Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

New York Bill Would Erase ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ From State Law

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | June 29, 2026 |

“By creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.” ― Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2393 On the last working day of its session this month, the New York State Legislature…

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Sons and Daughters, Not Products: The Morality of Embryonic Gene Editing

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | June 22, 2026 |

“Genetic manipulation becomes arbitrary and unjust when it reduces life to an object, when it forgets that it is dealing with a human subject, capable of intelligence and freedom, worthy of respect whatever may be their limitations; or when it treats this person in terms of criteria not founded on the integral reality of the…

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