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Pregnancy Resource Centers: Turning Despair to Hope

Posted on 28 October 2009

One of the most encouraging facts about the pro-life effort in our country is that there are far more pregnancy resource centers (over 2300) than there are abortion mills (about 740).

The centers used to be called “crisis pregnancy centers” and…

Pro-life: Hobby or Spirituality?

Posted on 08 October 2009

Jesus Christ is Life. To stand with him is to stand with life, and to stand against whatever destroys life. Being “pro-life,” therefore, is not merely a “personal belief” or a political ideology. Pro-life action is not merely a hobby…

Our Father and the Culture of Life

Posted on 23 September 2009

In the Our Father, we pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” These words are a cornerstone of the culture of life. After all, to say, “thy will be done” is exactly the opposite of…

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Prayer and Testimony Will Shape Health Care Debate

Posted on 22 September 2009

The health care debate in our country continues to rage, and for us in the pro-life movement, the key issue continues to be the fact that access to and funding for abortion will be vastly expanded unless the legislation explicitly prohibits…

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Prayer and Testimony Will Shape Health Care Debate

Posted on 14 September 2009

The health care debate in our country continues to rage, and for us in the pro-life movement, the key issue continues to be the fact that access to and funding for abortion will be vastly expanded unless the legislation explicitly…

Women Proclaim Freedom from Shame

Posted on 03 September 2009

“We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us” (1 Jn. 1:3). With these words, John spells out the basis on which the Gospel was announced to the world: personal…

Stealth Care

Posted on 21 July 2009

A lot of energy was expended to stop the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA), and those efforts succeeded. But pro-life groups warned that the FOCA provisions to expand abortion and force us to pay for it would be snuck in…

The Pope’s Gift to the President and to Us

Posted on 14 July 2009

At Pope Benedict’s meeting with President Obama, the Pope gave the President two gifts: the new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, and the recent document on bioethics, Dignitas Personae. The latter gift was apparently a last-minute addition. Upon leaving the meeting,…

One Solitary Child

Posted on 30 June 2009

I recently had a conversation with a woman named Laura, who volunteers in the mail room at Priests for Life. She told me an interesting story about her son, Salvatore, who was born in 1973, the year Roe. Vs. Wade legalized…

Forcing a Pro-Choice Crisis: What About Third Trimester Abortions?

Posted on 10 June 2009

What do LeRoy Carhart, Warren Hern, and George Tiller have in common? They are among an unknown number who perform abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy (the third trimester being the seventh, eighth, and ninth month!)

For two decades I have…

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