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August 21, 2026

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170 People in New Mexico Got Deadly Assisted Suicide Drugs in 2025
The New Mexico 2025 assisted suicide report stated that there were 170 people who received the lethal poison prescription in 2025.

Study Showed 82% Miscarriage Rate After COVID Shot
Pfizer's own data showed the COVID shots had nearly same fetal death rate as the abortion pills!

Court Rules Against Planned Parenthood, Medicaid Fraud May Cost Abortion Biz $1.8 Billion
A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed Planned Parenthood's bid to stop a major Medicaid fraud lawsuit, returning the case to trial court where the organization faces potential damages approaching $2 billion.

New York Assisted Suicide Law Goes Into Effect Killing the Elderly and Disabled
More broadly, as New York assisted suicide goes into effect tomorrow it sends a dangerous message to people with disabilities, older adults, and seriously ill patients: that death is an acceptable substitute for care.

70% of Americans Oppose Mail-Order Abortions
According to podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, phrases such as "abortion is health care," "love is love," and "no human being is illegal" are used to emotionally manipulate voters into having misplaced empathy.

Father's Heartbreaking Letter to His Aborted Daughter: "Goodbye, Darling Pilgrim, I love you - - Dad."
He began his column with this question: "What do you tell an unborn daughter that was aborted 40 years ago by its mother?"

Softball Hall of Famer on the Future of Men in Women's Sports - 'Girls Are Going to Get Wiped Out'
As the ridiculous battle over biological men playing in women's sports inexplicably rages on, the most inexplicable thing that has come from it is actual women who either really cannot see the implications, both physical and otherwise, or are too afraid to admit to the alphabet mafia that they really do and won't speak up.

After 10 Years of Covering the Trans Madness, Here's What I Learned
Journalist Brandon Showalter recaps the horrors of the transgender movement: "Those of us who've been doing the hard work exposing the madness against an impenetrable mainstream media blockade can all tell you what it's like to learn about all the horrors, only to be gaslit with flat denials like 'that's not happening.' Then you show concrete proof, and it becomes 'well, it's only a few people,' and then maybe 'why are you so obsessed with this small, strange issue?'."

Climate alarm 'blaring from every direction'
Climate-driven disasters are reaching "nightmare proportions" due to humanity's "addiction" to fossil fuels, a top UN official warned on Tuesday.

Mifepristone as a Public Health Issue
Do not dismiss the complaint as some pro-life ruse. There has been a dramatic shift from surgical to pharmaceutical abortion. The active agents in mifepristone - the first of the two "abortion pills" - remain active post-excretion, i.e., they enter public water systems. The second pill induces contractions that result in expulsion of embryonic and fetal remains, along with other uterine contents.

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Editorial

Selling Motherhood: Why Commercial Surrogacy Echoes Trafficking

Wombs for sale? Unborn baby pricing? Selling motherhood? I want to be honest with you: surrogacy, human trafficking, and Catholic teaching are challenging issues. They touch on deep longings (to be loved, to be a parent), real human suffering (poverty, coercion, abuse), and big questions about what it means to treat people with dignity. My aim here is not to lecture but to help you think through the moral issues associated with "MODERN-DAY SLAVERY".

Advances in reproductive technology have changed what families look like today. For some, surrogacy brings real hope. But when surrogacy becomes a commercial transaction - when reproductive labor is bought and sold - it raises serious ethical and social questions. Many Catholics compare COMMERCIAL SURROGACY to forms of modern corruption and TRAFFICKING. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

Don't Worry. Be Conservative.

Ben Peterson
The war on spiritual poverty is worth fighting, and we need foot soldiers and generals who are willing to wage it.

America's Birthrate Crisis: The Contraceptive Roots of the Population Bust

Shenan J. Boquet
Is the world facing an existentially threatening crisis of overpopulation? Until a few years ago, practically every major Western politician, institution, and media outlet was in lockstep. Yes, the world was overpopulated. And it was only going to get worse, with consequences including ecological disaster, warfare, famine, hunger, and poverty.

Abortion Drug Crisis: Four Years After Overturning of Roe v Wade, Abortions Have Nearly Doubled

Dan Hart
Since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade four years ago Wednesday, allowing dozens of states to establish laws protecting unborn babies, abortions have nonetheless almost doubled in the U.S. due to the abortion pill, which is being shipped from dozens of domestic and international vendors across state lines in violation of dozens of state pro-life laws.

