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Jerry Novotny OMI
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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.

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Editorial

"Give Them Something to Eat": The Hungry Children of Asia

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... Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! E Pluribus Unum, Yesterday and Today

John F. Doherty
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.

New! A Democrat's Ideological Journey on Abortion

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.

New! From Tiananmen to Bulldozing Churches: China's New Crackdown Exposes the Bloodthirsty Nature of Communism

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.

New! Beware the Old Man on Campus

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.

AI, Automation, and the Meaning of Work

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.

Becoming Jesus: in spirit and truth

Tom Bartolomeo
Many of our Christian institutions have lost their mission because they are too concerned with their mortal existence and accommodations rendering God to Caesar. This applies not simply to the leaders of the church but to many of her members. We forget that as living stones God has no preferences as the Apostle Paul stated, "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3: 28). We can no longer identify ourselves with brick and mortar.

Refugees already 'extremely vetted' should be welcome

Sheila Liaugmina
New policy must take care to avoid humanitarian crises.

India: Demonetisation last nail in the coffin of already beleaguered peasantry

Asia Human Rights
Even if one puts the cacophonous debate on the merits and demerits of demonetisation of Rupees 500 and 1000 currency notes aside, one thing is clear: it has hit hard the farmers all set to sow Rabi crops.

Protecting Females in Sports and Just Telling the Truth

John Stonestreet
Whether men should compete with and as women isn't just a dilemma for rugby. Across the United States, female athletes in a number of sports, at the high school and college level, find themselves competing against biological males who are typically bigger, stronger, and faster because, well, they are males. The results of such "inclusion" include lost competitions, lost opportunities, and lost scholarships for female athletes.

Who had the bright idea of trans-ferring men to women's prisons?

Ann Farmer
In a case reported in the British media last week, a convicted rapist sexually assaulted four women in the jail between September and November last year. Why was he in a women's jail? Because "he" was really a "she", or so he/she said, and so authoritatively that prison authorities believed him/her.

Super surgeon who uses stem cells accused of unethical conduct

Michael Cook
Shades of Hwang Woo-suk

The rise of the transhumanist movement

Xavier Symons
Whatever you think of transhumanism, one thing is quite certain: the transhumanist movement is alive, healthy and growing. In any ordinary week in the world of bioethics, several articles will be published exploring one aspect or other of transhumanism.

Familiaris Consortio (The Family)

Official Documents
Knowing that marriage and the family constitute one of the most precious of human values, the church wishes to speak and offer her help to those who are already aware of the value of marriage and the family and seek to live it faithfully, to those who are uncertain and anxious and searching for the truth, and to those who are unjustly impeded from living freely their family lives. Supporting the first, illuminating the second and assisting the others, the church offers her services to every person who wonders about the destiny of marriage and the family.

In Defence of Pope Leo XIV

Matt Ransom
Amid controversy surrounding recent remarks from the US President, it's worth stepping back to understand who Pope Leo XIV truly is and what his role entails.

The Devil Wore a Suit and Tie

Judie Brown
It is beyond imagination to think of anything so evil or cruel as murdering an innocent baby before she even has a chance to be born. It is equally difficult to understand how anyone in a position of power and governance could be so dull as to overlook the carnage of abortion after all these years.