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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…

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Permissive Parenting

By Susan Ciancio / January 19, 2024 /
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…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…

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Children and the Meaningful Life

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

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Family and the Theology of the Body

By Susan Ciancio / December 29, 2021 /
happy family in a park

…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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Does Welfare Reduce Abortion?

By HLI Staff / July 22, 2013 /
black and white picture mom with baby

…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…

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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…

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The War on Marriage and Family

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 29, 2016 /
happy newlyweds

…of how the war on these institutions continues. With poisonous eloquence, political candidates and pundits defend same-sex unions, perverted sex education programs, sex and reproductive rights — contraception and abortion…

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