Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

An Encouraging Return to Reason: American Medical Organizations Warn against “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | February 9, 2026 |

The amount of positive news that I have had the pleasure of reporting to you in recent months is quite astonishing. It is giving me hope. Last week, I told you about how pro-euthanasia and assisted suicide measures are stalling in several nations in Europe, as opponents are raising significant concerns about how such laws…

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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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