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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The Family: The Solution to “Collectivism” and the Degradations of Radical Individualism

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | January 19, 2026 |

“The socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home.” ― Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, no. 14 On January 1, New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was inaugurated. Mamdani has repeatedly described himself as a “democratic socialist,” and in…

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