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The 2025 Great Defender of Life Dinner honoring Dr. Christina Francis and Saluting Anne Conlon

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How the Church Can Be the Village

Pastoral Reflection: Rev. George Brooks

Reflection for Pentecost

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Washington Post Tries and Fails to Debunk Study on Mifepristone Dangers

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The Mystical Stock Fund of Philomena Colaianni

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The Sermon on the Mount

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Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood

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Making Abortion Absolute

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A Way of Escape

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Yonkers Woman Learns Abortion is Not the ‘Quick Fix’ She Thought

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Negligent Homicide and the Butterfly Effect

Murder begins as a thought. Homicide, the broader category that includes murder, begins as either a thought or the failure to take thought—that is, the failure to take care. Let’s say I was texting on my phone while driving a car. If in my distraction I hit a pedestrian who then...
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Pastoral Reflections

When the Church is silent, we incur guilt before God (When the Church is Silent, # 6 of 10)

  You shall not murder (Exod 20:13).   Let’s take for granted the obvious—abortion kills a human baby—and explore what may not be entirely clear—the responsibility that the Church bears in a world of abortion on demand. There is an obscure ritual commanded in the Old Testament,...
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