Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Culture of Death Advances in UK

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | July 14, 2025 |

“God’s mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks — the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey’s end — because each bears Christ’s face… No one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person.”  ― Pope Leo XIV A little over two…

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A Quiet Genocide: New Eugenics and Down Syndrome

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | July 7, 2025 |

Many people think that the eugenics movement perished with the death of Adolf Hitler and the end of his Third Reich. They couldn’t be more wrong. In his campaign for racial purity, Hitler rounded up and executed millions of Jews, as well as people with physical or mental disabilities, gypsies, and other unwanted individuals deemed…

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