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Patience and the Art of Dying

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The March for Life and the Meaning of Life

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Leo and the Label “Prolife”

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New York Governor Wants $65 Million For Abortionists, Planned Parenthood

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

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth

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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Even Abortion Advocates Are Tired of Chemical Abortion Lies  

  As the debate over chemical abortion and its accessibility rages on, a new poll is showing that most American voters support stronger restrictions on the dangerous drugs. A recent poll by McLaughlin & Associates discovered that 70% of American voters support...
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Wisconsin Bill Would Clarify Miscarriage Is Different From Abortion

Republican lawmakers are considering a proposal to clarify that medical professionals can remove a miscarried baby without violating state abortion law. The bill would amend state law “to except from the definition of abortion a physician’s performance of a medical procedure or...
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Confessions on Confessions

  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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Celebrating Babies in Public Spaces

  By the time you read this, my local airline will have abandoned its “open seating” policy of letting people sit wherever they want as they board the plane. The money crunchers have decreed that there are greater profits in being an airline where people pay more for...
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Should We “Harvest” Fetal Tissue?

Last summer, a medical ethicist received an unusual phone call from a woman whose...
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