Spirit & Life Blog

Radical Abortion Bill Could Undo Pro-Life Progress

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / June 21, 2021 /
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During a year when one of the most pro-abortion presidential administrations in history is pushing abortion every chance that it gets, it can be strangely comforting to read abortion-related news coming from pro-abortion organizations in the country. Take, for instance, the Guttmacher Institute, one of the most powerful and extreme pro-abortion agencies on the planet.…

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Protect Our Children from Exploitation and Pride Month

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / June 14, 2021 /

For Catholics, June is the month of the Sacred Heart, in which we recall and celebrate Christ’s redeeming, self-sacrificial love for us. For the world, however, June is now Pride Month – a month-long hedonistic carnival in celebration of a debased concept of “love”: one that in many cases reduces love to nothing more than…

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Birth Rates Are Plummeting in China and the U.S.

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / June 7, 2021 /

“Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the begetting and educating of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute very substantially to the welfare of their parents.” ─ Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, no. 50 Politically speaking, the United States and…

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Reject Eugenics, and Instead Build a Civilization of Love

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 31, 2021 /

“Every child who a woman expects in her womb is a gift that changes a family’s history: the life of fathers and mothers, grandparents and of brothers and sisters. That child needs to be welcomed, loved and nurtured. Always!” ─ Pope Francis, World Down Syndrome Day 2021 In 2014, the famous scientist and militant atheist…

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Roe Must Go: Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Roe v. Wade

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 24, 2021 /
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Is the tyranny of Roe v. Wade in the United States about to fall? For the first time in years, pro-lifers have serious reason to hope that the aim towards which they have worked for so many decades – the end of Roe v. Wade – will finally come about, and as soon as next…

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A Day of Prayer and Reparation for the Murder and Abuse of Unborn Children

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 17, 2021 /

“In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which might conform us to the world’s way of thinking (cf. Rom 12:2). We must be in the world but not of the world (cf. Jn 15:19; 17:16), drawing our strength from Christ, who…

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Gain Heart: Pro-Life Progress at State Levels

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 10, 2021 /
Judge's gavel on table in office

The drumbeat of bad news coming from the Biden administration can certainly be discouraging for pro-life and pro-family activists. It seems that hardly a week passes without some horrific new announcement from the administration, pushing abortion or some other assault on basic moral truths. However, as I have emphasized so often in the past, it’s…

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Vatican Conference Presents Disturbing Lineup of Speakers

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 3, 2021 /
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“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.” ─ Pope St. Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, no. 41 Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has repeatedly warned against the temptation to make the Church into just another non-profit organization. The Church, he…

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Stop the Industry of Death and Exploitation

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / April 29, 2021 /

In recent years, pro-lifers have exposed the gruesome, ongoing practice of harvesting and buying and selling the body parts of aborted children for medical research. A series of undercover videos released by pro-life researcher David Daleiden showed abortionists and executives of biomedical companies callously describing how they obtain the bodies, and haggling over the prices…

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At-Home Abortions Are Not Pro-Woman

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / April 29, 2021 /
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Just a few days ago, a 23-year-old pro-abortion leader in Argentina died after a legal abortion. Argentina only legalized abortion at the end of last year, but abortion has already claimed the life of a young woman, not to mention thousands of unborn children. According to Live Action, María del Valle González López went to…

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