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

    A Virginia high school is investigating claims that staffers helped facilitate abortions for two teen girls without their parents’ knowledge. Fairfax County Schools launched the investigation following media reporting on the controversy. However, the whistleblower...
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Thoughts on Baby Thaddeus

  You’d have to search pretty deep in the news to find the story about Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, born July 26.  If you do find the story, it’ll likely be festooned with language about “miracle baby” or curiosity click-bait about “world’s oldest baby.”  Just don’t expect much...
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The Billion-Footed Beast and I

  A long time ago, when I attended community college, I’d show up for classes I liked and either drop or take “incompletes” for those I didn’t. Later, I drifted over to State U, where, bolstered by stupidity and pride, I tried to fashion a degree program unaligned with...
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Pastoral Reflections

No Empire beyond the Seas

  I have the privilege of composing this reflection while residing in Tanzania. A colleague and I are working on a series of projects for the Archdiocese of Mwanza, which is on the shore of Lake Victoria, in the north-central part of the country. Like many Africans,...
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In a Basin Clearly

Friday, 6:00 p.m., September 30th. Three deliveries and two hours of sleep in the...
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Hijacking Immigration?

    The myth that human beings are “overpopulating” the earth, which has...
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Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? A Symposium

  The Right That Makes Women Grieve George McKenna Every so often, if only to...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

   “No issue in U.S. history has produced such an impressive and sustained outpouring...
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