Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

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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A Christian Vision of Family Life: Seeing Children as a Gift, Not a Burden

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | January 12, 2026 |

The 1992 book Children of Men (later turned into a blockbuster film) is set in the year 2027, just one year from now. It tells the story of a world in the throes of an infertility epidemic. For two decades, the entire human race has been rendered infertile, for unknown reasons. Not a single child…

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