Blog: Brian Caulfield

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Faithful Reflections: Brian Caulfield

Life Advice: It's all Greek to me

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State Litigation Seeks to Curb Mail-Order Abortion

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To Kill or Not To Kill

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Striving for the Smell of Heaven

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The Fiction of Disposable Relationships

FAITHFUL REFLECTIONS: Rev. George G. Brooks

This Easter, Expect the Best

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A Tragedy in Georgia Needs a Federal Response

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International Planned Parenthood Slashes Nearly 1,000 Jobs Due to Trump Funding Cuts

  The International Planned Parenthood Federation is shedding jobs left and right due to President Donald Trump’s prohibitions on subsidizing the abortion industry. The group said “the Trump Administration’s funding cuts have forced 34 of International Planned...
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Pro-Lifers: There Is No Flexibility on Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

  President Donald Trump seems to have underestimated the importance of the Hyde Amendment to the pro-life movement. But on taxpayer funding for abortion, pro-lifers are not budging. During a speech at the Kennedy Center, President Trump recently told Republicans that they...
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The False “Source of Life”: Nazi Surrogacy and Eugenics

  Lebensborn is a German word meaning “the source of life.” Understood literally, it sounds wonderful. Given its origins in the German Third Reich, however, its meaning is somewhat more ambiguous. Like in all totalitarian systems, name and content are often very different....
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Faithful Reflections

Why Would Mary McAleese Attack Infant Baptism?

  In Shakespeare’s last play “The Tempest,” the island creature Caliban is enslaved by the exiled Duke of Milan who teaches him speech. Caliban used his new skill to curse his master, saying, “you taught me language and my profit on’t is I know how to curse.” This story of...
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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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BOOKNOTES: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS

  WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS O. Carter...
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What I Saw at the Abortion: The doctor observed, the man saw.

I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all...
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