prolife

UN’s Pro-Abortion Efforts — Or US’s International Agenda?

by Becky Marchinda January 5, 2012

There is always a temptation for pro-lifers to place the blame for the success of the abortion agenda on whoever is its most visible promoter. And if the perceived target is big and intangible, a little bit hard to understand…

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The New Must-Have: Flaw-Free Offspring

by Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk January 4, 2012

Once I met a woman who had worked for years in fashion and modeling. Unsurprisingly, she was strikingly attractive. She was accompanied by her teenage daughter who, by contrast, was rather unremarkable to look at, maybe even a plain Jane.…

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Swiss Neutrality Takes A Pro-Abortion Break

by Joannes Bucher December 27, 2011

In September 2011, I had the privilege of traveling to Zurich, Switzerland to participate in the March for Life. HLI-Switzerland joined with 11 other pro-life organizations to co-sponsor the March. It was a beautiful gathering of about 1,500 people that…

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The Church’s Surprising Stance on Capital Punishment – Part 3

by Christopher A. Ferrara December 22, 2011

Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. You can read Part 2 here.
The matter, however, does not end there. It is clear that John Paul II would have liked to go even further by declaring…

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The Church’s Surprising Stance on Capital Punishment – Part 2

by Christopher A. Ferrara December 21, 2011

Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 3 will run tomorrow. You can read Part 1 here.
It is claimed there was a “development” of Catholic doctrine on the death penalty during the pontificate of John…

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She May Have Had an Abortion

by Mary Beth Bonacci December 21, 2011

I was walking down a hall at my parish today, minding my own sweet business, when a woman came out of a meeting room and asked, “Could we talk to you for a few minutes?”
Sure, why not?
I went…

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The Church’s Surprising Stance on Capital Punishment – Part 1

by Christopher A. Ferrara December 20, 2011

This piece on capital punishment is a revision of the original, which first appeared in Latin Mass Magazine (Summer 2001). It is written from a “traditionalist” perspective, a traditionalist being simply a Catholic who affirms—as a Catholic must—that the Second…

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A Long Line of Less-Than-Ideal Conceptions

by Denise Bossert December 19, 2011

My father was the product of a marriage that lasted about five minutes. According to family lore, the ink wasn’t dry on the marriage license before the d-word came up. The breach in his parents’ marriage had a lasting effect…

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The End of Catholic Healthcare

by Steven W. Mosher December 16, 2011

Evidence continues to pile up that the huge expansion of government formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) — Obamacare, for short — poses huge risks to religious freedom, to the rights of conscience, and to…

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A Study in Illogic: Fr. Spitzer Analyzes Roe v. Wade – Part 2

by Elisabeth Deffner December 14, 2011

Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ, recently took time to speak with Catholic Exchange about his new book, Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy on the Life Issues, and the subject it addresses: how the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision had…

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