Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Baby Gabriel and the Abortion Clause: The Dark Reality of Surrogacy

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | August 24, 2026 |

On Wednesday, August 12, a baby boy was born three weeks early in a hospital near Dallas. This is hardly an unusual event. However, that this particular child was born was a near miracle. Baby Gabriel had been the target of a conspiracy against his life that nearly resulted in his destruction, and which has…

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Learning to Be Men: Why Young Men Need Present Fathers

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | August 17, 2026 |

Earlier this month, the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) published a survey of two thousand American men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine. The results are a resounding affirmation of the problem I began to delineate in last week’s column, i.e. a crisis of masculinity that is pushing men into the orbit of toxic,…

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