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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.

The Right to Choose
Making an Informed Decision about Vaccines

Jameson Taylor
One of the ironies of the Culture of Death is that while a mother can choose to murder her unborn child, parents are not free to care for their children as they choose.

Is suicide different from physician assisted death?

Xavier Symons
Bioethicists have for several decades discussed whether Physician Assisted Death (PAD) can be distinguished from other forms of suicide.

The Language of Assisted Suicide
Deception Instead of Dignity

John Stonestreet
The battle over ideas is the battle over definitions. Whoever controls the language controls the debate. Let me illustrate. What's your response - positive or negative - to the term "assisted suicide"?

Monkeypox, Sexual Health, and the Limits of Medical Technology

Jean Lloyd C.
Our culture seems to think that almost no behavior is off limits, no matter how dangerous or even deadly, if engaged in for erotic reasons. We've forgotten the harsh lessons about our bodily limits that HIV/AIDS taught us, and instead we embrace a sexual ethic of non-judgmentalism and autonomy. Monkeypox reminds us of our natural limits - and the consequences of ignoring them.

China's black market in scientific papers

Michael Cook
Reporters for the journal Science have documented a thriving Chinese black market in articles and authorship in reputable scientific journals. "People are sparing no expense in order to get published," says the former vice-president of Peking University Third Hospital.

Mary, Mother of God
January 1, 2006 (B)

Frank Enderle
As we do every year, we begin this New Year under the protection of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother. "Behold your Mother," Jesus says to each and every one of us. We could not ask for a better gift, for to be protected by her is a great blessing.

Thailand: Military regime must go

Asia Human Rights
How does one deal with a 42% spike in suicides by farmers/cultivators in a country where "development" has been the buzzword for the last couple of years?

Bangladesh: Defending rights requires unified resistance

Asia Human Rights
On International Human Rights Day, the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), and Odhikar pay tribute to and stand in solidarity with the victims and survivors of human rights violations.

Scientific Response to Criticism of the California Human Rights Amendment as "Protecting Fertilized Eggs"

Dianne N. Irving
A human embryo is a human being - not just a "cell" or a "bunch of cells"; not an "egg", and not a "pre-embryo". Yet it has been implied, even by the Attorney General of the State of California that this youngest of human beings is not a human being, but just "an egg", or just "a fertilized egg". This claim is not only ridiculous; it is also perpetrating erroneous and false science.

Survey Says: You Can't Replace Dad

John Stonestreet
Last month, new research from the Institute for Family Studies demonstrated, once again, how important fathers are, especially for boys. For example, boys growing up without their dads are only half as likely to graduate from college as their peers who live with dad at home.