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Pro-life Education Program Saves Lives in India

By HLI Staff / October 22, 2021 /

…this is far from the truth. Fr. Alex of HLI India meets women all the time who think they want abortion or contraception. But they have no idea what the…

New Missionary Ready to Form a Pro-Life Generation in India

By HLI Staff / November 9, 2021 /

…Cherian’s first career was in pop-dancing. He was raised Catholic, but went along with the secular views on abortion and contraception. Then a few years ago a video about “phony…

Permissive Parenting

By Susan Ciancio / January 19, 2024 /

…to understand that a promiscuous lifestyle does hurt someone; it hurts them. Porn, contraception, and premarital sex are just a few of the harmful behaviors that have been normalized by…

Children and the Meaningful Life

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

…widely wanted to escape parenthood. Indeed, most adults viewed parenthood as arguably the key to living a truly meaningful life. So, what has changed? Well, contraception for one. And yet,…

Family and the Theology of the Body

By Susan Ciancio / December 29, 2021 /

…of a child, for this would be like refusing or rejecting a gift from God. Regarding artificial contraception, the pope says: “The resort to artificial means [of contraception] destroys the…

The WHO’s Mysterious “Pandemic Treaty” That Will Strip Rights Away

By Marisa Cantu / May 30, 2024 /

…great concern, as the treaty promotes abortion, contraception, and LGBT issues. Those who dissent face potential repercussions. The treaty, as Fr. Opio explains, would also pave the way for the…

Russia Initiates a Culture of Life

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 6, 2025 /

…poured billions of dollars into promoting abortion, contraception, and sterilization, creating an anti-natalist worldview. And even in the face of potentially catastrophic birth declines, this “new” cultural and societal mindset…

The Global Fertility Crisis

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / August 4, 2025 /

…1950s, fell steeply throughout the 1960s and early 1970s (when contraception and abortion became widely available), before rising in the 1980s and 90s. Beginning in 2008, however, the fertility rate…

Does Welfare Reduce Abortion?

By HLI Staff / July 22, 2013 /

…Abortion Rates Just as real-world evidence shows that access to contraception does not reduce the abortion rate despite seemingly commonsense logic to the contrary, welfare does not reduce the abortion…

Humanae Vitae Explained

By Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro / July 25, 2013 /

In this 2001 presentation, Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula, executive director of HLI’s Rome office, explains that the Church has always taught that contraception is a sin. Some claims arose starting in…