Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Marriage and the Family: God’s Remedy to the Culture of Death

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | January 5, 2026 |

“The Family Remains the Privileged Locus of a Culture of Life” Christmas is, I think it is fair to say, one of the most beautiful of all the liturgical celebrations of the year. Whether or not it is the greatest is sometimes a cause for debate. Many a theologian will argue that Easter trumps Christmas.…

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A Booming Fertility Industry and its Objectification of Children

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | December 29, 2025 |

Two major reports this week have drawn attention to the horrors of the commercial surrogacy industry. On Dec. 13, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an exposé on Chinese videogame billionaire Xu Bo, who has allegedly fathered more than 100 children using the services of paid surrogates. Bo has done this not in one of…

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