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Voting Catholic in 2024

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / November 4, 2024 /

“The people are called on to take an always larger part in the public life of the nation. This participation brings with it grave responsibilities. Hence the necessity for the faithful to have clear, solid, precise knowledge of their duties in the moral and religious domain with respect to their exercise of their civil rights,…

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Doctor Canceled for Reversing Chemical Abortions Shares His Story

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / October 31, 2024 /

Dr. Dermot Kearney has successfully reversed many chemical abortions. If a woman takes progesterone within 48 hours of the first abortion pill, she has approximately a 50-60% change of saving her child’s life! It’s important that women have the choice to get abortion pill reversal. However, pro-abortion groups want the practice stopped. Dr. Kearney found…

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Killing the Vulnerable, Sick, and Helpless

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 28, 2024 /

“So-called ‘compassionate’ euthanasia holds that it is better to die than to suffer, and that it would be compassionate to help a patient to die by means of euthanasia or assisted suicide. In reality, human compassion consists not in causing death, but in embracing the sick, in supporting them in their difficulties, in offering them…

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Spiritual Warfare & the Halloween Ritual Abortion Crisis

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / October 24, 2024 /

Spiritual warfare is a Catholic buzzword. But what exactly is it? And how does spiritual warfare relate to the pro-life and family movement? On this episode, Fr. Francesco Giordano explains what spiritual warfare is (and why you should care). The spiritual life isn’t a battle, it’s a war. It’s critical that you have the proper…

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Hopelessness and the Fear of Welcoming Children

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 21, 2024 /

For decades now, pro-life activists like Human Life International’s founder Fr. Paul Marx have warned that the real threat facing the world isn’t overpopulation, but rather underpopulation.  In making this claim, such prophetic voices were going against the grain, to put it mildly. Their views were drowned out by a cacophony of voices proclaiming imminent…

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Your Guide to Informed Catholic Voting in 2024

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / October 17, 2024 /

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholics have a moral obligation to vote. But what principles guide this decision? And what do Catholics need to know before heading to the ballot box? On this episode, Joshua Mercer from CatholicVote joins us to talk about the upcoming 2024 election. We discuss why Catholics must…

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True Mercy in the Final Moments of Life

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 14, 2024 /

“Even when not motivated by a selfish refusal to be burdened with the life of someone who is suffering, euthanasia must be called a false mercy, and indeed a disturbing ‘perversion’ of mercy. True ‘compassion’ leads to sharing another’s pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear.”  -Pope St. John Paul…

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Why Planned Parenthood’s Eugenic Past Still Matters

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / October 10, 2024 /

On October 16th, 1916, Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood. As Sanger’s writings make clear, she strongly advocated for both racist and eugenicist practices. In recent years, Planned Parenthood has tried to distance itself from its founder. But it can’t. Margaret Sanger’s eugenic and racist philosophies are intertwined with Planned Parenthood’s current mission. On this episode,…

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We Must Be in the World, and Yet Not of It

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 7, 2024 /

“We should give no more than a side glance at all that happens in the world, but the eyes of our soul are to be focused right ahead; for our whole attention must be fixed on those realities which constitute our goal.”  -From a homily on the Gospels by Pope St. Gregory the Great, no.…

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Are Unsafe Abortions Stopped by Legalizing Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / October 4, 2024 /

Before Roe v. Wade led to the widespread legalization of abortion, pro-abortion activists had a problem. The procedure was viewed with extraordinary negativity, and statistics did not back up their various arguments for legalizing abortion. Recognizing that abortion itself was unpalatable to the public, they resorted to a variety of emotional appeals to promote its…

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