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Leo and the Label “Prolife”

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Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be

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Dasein ohne Leben (or “Existence without Life”): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest

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Judge Rejects Colorado’s Abortion Pill Reversal Ban

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The Goodness of Life, Even Unto Death

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Homily for the 2026 National Prayer Vigil for Life

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NEWSworthy: Gwen Stefani Criticized for Promoting Christian Prayer App Because It Doesn’t Promote Abortion

  Few things are as priceless as American celebrities remembering that Christian values actually mean something. Several celebrities learned this the hard way last week when “A Bit Fruity” podcast host Matt Bernstein mocked Catholic pop singer Gwen Stefani for promoting the...
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Rural Illinois Town Saw ‘Economic Opportunity’ In Becoming Abortion Hub

  Carbondale, Illinois, a rural town near the Missouri border, has become an abortion hub for women in nearby states, and at least one city employee saw that as a potential “economic opportunity.” Abortion facilities in Carbondale killed 11,000 innocent preborn babies last...
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  St. Augustine is a towering figure in Western civilization, with his Confessions, a foundational work not only of theology and philosophy but of literature and psychology as well. The book could be described as the first Christian autobiography: Augustine wrote it when he...
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Catechesis of Despair

  It is just another bleary January Monday morning. In my best internal Eeyore voice, I find myself saying “well, here we are again, my least favorite month of the year.” I could add any number of thoughts to that, all of them dreary: How grey it is outside, how much the...
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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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President Obama and “Black Genocide”

Barack Obama has made history in two unprecedentedly dramatic ways: He is the first...
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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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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade (Fall, 2004)

  The infamous Roe v. Wade1 decision relies directly and indirectly on the work...
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