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NEWSworthy: Matt Lamb

Congressional Bill Would Protect Preborn Babies from Abortion under 14th Amendment

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The Gangs of Constantinople

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Fr. Gerald Murray

"God first, me Second."

NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O'Hara

Michigan Legislator Sterilizes Herself to Avoid Pregnancy in State Where Abortion Legal Up to Birth

NEWSworthy: Matt Lamb

Planned Parenthood of Illinois Closes Four Centers . . . That Don’t Offer Abortions

BLOG: Diane Moriarty

Over the Counter Counterintuitive

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Rev. George Brooks

Pastoral Reflection for Lent 2025

BLOG: Brian Caulfield

Baseball for All

Pastoral Reflections: Tara L. Jernigan

Saved But Not Yet Safe

NEWSworthy: John M. Grondelski

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

NEWSworthy: Bernadette Patel

NEWSworthy: After Teenager is Coerced into Abortion, New York Shields Abortionists from Liability

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Arkansas Attorney General Rejects ‘Misleading’ Abortion Ballot Proposal

    The attorney general of Arkansas rejected a “misleading” 2024 election ballot proposal that could practically eliminate pro-life protections. Attorney General Tim Griffin asked activist Steve Nichols to “redesign” his proposed constitutional amendment because of...
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What Does ‘Abortion’ Mean? Many People Don’t Know

  Most people don’t agree on what the word “abortion” means, a new study finds. The Guttmacher Institute collected responses from over 2,000 surveys on the subject. Participants were given multiple vignettes and asked if the situation described an abortion. Even when the...
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Toby’s World

  I have a cousin who was born with a severe mental handicap and has been institutionalized since infancy. At the end of June, my cousin—let’s call him Toby—turned fifty. I don’t think any physician who examined him expected him to live to ten let alone all these years....
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Pastoral Reflections

Pro-Life Extravagance

    In recent years, I’ve become fascinated with the use of “extravagance” as an expression of Christian spirituality. While the word has negative connotations of waste or indulgence, Jesus often invokes fiscal extravagance positively: the forgiveness of great debts,...
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