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Tell Congress to Stop Sending Planned Parenthood $2 Million Every Day to Kill Babies
There is a major battle in the U.S. House over negotiations this week on the federal budget. Lawmakers are making key decisions to either keep the abortion defunding language in the 2026 budget or remove it and continue funding Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion.

Disabled People are Not "Better off Dead"
"I am so fed up of having to answer strangers' questions, even in this day and age, who think that being us must be the worst thing imaginable," she said to campaigners, which included a number of disabled people. "That having pain, having difficulty with everyday activities, must mean that it would be better if we were dead - that is not the case."

Abortion Pills Leave Parts of Baby Inside Mother 5% of the Time
The most comprehensive analysis of chemical abortion pills shows nearly 11% of women who take this toxic medicine suffered serious adverse complications.

ope Leo XIV: "Ensure Respect for Every Person, Including the Unborn"
Pope Leo XIV delivered a powerful affirmation of the sanctity of life Friday, emphasizing that the Catholic Church must uphold the dignity of every person, particularly the unborn, in his first major address to the Vatican diplomatic corps.

Botched D&E Abortions, Hemorrhages, and Unbearable Pain: Patients Get Zero Protection in Illinois, But Plenty of Abortion Injuries
On March 31, a 21-year-old woman required emergency transport from the Flossmoor Planned Parenthood in Illinois after a failed dilation and evacuation abortion. This botched abortion brings the number of known women injured in just one month by Illinois abortion facilities to six - with a grand total of eleven Illinois injuries in 2025 so far.

There is no such thing as a trans toddler
What will it take to end the lie of the 'transgender child'? Children's charity Mermaids, the disseminator of so many trans myths, has long since fallen from grace. Malpractice at the NHS's Tavistock gender-identity clinic was exposed and the centre closed. The Cass Review's finding that puberty blockers pose 'very substantial risks' to children led to an indefinite ban. And then there has been the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that men are not women. Yet, incredibly, despite all of these developments, it has emerged this week that toddlers and very young children who think they are transgender are still receiving gender treatment on the NHS.

New UN Treaty Allows for Virtual Child P*rn
A new UN treaty to combat cybercrimes would allow predators and tech giants to profit from the sexual exploitation of children, including through images created using AI. These new threats are emerging while the United Nations launches a new treaty to address cybercrime, but the new treaty only addresses some of the threats from sexual exploitation. While the new treaty calls for criminalizing non-consensual sharing of intimate pictures, it still allows for a broad swath of sexualized content involving children.

I Lost My Job For Mocking The Trans Flag
I can't quite describe the feeling of having people you worked well with for years suddenly look at you like you are a monster. This is what I experienced just over a year ago when I was pulled into a meeting with my manager and asked to explain my social media posts, as though I had] done something criminal.

What Rights Do Human Embryos Have?
President Trump's administration seeks to "make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children." But this statement begs a lot of questions, particularly those related to the rights of the child. Should anyone who wants one be able to buy and make a baby with IVF? To answer this question, I will rely on the instruction from the CDF. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) cites Donum vitae on the familiar passage about the gift of a child.

What Rights Do Human Embryos Have?
President Trump's administration seeks to "make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children." But this statement begs a lot of questions, particularly those related to the rights of the child. Should anyone who wants one be able to buy and make a baby with IVF? To answer this question, I will rely on the instruction from the CDF. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) cites Donum vitae on the familiar passage about the gift of a child.

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War Against Children: Freezing Live Embryos - "human or not?" (Part 10)

It is so easy in life to lose sight of what's most important. Our days are so busy that we often overlook problems facing our children both born and unborn. Take for example freezing unborn embryos. This is another obsession in waging war on Children. This procedure takes a living human person and actually freezes it. This freezing, also known commonly as solidification, is a phase transition where an unborn child turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. We must ask ourselves "When does human life begin?" Are embryos human people? Are pre-born children human embryos at the beginning of pregnancy? The answer is very simple. Is the pregnant woman human? Yes. Is her partner human? Yes. It follows that the embryo in the woman's body must be of the same species - HUMAN. Then it is safe to say that frozen human embryos are the most weak and vulnerable of human beings. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

Pope Francis and Accompanying Each Other Along the Path to Truth

Luis Tellez
Pope Francis devoted much of his pontificate to the challenge of implementing a culture of love in support of the truth in contemporary culture - a culture that does not grasp what authentic love is, because we treat love as a commodity. Many people - young people especially - are eager for caritas in veritate, and the pope sought to teach it to them through many of the themes of the pontificate: accompanying others, recognizing the concrete circumstances that we fallen human beings can find ourselves in, and always being witnesses to God's infinite mercy.

