Spirit & Life Blog

A Father’s Plea for His Son’s Health

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / February 14, 2022 /
transgender symbol 3D

Abigail Shrier is an independent journalist who has been doing yeoman’s labor in exposing the dangers and extremism of transgender ideology. In 2020 she published the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, which is one of the most important works discussing the transgender phenomenon. In recent months, she has been warning about…

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The Souls Outside the Cameras in China

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / February 7, 2022 /
candles

As the winter Olympics get underway in Beijing, human rights activists are attempting to raise awareness of the ongoing human rights abuses conducted on a vast scale in the communist nation. Among the tragedies currently unfolding in China are what many experts have called a genocide being perpetrated against the Uyghur Muslim population, the repression…

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When Freedoms are Charged as Crimes

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 31, 2022 /
Standing Against Transgender Ideology

At some point in the future, will it become illegal in our country simply to quote the Bible? That might sound like a paranoid question, but recent events suggest that it’s one that we ought to take seriously. Take the case of Päivi Räsänen. Räsänen is a former Member of Parliament in Finland, who served…

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Choosing Adventure, Despite the Risks

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 24, 2022 /
child hugging pregnant mother

Pope Francis caused a great deal of consternation among population control activists when he recently called out the growing trend of replacing human babies with what are sometimes – somewhat nauseatingly – referred to as “fur babies” – i.e. pets. “Today we see a form of selfishness,” said the Pope at a public audience in…

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Dangers to Life in Prenatal Testing

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 17, 2022 /
baby in ultrasound

Modern forms of non-invasive prenatal tests (called NIPT, for short) are growing in popularity, being used by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women every year in the United States alone. These highly profitable tests, which promise parents a glimpse into the future of an unborn child by detecting some type of malformation or…

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Beware the Dangers of TikTok

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 10, 2022 /
teenage girl on her phone in a coffee shop

LGBT extremists are deliberately targeting children with dangerous propaganda using methods that are designed to ensure that the children’s parents know nothing about it. That is the disturbing lesson from two stories that broke over the past few weeks. The first story involves a uproar that broke out at a school in California. Parents there…

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Your Heart Is A Pro-Life Remedy

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 3, 2022 /

The start of a new year is a time to look both backwards and forwards. In looking backwards, we review the past year from the bird’s eye perspective of the present, acknowledging and celebrating the accomplishments achieved, while ruthlessly cataloguing those areas where we fell short. In looking forward, we lay plans for the upcoming…

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Why Wait to Receive Christ’s Peace?

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / December 27, 2021 /
nativity scene

On the night of Christ’s birth, the angels who appeared to the shepherds of Bethlehem sang, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!” Peace. There is something about this word – the sound of it, the feel of it on our tongue – that seems to…

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A Warning About Declining Birth Rates

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / December 20, 2021 /

Time Magazine has just named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as their “Man of the Year.” The Time feature on Musk, the richest man in the world, naturally focuses on Musk’s extraordinary career as the founder and CEO of world-changing corporations like Paypal, Neuralink, SpaceX, and, of course, Tesla. However, Musk has been in the news…

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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: False Mercy

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / December 13, 2021 /
elderly man in bed with someone taking care of him

In a disturbing development, Switzerland has approved a euthanasia device designed to make killing people easier than ever, including in locations where the practice is illegal. The colorful device, with a sleek design that looks like something straight out of a futuristic dystopian movie, was created by euthanasia-enthusiast Dr. Philip Nitschke. The device is called…

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