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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable

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Virginia’s Radical Abortion Amendment Could Violate Parental Rights

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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and Malcolm Muggeridge

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Let’s Not Bring Back Smoking

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Answering the Early-Morning Phone Call

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Kentucky Sues Group Advertising Illegal Abortion Drugs At State Fair

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The Children We Are Asked to Forget

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Fulton Sheen’s Answer to Assisted Suicide

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The Mother of all Misdirects

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Addressing Abortion in the Sanctuary

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Pro-Abortion Doctor Admits Women Haven’t Been Harmed By Roe v. Wade Reversal

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With Pro-Abortion Speech Law, New Jersey’s War on Women Continues  

   New Jersey Governor Mike Sherrill signed a bill on Aug. 20 that many fear will be used to undermine the First Amendment and prohibit Americans from praying outside abortion facilities.    According to the Catholic News Agency, the bill will implement a sort of “bubble”...
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Surrogate Refuses to Abort Baby with Heart Defect, Saving His Life

  Surrogate mother McKenna West gave birth to baby boy Gabriel on Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the midst of a hurricane of legal battles. West was 20 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound revealed that Gabriel had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a serious heart condition that...
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There’s No “I” in “A.I.”

  Let me stipulate that I have never knowingly used A.I. and always decline its tempting offer to summarize a long document or redesign a web page. So if you are a coder or IT expert, or anyone who has ventured deeper into the artificial world than I have, feel free to...
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Blessed Fulton Sheen, Pray for Us

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) will be beatified on September 24th at a Mass in St. Louis, Missouri. This is the next to final step in the process of canonization. The healing of a newborn infant, James Fulton Engstrom, who gave no sign of life for almost one hour,...
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Abortion Looming in Ireland

When last I wrote for this publication, Ireland had been through a huge national and...
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Why Roe/Casey Is Still Unsettled

In his first public criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v....
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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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In a Basin Clearly

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