Why Progressive Politics Undermines Christian Faith - And How Churches Should Respond

Kurt Mahlburg
New research shows an alarming trend: as people become more progressive, they're more likely to abandon Christianity. Here's what that means for churches today. A belief held by many Christians today is that Jesus was neither "right" nor "left", and that politics is best kept out of the church.

Grief or Relief

Judie Brown
Planned Parenthood tells website visitors that "the decision to have an abortion is personal, and you're the only one who can make it." For over half a century, forsaking science on the altar of choice has been a vocation for far too many Americans. And today we see the wretched results. There can be no genuine relief in our midst when babies die, when women suffer, and when all of us experience the sorrow of failing to insist that abortion is not a right, it is a death sentence.

Unconditional Love - Easy to Say But Hard to Do

Warwick Marsh
"I looked at my little boy when he was born and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change." I could have written these words about any one of my five children, but these are the touching words of author Tony Parsons.

The Ethics of Brainless 'Spare Bodies'

John Stonestreet
The Church must have a theology of the body, or "disturbing" science will fill in the blanks.

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Gender Dysphoria, and Transition Regret: Billy's Story

Walt Heyer
Billy is not the first who turned to a transgender identity to escape pain and trauma. It's time for psychotherapists to seriously address the unique causes of each individual's gender dysphoria before encouraging them to pursue hormones and surgery.

The Rule of Life

Tom Bartolomeo
As the human body needs to replace its aging cells for the physical health of the body the human soul needs to replenish its pro-creative male or female powers for the spiritual growth and health of the whole person. These powers continuously enhance and renew themselves in a variety of pro-creative activities not only as fathers and mothers but as teachers and students, doctors and patients, priests and laity - as benefactors and beneficiaries bound together. In the mercy and Spirit of Christ it may be the recovery of God in man and man in God.

Beware the Dangers of TikTok

Shenan J. Boquet
LGBT extremists are deliberately targeting children with dangerous propaganda using methods that are designed to ensure that the children's parents know nothing about it. That is the disturbing lesson from two stories that broke over the past few weeks.

The Teacher as Living Temple

Douglas McManaman
The temple of Christ's body becomes ours through the Eucharist. We become his "father's house", his dwelling place. And that's what we bring into the classroom every day. That's how we evangelize. All we have to do is be that temple, the temple of his body. This is the great dignity that is ours, called by Christ to be teachers of youth. We are given the inconceivably unique and noble privilege of being a living temple for our students. Without the kids knowing it necessarily, they are brought into the vicinity of the new temple precincts - if we have become that temple, that body of Christ, by our devotion, our prayer life, and our frequent reception of the Eucharist.

NFP as it is taught in Poland

Anthony Zimmerman
About 3000 Catholic Family Counseling Centers exist in various parishes of Poland, providing marriage preparation courses and teaching about natural family regulation methods.

Nepal: Independent Citizens' Call on International Community to Address Humanitarian Crisis in Nepal

Asia Human Rights
We undersigned citizens are deeply concerned that the de facto economic blockade of the past two months by India has resulted in a grave humanitarian crisis in Nepal. We appeal to the concerned parties of Nepal, and to the international community including India to recognise this crisis and take effective steps to bring it to an immediate end.

'Mary Kills People' Is Euthanasia Propaganda

Judie Brown
Television dramas are taking on controversial subjects with greater frequency these days, and the new Lifetime program Mary Kills People is no exception. The trouble is that this one mirrors a growing attitude in today's culture that those who are in need of relief from suffering should be put down in a way similar to the family pet.

NY families fight nursing homes for guardianship

Xavier Symons
Nursing homes in New York State have been accused of using 'guardianship petitions' as a means to coerce elderly residents into paying outstanding fees.

Pakistan: The world's largest death row prisoners awaiting for their fate

Asia Human Rights
The right to life is the inalienable right of every human being. Pakistan's Constitution, international norms and conventions dictate that no one shall be deprived of life and liberty. In Pakistan this right is only available to a select few.

The Church Could Teach That Capital Punishment Is Inherently Wrong

John Finnis
Nothing asserted in Scripture read in light of the New Testament excludes the conclusion that capital punishment is inherently wrong. Nor does any definitive Church teaching. But the new revision of the Catechism, while removing from view an evident instability, remedies none of the underlying tensions and seems likely to obscure the only path to a teaching fully stabilized by adopting that conclusion authoritatively, as an authentic development of doctrine. And the revisionary documents are in other ways disconcerting. Part two of a two-part essay.