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No, Parents Shouldn't Be Browbeaten into 'Affirming' Their Gender-Dysphoric Children
Rarely does a single journal article capture the full range of intellectual errors committed by pediatric 'gender' activists. A June 2026 'clinical perspective' in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry comes very close. A mere glance at Michal J. McDowell et al.'s 'Using a Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy Model to Join Caregivers of Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth' is enough to alert the reader that he or she is in strange territory indeed. Children Bring Higher Meaning and Purpose to Life
Conventional wisdom holds that children bring a special kind of existential purpose into the lives of their parents. A Pew survey of 17 countries found that 'family and children' was by far the most commonly selected source of meaning in life, and a survey of Greeks found that 87% of parents marked 'giving meaning to life' as an advantage of having children. Same-sex marriage arguments are now selling polyamory
The old joke that 'whoever said marriage is a 50-50 proposition didn't know the half of it,' takes on a whole new meaning in a culture flirting with 'polyamory.' Within the word, 'poly' means multiple, and 'amor' means love. Thus, polyamory refers to multiple loves, or what has traditionally been called 'open relationships.' Abortion and Euthanasia Wrongly Tell People Death is a Solution
Whatever happened to medicine saving lives? How is it that so many can claim that abortion, the intentional killing of a baby not yet born, constitutes health care? Why is euthanasia, the intentional killing of someone who would otherwise live longer, described as a "hard beauty"? It makes no sense. Not if you still believe what medicine was always supposed to believe: that doctors exist to save lives, not to end them on purpose. Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths are Rising Because of Abortion Pills
Every few months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its 2022 Dobbs decision, another article claims that prolife laws are keeping women from essential medical care, and higher rates of maternal mortality are inevitable. The most recent example is an article in Propublica magazine, which asserted in its title: "Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It's Worse in States With Abortion Bans." Over 50 abortions for every prenatal visit: Why are we funding Planned Parenthood?
Ninety days of conversations. Ninety days of closed-door discussions between members. Ninety days of delay while the largest abortion business in America continues collecting taxpayer money and killing our youngest, most vulnerable citizens. On July 4, 2025, a one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood took effect under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. For 12 months, families were no longer forced to underwrite the nation's abortion giant. That protection ended on July 4, 2026, and the funding was restored. In the three months since, Congress has done nothing but talk. Canada Approved Euthanasia for Woman Who Could No Longer Cook for Her Family
A Canadian woman in her 70s was approved for euthanasia after she lost the ability to cook for her family, a role she had prized as the matriarch. New Study Undercuts Messaging of Transgender Ideologues
Studies claiming that the brains of males who identifies as 'transgender women" appear more anatomically similar to female brains than to other males are methodologically very weak and are not supported by the evidence, says a new, peer-reviewed study. Canada's MAID Program Has Euthanized Over 100,000 People
Following the death of a beloved grandmother who was killed without her consent through Canada's government-run assisted suicide program, public outcry is building against the 10-year-old scheme that has killed over 100,000 Canadians. Expert Debunks Claim Abortion Bans Led to Higher 'Suicidality' Among Teen Girls
Teen girls are not more likely to consider suicide just because their state bans abortion, contrary the claims of researchers. More Headlines…
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Who are the Poor? It is difficult for me to look at a photograph of a hungry child and simply turn the page. Perhaps it is because I have spent so many years working with young people at Kochi University and traveling across Asia to share the pro-life message. When you look into the face of a child who does not have enough to eat, hunger is no longer just a statistic. It has a face. It is a little boy or girl who is hungry today and whose parents may not know where tomorrow's food will come from. How many children worldwide suffer from hunger? The numbers are staggering. According to the latest estimates from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank, 42.8 million children under five...
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If America's unity frays, the problem is probably not its diversity, but that America needs its many cultural groups - and perhaps new ones - to contribute more of their special strengths to public life. Joshua Sohn
So long as the pro-life movement is part of the GOP coalition, the attractiveness of the pro-life message is affected by the attractiveness of the GOP. And it's hard to grow the pro-life tent if the pro-life movement is bound up with a hard-right GOP that is repellent to centrist and center-left voters. Rod Lampard
Bishop Fulton Sheen argued Communism and capitalism share a common root - materialism divorced from morality. That affinity, this piece argues, explains China's persecution of Christians today. Jeremy Adams
There are certain universal and timeless truths about what works in a classroom that no technological advancement (even a humanoid robot) will ever change. And this knowledge is where being the old man on campus can have power and resonance. Jordan J. Ballor
Abuse is no argument against proper use. But AI's challenges and opportunities are bound up with identifying the scale and scope of proper use as well as the consequences of abuse, and how to distinguish one from another.
Steven Mosher
Faced with a presidential veto, the pro-aborts caved. Language fatally weakening the Mexico City policy has been removed from the omnibus bill that will fund the federal government for the next year. The original Mexico City policy, and other pro-life amendments, remain in place. Sean P. O’Malley
When science and technology open doors that should not be opened, a Pandora's box spews forth evils that menace humanity. We invented the atom bomb and germ warfare. These inventions are now part of human history forever. Scientists have opened another perilous door: they are manufacturing human life and using their product as an object of experimentation.
Charles J. Chaput
As God shows His mercy to us, so we should show His mercy to others. Lent is a time to reflect on our sinfulness, to learn humility and gratitude, and to turn toward the greatness of God's love. God's Son gave up his own life so that we might have eternal life. Shouldn't we show our gratitude for this gift of life in the ways we honor and respect all life, as Christ did? John Stonestreet
Another, yes another, disturbing bill is being proposed in the California legislature. What's going on in that state? John F. Doherty
Without a revelation from God to confirm that man's end transcends this world, politics will dominate our life and make hell on earth. But in its proper place, politics can do great good. As Fr. James Schall reminds us, the "abiding problem" of the "political enterprise" is to grasp this "limit of politics." Eric Metaxas
When we save just one life from abortion, we're saving the future. I'll explain with a beautiful story. Ryan T. Anderson
"Strong marriage norms help guide and shape decisions that lead to optimal choices." Other research shows both that marriage causes behavioral change and that non-marriage can explain cultural pathologies. As the late Steve Nock demonstrated, after their wedding men tend to spend more time at work, less time at bars, more time at religious gatherings, less time in jail, and more time with family. Douglas McManaman
The pastoral approach to ministering to a person requires a great deal of experience and a reasonably moderate degree of empathy. However, empathy can be inordinate, and inordinate empathy, like disordered passion, blinds the mind. I can become so empathetic and sensitive to how my words might affect individual students or members of a congregation that I begin to teach or preach at a level that is so general that my message becomes obvious, completely innocuous, and unchallenging, leaving the faithful/students as a whole entirely ignorant of the basic demands of the moral law, both natural and divine. C. Ward Kischer
Abstract: Stem cells and embryonic stem cells, presently, are two of the most popular terms in scientific journals and in lay publications. They are two different types of cells, but are often confused so as to imply they are the same cell. However, their origins are different and their courses of action are different. Claims have also been made that early human blastomeres, for example, cells of the inner cell mass, are, in fact, stem cells. They are not. In this review we show that 1. embryonic stem cells and stem cells are not the same, and 2. human embryonic blastomeres are not stem cells. Thomas Harmon
It is all too tempting to try to use Catholic Social Doctrine as a policy platform with which to bludgeon one's political opponents. Pope Leo XIV's address is a good sign that he seems to understand what is at stake.
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