Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Paul Ehrlich is Dead, but His Anti-life Legacy Lives

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | March 23, 2026 |

On Friday, March 13, Paul Ehrlich – Stanford biologist, celebrity doomsayer, and author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb – died at 93 in Palo Alto, California. In their obituary, the New York Times described Ehrlich as “an eminent ecologist and population scientist” whose predictions were merely “premature.” Which is surely one of the…

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Restoring the Natural Definition of Marriage

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | March 16, 2026 |

This Thursday, March 19, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and patron of the Universal Church. Of all the saints, Joseph stands as the model of faithful fatherhood: the man whom God entrusted with the protection of the Holy Family, and who fulfilled that mission with quiet,…

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