Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Beyond Choice: The Brutality of Late-Term Abortion

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | December 15, 2025 |

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ―  Edmund Burke Almost exactly two years ago, Canadian pro-life activist Alissa Golob walked into four different abortion facilities, in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. At the time, Golob was 22 weeks pregnant. Inspired by the work of Lila Rose,…

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Sons and Daughters, Not Products: The Morality of Embryonic Gene Editing

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | June 22, 2026 |

“Genetic manipulation becomes arbitrary and unjust when it reduces life to an object, when it forgets that it is dealing with a human subject, capable of intelligence and freedom, worthy of respect whatever may be their limitations; or when it treats this person in terms of criteria not founded on the integral reality of the…

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