Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

China’s Birth Rate Crisis

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | October 27, 2025 |

A recent headline on an article published by the BBC is astonishing. “China offers parents $1,500 in bid to boost births,” it reads. Wait a minute. China’s Communist government is now paying for couples to have children? The same Communist Party that, for decades, enforced the most brutal population control regime on earth? It’s worth…

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Transgender Dysphoria, Medicine, and True Care: Correcting an Ideological Project Gone Bad

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | May 4, 2026 |

Dr. Karine Khatchadourian is a Canadian pediatric endocrinologist. Over the past twelve years, by her own estimate, she has cared for somewhere between 250 and 300 children who say they are “transgender.” She is the lead author on the first Canadian study, published back in 2014, of how to medically “treat” gender dysphoria in youth,…

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