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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

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It's Always Nice to Get a Letter

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Seen but Not Heard

BLOG: Peter Pavia

The Billion-Footed Beast and I

Pastoral Reflections: Fr. David Poecking

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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Thoughts on Baby Thaddeus

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NEWSworthy: The US Rejects ‘International Right to Abortion.’ Surrogacy Should Be Next

  The United States rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Jan. 24. What’s that, you ask?  The declaration is a statement, originally sponsored by the United States in 2020, that was eventually endorsed by 35-plus countries. Its signatories declare that they support...
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NEWSworthy: After Teenager is Coerced into Abortion, New York Shields Abortionists from Liability

  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last week signed into law a bill to protect abortionists. The passage of the law, which will allow physicians to remove their names from prescriptions for abortion-inducing drugs, is in response to a grand jury indictment of Dr. Margaret...
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Media “Gaslighting” and the Popes

  Public opinion inside and outside the Church is split three ways about the kind of leader the Church needs at this defining moment of its history: another Francis (“a continuity candidate”), a pope in the mold of John Paul II or Benedict XVI, or a hybrid, someone between...
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Pastoral Reflections

The Victory of Life

  “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised.” (Lk 24:5-6) The holy women who went to anoint the body of Jesus on the third day after his death found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. Jesus’ body was not there. Two men in...
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