Search Results: Poverty

A Return to the Beginning

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / March 14, 2014 /
The Creation of Life, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling

…unjust structures that tolerate or exacerbate extreme, dehumanizing poverty? Faithful Catholics who recognize the absurdity of these questions might be forgiven for wondering why the “pastoral” approach being proposed by…

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Pro-Life Passion Leads Former HLI Staff Member to Postulancy

By Krista Schmid Thomas / November 6, 2014 /
postulant white veil

…vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, the Sisters of Life also take a fourth vow: a promise to protect and enhance the sacredness of all human life. “The pro-life movement…

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Ten Threats to Marriage

By HLI Staff / September 3, 2021 /
wedding bands gold rings

…these children into the world, due to their fragility, and the hunger and poverty they suffer. But children are never a mistake, and their sufferings are only reasons for us…

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Defending the Right to Life at OAS Commission

By Marlene Gillette-Ibern, Esq. / February 16, 2017 /
OAS logo - organization of american states

…the concerns of indigenous groups and those suffering from severe poverty. A number of groups also advocated, as was expected, for the promotion of gender ideology and abortion under the…

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Spiritual Sterility versus Spiritual Fruitfulness

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 9, 2017 /
fruit on a tree

…Our families are victimized by ideologies and political agendas and aggrieved by a litany of afflictions: separation, divorce, pornography, infidelity, drug and alcohol abuse, suicides, domestic and societal violence, poverty,…

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How the Church Must Respond to the Overpopulation Myth

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 23, 2017 /
glass globe in hand

…and methods do not resolve corruption, poverty, or maldistribution. They do nothing to further the goals and potential of a nation or its peoples – they merely make larger poor…

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The Plague of “Contraceptive Imperialism”

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 20, 2017 /
Group of young African kids walking with buckets and jerrycans on their head as they prepare to bring clean water back to their village.

…each year on population control into authentic economic development that would help alleviate extreme poverty and suffering. Even many liberals have been condemning contraceptive imperialism for decades. For example, more…

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What is the Abortion Situation in the Caribbean?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 14, 2017 /
Carribean

…living in great poverty amid natural resources that would lift up the entire region if not for pervasive corruption and predation by richer nations. Most significantly, life-and-death struggles over faith,…

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Abortifacient Brief: Implants

By Susan Ciancio / November 5, 2020 /
birth control implant

…began advocating and implementing widespread and sometimes mandatory use of Norplant, often as a means to fight poverty.” Initially, officials targeted women using drugs. Their hope was that Norplant would…

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Shouldn’t We Allow Abortions to Help Victims of Rape?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / May 26, 2021 /

Some people disclaim their natural heritage. I always name my origin. It didn’t hold me back and neither has my color. I was born in poverty. My father raped my…

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