Roi Yozevitch Is AI Taking Over the "Religion of the Book"?

Roi Yozevitch
An AI does not only "remember" all the words. But as any ChatGPT user can testify, it finds connections between different sources, summarizes them, generates challenging questions, and even deduces new insights. It can therefore seem as though these machines are well-versed in almost any topic.

Eleven Years After Obergefell, Who Will Speak for the Children?

Joseph A. DeAngelo
The work, eleven years in, begins with honesty; the admission that Obergefell was not a neutral expansion of rights but a substitution of one set of duties for another, and that the duties it displaced were owed chiefly to children.

We need to end the death penalty now
Arguments to end the death penalty 10 years ago are even stronger today

Charles J. Chaput
The death penalty is a bad idea because it diminishes the society that employs it. It doesn't deter capital crime. It doesn't bring back the dead. It doesn't give anyone "peace." It sometimes kills the innocent. It coarsens our own humanity and sense of justice. And while both Scripture and long Catholic tradition do support the legitimacy of capital punishment in extraordinary cases, the conditions that would justify its use in developed countries like the United States almost never exist.

New! Faith Moves Mountains and Messiahs (ordinary times 20)

Proclaim Sermons
This is a story depicting faith -- faith that reaches across borders, leaps over boundaries, faith which will draw forth a response from even a reluctant Messiah.

No Room for Sanity at the Inn: Stifling Democratic Debate over Same-Sex Marriage

Anthony Esolen
Democracy and common sense teach us to seek the truth by listening to one another. If we will not even provide a room for people who want to talk with one another because we do not like what they say, then democracy is impossible.

Gratitude and the Incarnation
First Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

Douglas McManaman
The word “ecstasy” comes from the Greek word ekstasis, which means to “stand outside of”, or to be beside oneself. The more we look outside ourselves in a spirit of thanksgiving, the more joy filled or ecstatic our life becomes. Learning this gratitude is so important, because Christ’s coming in the flesh was ultimately for the sake of restoring gratitude to God.

Cyberbullying in Japan: A Growing Emergency

*Offsite Article
I'm a third-year junior high student in Japan. My name is Aoi. Every morning I wake up and check my phone before I get out of bed. I use LINE to talk to my classmates, Instagram to see pictures, and occasionally Twitter when I want to see what people are saying about school or shows. I like being connected - it helps me stay close to friends and know what's happening. But sometimes the messages and posts don't feel friendly. On one occasion, an individual posted derogatory comments about a girl in our class. People started replying and laughing. It spread quickly, and the girl looked hurt and stopped going to club activities. On another occasion, a classmate created a fake media profile mocking a shy 13-year-old boy, posted altered photos, and spread false rumors. The boy withdrew from his friends, missed school, and developed anxiety. These incidents show how online behavior can hurt people's feelings, change their daily lives, or even lead to suicide.

Thoughts on the Trastevere

Douglas McManaman
There is so much about the history of that piazza that I am unaware of and will always be unaware of; there is a veritable cognitive inexhaustibility about that little place that I am familiar with. I could spend more time there and if I did so, my understanding of it would gradually increase, especially if I had access to a historian, a geologist, an architect, and a carpenter perhaps. After a time, I would very likely not look at that piazza the same way again, just as we do not look at anything we come to know more fully the same way as we did initially

The Relativization of Tragedy

Douglas McManaman
For those who have suffered great tragedy in life, their entire identity no longer has to be defined by that tragedy. It has been made relative. Tragedy no longer has the final word over your life, over my life, over any human life. The answer to that tragedy is the resurrection of Christ.

UK Children's Commissioner fails British children

Ann Farmer
Government reports ought to identify the kind of family which is most successful.

Teenage Magnanimity and the Beautiful

Douglas McManaman
Synopsis: Anyone who has worked with teenagers knows that the happiest and most emotionally healthy of them are those who aspire after great and honorable ends. The virtue of magnanimity involves a stretching forth of the mind to great honors. Happiness is directly related to upward movement, that is, to the pursuit of what is truly larger and greater than oneself.

'If we want to renew our world, we must start with the family'

Tamara El-Rahi
Mike and Alicia Hernon, an Ohio couple who created the Messy Family Project, are visiting Australia for a line-up of talks and events (details below). Their podcast delves into all things parenting and marriage, and has 20,000 downloads a month from people around the world. Tamara El-Rahi, a Sydney mum who is organising the Hernons' visit for The Marriage Project, asked them a few questions about the Messy Family journey.