Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

A Booming Fertility Industry and its Objectification of Children

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | December 29, 2025 |

Two major reports this week have drawn attention to the horrors of the commercial surrogacy industry. On Dec. 13, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an exposé on Chinese videogame billionaire Xu Bo, who has allegedly fathered more than 100 children using the services of paid surrogates. Bo has done this not in one of…

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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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