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Protecting Africa’s Youth: The Hidden Cost of Western Aid in Zimbabwe

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / December 18, 2025 /

Monica Gatsi and Veronica Chawasemerwa, long-time HLI missionaries working in Zimbabwe, join us to discuss their mission to bring chastity education to youth in rural villages. Zimbabwe’s youth are increasingly targeted by well-funded Western organizations that offer humanitarian aid—such as textbooks, clean water, and food—while simultaneously promoting contraception, abortion, and anti-family ideologies. We discuss how…

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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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China’s Birth Rate Crisis: A Self-Imposed Problem with No Easy Fix

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / December 11, 2025 /

Fr. Shenan Boquet discusses China’s severe birth rate crisis and why efforts to reverse population decline are failing. Drawing from decades of pro-life work, Fr. Boquet connects China’s demographic collapse to deep cultural, moral, and structural issues also seen across Western nations. The conversation explores the legacy of China’s one-child policy, the rise of IVF…

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The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Incomparable Value of Human Life

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / December 8, 2025 /

“Hear and let it penetrate your hearts, my dear little ones. Let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you; let nothing alter your heart or your countenance. Do not fear vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here, your Mother? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Is…

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The Crisis of Modernity & the Cure of Tradition

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / December 4, 2025 /

In this episode, Austin Peck shares his conversion to the Catholic Faith; offers reflections on truth, culture, and modernity; and discusses the new project from the creators of Mass of the Ages entitled Discover Tradition. Austin Peck shares how a 15-year search for truth led him from evangelical Protestantism into the Catholic Church. He describes…

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Assisted Suicide Laws Fueling a Culture of Death

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / December 1, 2025 /

Attempts to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia are underway in several countries around the world. This includes France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Ireland. Unfortunately, the pro-death movement seems to be gaining a certain amount of momentum.  Just a few days ago, however, citizens of one country where lawmakers had already legalized assisted suicide pushed…

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Global Pro-Life Victories in 2025

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / November 27, 2025 /

In this special Thanksgiving episode, we sit down with Michelle Francis, Human Life International’s Mission Network Manager, to look back at 2025’s biggest global pro-life victories and the inspiring stories behind them. Michelle Francis manages our missionary network across the world and brings powerful firsthand updates from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and even war-torn…

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The Rapid Collapse of Gender Ideology

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / November 24, 2025 /

In the past year or two, evidence has quickly been mounting that the gender insanity that swept over our culture in the past decade is in rapid retreat. The latest evidence comes from three different surveys. One survey of nearly 60,000 students from 250 of the top American universities, showed that the number of students…

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Stopping Divorce in the Philippines & Restoring Hope for Couples

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / November 20, 2025 /

Dr. Ligaya Acosta, HLI’s Regional Director for Asia and Oceania, discusses the growing push to legalize divorce in the Philippines. Right now, the Philippines is facing immense pressure from Western governments, foreign-funded NGOs, and pro-divorce activists to legalize divorce. On this episode, Dr. Ligaya Acosta explains why the Filipino people overwhelmingly reject divorce, how outside…

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The Fight Against the Ideology of Designer Babies

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / November 17, 2025 /

“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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