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Where Are The Dads Protecting Their Daughters From Dangerous Male Athletes?
Why have so few fathers, especially after their daughters were injured by a male, stepped forward and said, 'Not on my watch'?

Alabama, Frozen Embryos, and the Law
The recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court on frozen embryos has gotten a lot of attention. Not all of the reactions, commentaries, and analysis have been well-founded. The result is more confusion about how the law works, what that means for unborn children, and what we as pro-lifers need to do.

50 Years Later, I Still Anguish Over My Abortion
My life has long been affected by an abortion I had at 17. Abortion kills innocent unborn babies under the guise of women?s rights.

7 Ways to Keep the Wokeness Out of Your Home and Away from Your Kids
Such parents also need to be reassured that their experience is a common one, and not necessarily reflective of some great failure or oversight on their part. Most importantly, we all need to remind ourselves that this is far more of a spiritual battle than a political one, and to never underestimate the preeminent place of prayer and sacrifice for our children.

Committing To Embryo Creation Instead Of Marriage Is A Recipe For Death And Disaster
It's backward to commit to spending thousands of dollars creating life in a lab instead of committing to marriage.

Pope: Too many young people die in madness of war
Pope Francis asks again for prayers for those who suffer "terrible consequences" of conflicts, and reflects on receiving a rosary and a Gospel book from a soldier who died on the front lines.

Over 230 million women and girls subjected to female genital mutilation: UNICEF
More than 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM); an increase of 30 million or 15 per cent compared with figures from 2016, new UN estimates revealed on Friday.

Marriage And Family, Not Money And Career, Are The Key To A Fulfilling Life
Adults who are married with children report that their lives are more meaningful, compared with childless men and women, who say their lives are sad.

The Abortion Drug is Killing and Injuring Women, Where are the Feminists?
It should come as no shock that when all safety standards for high-risk drugs are removed, the public suffers.

Experts warn of 'inhumane' treatment of embryos, 'evil' circumstances surrounding IVF
A Catholic moral theologian this week warned that in vitro fertilization (IVF) "separates the things that God wanted to be together" while another expert spoke out against the "inhumane" treatment of the hundreds of thousands of human embryos produced by IVF.

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Do you feel unlovable or disqualified?

One of the most painful things we can ever experience is being made to feel that we don't belong. All of us have experienced this sometime in our lives. For example, some people are made to feel different because of their race or ethnic background. All around us we see the damaging effects of racism in society just because of the color of another person's skin, age (unborn/elderly), or disability (Down Syndrome). We can also be made to feel different because of our job. Other times, people can be made to feel "less than" because they struggle with physical limitations, mental illness or just feeling different from others without knowing why. We find cases like this throughout the gospels. Take for example the leper story which centers on a segment of people "not belonging". Many of us today have been singled out like the leper. In those days, lepers suffered a particular kind of ostracism. People found them disgusting. Imagine the pain and loneliness that those lepers must have felt. Wherever you find yourself today in life's journey, be assured that God is in control. He loves you. Like the leper, not only can Jesus heal you, but Jesus wants to heal you. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! How to Think about Chastity

Nathaniel Peters
Chastity is a way of being more holistically directed toward our happiness regardless of the desires and attractions we experience.

New! Assigned at Birth?

Terence Sweeney
To assign is to flail and thrash about as we try to exert control over the uncontrollable. But to wait in the ultrasound office or in the delivery room to find out, to then share with others in this first discovery of our child's identity, to delight equally in male and female, is to recover our fundamental vulnerability to the gifts given to us.

New! 13 reasons why you should be deeply sceptical of the IVF industry

Michael Cook
After the Alabama Supreme Court's recent ruling that frozen embryos deserve the same protections as children, politicians have been falling over themselves to find ways to defend the US IVF industry. I'd like to convince you that IVF is a morally complex issue, so complex and tangled that it needs to be regulated. This is the case whether or not you believe that frozen embryos are "extrauterine children" living in a "cryogenic nursery", in the words of the Court.

New! The invisible pandemic: unplanned childlessness

Louis T. March
First off, it's that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats merit mention. South Korea, with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.78), broke its own record at 0.72. In Japan births fell 5.1 percent, marriages almost 6 percent. Seems Europe has more fifty-plus folks than preschoolers.

New! Gender Ideology Threatens the Most Vulnerable Kids

John Stonestreet
Getting the stats right so parents can get the right kind of help.

Should all newborns receive genome sequencing?

Michael Cook
As the cost of genome sequencing decreases, doctors are debating whether all newborns should be sequenced, facilitating a lifetime of personalized medical care.

Synthetic Embryos: Manipulating Cells and Manipulating Language

Pilar Calva
In order to escape legal restrictions, such as the 14-day rule, and numerous other moral and ethical concerns, many of the scientists busy creating human embryos by means of new technologies are also busy creating new terms to describe their creations - terms designed to imply that no human individual has been created."

Philippines: No to Population Control, Yes to Authentic Development - Part 2

Steven Mosher
Such policies cause the opposite of what they are intended to achieve: more poverty, more disease and more wasteful government spending.

Speaking Truth Crushes Evil

Judie Brown
The spirit of courage thwarts the devil's invitation to be politically correct cowards. Fr. Altman knows this, and so do we. Speaking truth crushes evil. It always will.

Invoking Dresden is not a good way to morally defend the Israeli offensive

Gabriel Andrade
Is Israel justified in its military offensive against Gaza? I do not know. Make no mistake: what Hamas did on October 7 is despicable and deserves strong condemnation. A state that has suffered a terrorist attack has a right to self-defense, and some retaliation is acceptable.

The Profound Injustice of Judge Posner on Marriage

John Finnis
The equality that demands same-sex marriage demands that all social recognition of the distinction between mothers and fathers - of the paternal and the maternal, the masculine and the feminine, and of the sexual identity of everyone as male or female - must be systematically expunged, to be replaced by the lies and seductions of "gender identities" on the ever more blurry rainbow spectrum.

I Have a Dream
Who Inspired Martin Luther King, Jr.?

John Stonestreet
If you have children who are learning about the "I Have a Dream" speech today, make sure they understand what motivated Martin Luther King, Jr. It was his faith in the God who authored justice. Because of this, as King reminded us fifty years ago today, when it comes to civil rights, we should not be satisfied with America's progress until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

Things Worth Dying For: The Nature of a Life Worth Living

Charles J. Chaput
It's a good thing, a vital thing, to consider what we're willing to die for. What do we love more than life? To even ask that question is an act of rebellion against a loveless age. And to answer it with conviction is to become a revolutionary; the kind of loving revolutionary who will survive and resist - and someday redeem a late modern West that can no longer imagine anything worth dying for, and thus, in the long run, anything worth living for. This essay is adapted from a lecture delivered on October 11, 2019, for the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame.

Pakistan: Government facilitates curbing freedom of religion

Asia Human Rights
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the UN Human Rights Council's attention to the issue of a continual curb on freedom of religion in the country. Pakistan's systemic discrimination against its minorities is a cause for concern.

The Transfiguration and the Son of Man

Douglas McManaman
We don't have divine glory by nature, but human beings seek it for themselves. They desire it, usurp it, and the kings and queens of history were glorified with an earthly glory that feigns divine glory, and yet there was nothing in any of these kings, queens, or princes that would demand such extraordinary treatment and worship. With Christ, we have the very opposite.