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NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O’Hara

A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

BLOG: Diane Moriarty

It's Always Nice to Get a Letter

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Tara Jernigan

Seen but Not Heard

BLOG: Peter Pavia

The Billion-Footed Beast and I

Pastoral Reflections: Fr. David Poecking

No Empire beyond the Seas

NEWSworthy: Matt Lamb

Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

NEWSworthy: Matt Lamb

Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

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

BLOG: Brian Caulfield

How To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Paul T. Stallsworth

Challenging the Church on Abortion

NEWSworthy: John Grondelski

Thoughts on Baby Thaddeus

BLOG: Jason Morgan

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The Truth About Pregnancy Centers

  Pro-abortion advocates frequently claim that crisis pregnancy centers are dishonest because they give women facts about pregnancy and try to dissuade them from choosing abortion. Such was the reasoning behind the Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act, an...
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IN MEMORY OF SENATOR JAMES LANE BUCKLEY

  James Lane Buckley died August 18, having passed his 100th birthday last March. The soft-spoken Buckley catapulted to national prominence in November 1970 when, against expectations, he won a U.S. Senate seat from New York on the Conservative Party line, beating out a pair...
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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

Six Political Principles

    This pastoral reflection was outlined on May 31. Ninety years before that day, on May 31, 1934, The Barmen Declaration was adopted by the votes of more than one hundred Protestants—both clergy (pastors and professors) and laity who were assembled at a church in...
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