“What is urgently called for,” wrote Pope St. John Paul II in the great pro-life encyclical Evangelium Vitae, “is a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life.” (EV, ¶95) The vast and multifarious pro-life movement, with its ever-expanding networks of crisis pregnancy centers, mobile ultrasound units, . . . Read more
Preying Upon the Young Disturbing new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlight the grave dangers that the transgender ideology poses to children. A new survey of 131,901 public school students has found that nearly 2 percent of students in grades 9-12 identify as “transgender.” That translates into a staggering number of . . . Read more
Come to Me All Who Are Weary “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me.” — John 14:1 Holy Mother Church is in the midst of a dark night. Scarcely a day goes by where I do not read a news article about the Church and Her ministers . . . Read more
The Church Must Not Be Afraid “A good shepherd, a pastor after God’s heart, is the greatest treasure which the good Lord can grant to a parish, and one of the most precious gifts of divine mercy.” — St. John Vianney (The Curé of Ars) In the most profound way possible, the ordination of a . . . Read more
Abortion Survivors and Late-Term Abortions The pro-abortion movement desperately wants everybody to stop talking about two things: late-term abortions and abortion survivors. If you listened to the pro-abortion talking points, you’d think that the first (late-term abortions) only ever take place for the rarest, gravest, and most life-threatening reasons, and that the second (abortion survivors) . . . Read more
No Room for Apathy President Donald Trump echoed the thoughts of millions of Americans last week during his State of the Union Address, when he highlighted the grisly push for late-term abortion sweeping parts of the country in recent weeks. “There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her . . . Read more
Governor Northam and Delegate Tran Expose the Naked Truth “Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.” — St. Teresa of Calcutta The first wave of outrage against New York’s extreme new law, permitting abortion until birth in some cases, had . . . Read more
Gov. Cuomo Terms Unadulterated Evil “Light” & “Progress” I can’t imagine a more horrible irony. On Tuesday, January 22, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered that the spire of the One World Trade Center be lit pink. The reason why? To celebrate the passage of a new law that radically liberalizes abortion in New York . . . Read more
All Life is Sacred “Woe to you if you do not succeed in defending life.” — Pope St. John Paul II, 1993 Denver Colorado Every day in our country, thousands of pregnant women enter so-called medical “clinics.” When they emerge hours later, they are no longer pregnant. Their babies, so recently living and growing . . . Read more
Tucker Carlson of Fox News, Meet Bishop Thomas Olmsted A pair of conservative authors writing in The Atlantic this week have highlighted the stark marriage statistics in middle-class America. “[D]ramatic increases in nonmarital childbearing, divorce, and family instability among the working class mean that only about 55 percent of children with working-class mothers will reach . . . Read more
