Christians Should Be More Concerned about the Rights of Others Than Their Own
By Mark Pickup
A hallmark of the modern age is an obsession with individual rights. It seems that every other day somebody is demanding his or her rights.
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The Terrible Consequences of Forced Abortion of the Disabled
By Nancy Flanders
U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) candidate Geoffrey Clarke recently sparked outrage by calling for the forced abortions of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome, spina bifida, or any “similar syndrome which, if it is born, will render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family.”
Secular Second Thoughts on the Sexual Revolution
By Russell Shaw
The disruptive results for individuals and society spawned by the revolution in attitudes and behavior regarding sex, marriage, family, and childbearing that erupted a half-century ago have become too obvious to ignore.
The Language of Life
By Denise Hunnell, M.D.
Planned Parenthood has seen the polling data and is backing away from the term “pro-choice.” This is not surprising.
The Future Is Now
By John Stonestreet
In the 1997 film Gattaca, Vincent, the narrator and protagonist, tells the audience that he will “never understand what possessed [his] mother to put her faith in God’s hands, rather than her local geneticist.”
A Holy Week Reflection
By Jim Sedlak
Twenty-eight years ago this month, 10 people got together in a classroom at St. Columba school in Hopewell Junction, New York, to begin an effort that continues to this day.
Those Catholic Women Who Use Contraception
By Jennifer Fulwiler
When I was giving a talk early last year, two women in the front row caught my eye.
Porn Not the Only Industry Commodifying Women
By Chelsea Zimmerman
We’re all well aware of the fact that the “adult entertainment” industry rakes in major profits by exploiting women and their bodies, but they aren’t the only ones.
Peter’s Story
By Mary Kellett
When I was 19 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound of my baby revealed markers for a condition called trisomy 18.
JFK’s ‘Speech on Faith’ — The Conscience: False Dichotomy (Part II)
By Fr. Gerald Goodrum, S.T.L.
Perhaps the most notorious and oft-quoted example of Senator Kennedy’s miscomprehension of a well-formed conscience and the proper disposition of a person of faith from his “Ministerial Association Speech” is the following statement
JFK’s ‘Speech on Faith’ — The Conscience: False Dichotomy
By Fr. Gerald Goodrum, S.T.L
Germane to a discussion on conscience is John F. Kennedy, who, as a politician, ironically promoted an arguably anti-Catholic mentality in several of his views on the moral conscience and the role of religion in the public square.
The Worth of a Human Life
By Rob Gasper
It is difficult to wrap our heads around abortion and what it means on a societal level.