering the cost of birth, supporters are arguing. Legislators are currently working on a bill that “requires the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to cover abortion care...
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The Mystical Stock Fund of Philomena Colaianni

  On a nothing August Saturday, with little more on my mind than the afternoon races at Saratoga, I picked up a copy of the New York Post and headed home to fix myself a sandwich. Lurid crime, political scandal, questionable celebrity antics—I don’t remember what was...
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Pastoral Reflections

The Sermon on the Mount

  The late John Courtney Murray, S.J., once told me that at a convention he attended, a Protestant theologian said to him in a rather worried tone of voice, “I don’t see how we can base a foreign policy on the Sermon on the Mount.” Replied Fr. Murray, “I never thought we...
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