Fr. Shenan J. Boquet has served as president of Human Life International since 2011. He was ordained in 1993 as a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana. As HLI’s president, Fr. Boquet collaborates with fellow laborers in the pro-life and family movement in over 80 countries, offering the Sacraments, giving seminars and trainings, appearing on numerous media outlets, and encouraging people of all walks of life to live as faithful advocates for a Culture of Life and Love. He is available for interviews and bookings on behalf of HLI by emailing hli@hli.org.
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Infidelity is devastating. Infidelity is heartbreaking and crushing. When you make your wedding vows, you vow to love your new spouse for "better or worse." Infidelity definitely falls into the "worse" category, but it doesn't have to mean the end of your marriage. With communication, healing, love, patience, effort, and renewed trust, you can build a new - and better - marriage with the same partner and create a new life together.
Date posted: 2024-04-01
The realization is like a slap in the face. You feel humiliated. You're embarrassed. You can't believe this is happening to you and your husband. Over the past few months, you have had a sneaking suspicion that your husband not only watches porn but is addicted.
Date posted: 2024-04-01
France recently announced that the number of births in the nation has dropped to the lowest level since World War II. In 2023, less than 700,000 births were recorded in the country, a drop of 20% since 2010, and a number that hadn't been seen since 1944. With an overall fertility rate of 1.68 children born per woman, France's fertility rate is higher than many European countries, but far below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1. How astonishing, therefore, to read that this past week the French Parliament voted overwhelmingly to add a "right" to abortion to the nation's Constitution - becoming the first nation in the world to take this radical step.
Date posted: 2024-03-20
Sister Lucia, one of the three Fatima visionaries, famously told Cardinal Carlo Caffarra that the "final battle" between the kingdom of God and Satan would be over marriage and the family. We should not be surprised, then, that marriage has come under so many assaults in recent decades. This includes the explosion of no-fault divorce, the increase in cohabitation and collapse in marriage rates, and the incursions of contraception, pornography, rampant infidelity and so-called same-sex "marriage."
Date posted: 2024-03-06
For many around the world, the family is not only the first but also the only form of social protection, a community of reciprocity and care. Parents are the primary educators of their children. Families are often the strongest advocates for their members who might otherwise be ignored or considered a burden by society. Each member of a family gives and receives irreplaceable love, care, and support. For this reason, social policies must support the family in its essential role in achieving social justice and social development.
Date posted: 2024-02-24
There has been significant backlash to Pope Francis' surrogacy comments, with individuals stating he does not understand what families need or is invalidating people. But pointing out the immorality of a practice doesn't mean that people are invalidated, nor that the Pope does not understand the pain of infertility.
Date posted: 2024-02-20
Transgender activists are angry at the New York Times... again. A few days ago, the Times published a lengthy investigative article looking into the number of youths who have been medically or surgically "transitioned," but who subsequently regretted their decision.
Date posted: 2024-02-17
An Australian court recently granted the request, potentially paving the way for the grandmother-aged woman to bring into the world a child who is the son of a man who has been dead since mid-December.
Date posted: 2024-02-01
In this article, we would like to answer the question: why is adultery a grave sin? This way of approaching the issue is a doctrinal approach. We will answer the question drawing from the teachings of the Bible and the teachings of the Catholic Church, especially the Catechism and other documents of the Magisterium. The issue of adultery is founded upon the fact that God Himself is the Author of marriage. Moreover, He created marriage with certain goods and laws that cannot be changed by human will, neither by the state nor society.
Date posted: 2024-02-01
Abortion - the taking of a baby's life before he has a chance to be born - is one of the most horrific things a human being can do to another. In just the first ten months of 2023 alone, there were 878,000 abortions in the US. That's a staggering amount of death. It may leave us feeling helpless and even hopeless.
Date posted: 2024-01-29
Of all the victims of abortion, it is perhaps the mother and father who are the most neglected of all. The reality is that those who obtain abortions are also victims. The trauma they experience both during and after abortion is rarely given the attention it deserves. But that trauma is real, and those who suffer from it need help.
Date posted: 2024-01-22
New contraceptive options were supposed to bring huge improvements to "reproductive health." Their proponents looked forward to a day when STIs and accidental pregnancies were a thing of the past. It's time to admit that hormonal birth control and condoms aren't going to get us there.
Date posted: 2024-01-15
Since they have conferred life on their children, parents have the original, primary and inalienable right to educate them; hence they must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children.... The primary right of parents to educate their children must be upheld in all forms of collaboration between parents, teachers and school authorities.
Date posted: 2024-01-13
One of the strangest ideas to have taken hold in recent decades is the idea that watching hardcore pornography is just a form of "harmless" entertainment.
Date posted: 2023-12-19
Day after day we hear the phrase "population control." We hear laments that the planet is overcrowded and running out of resources. It seems that many people care more about the planet than the human beings who inhabit it.
Date posted: 2023-12-16
Before we address this delicate issue, we would like to express from the start that our intention is not denigrate any person, no matter what his or her sexual attitudes are. Our purpose is to shed the objective light of God's Word on the topic of transgenderism, not to personally condemn anybody. Only God can judge a person's heart.
Date posted: 2023-12-16
Cardinal Sarah's analysis of the phenomenon of transgenderism (sex-identity confusion) arguably reaches down to the very root cause of this modern phenomenon. Importantly, however, it also touches on the root of so many of the moral and social evils which we in the pro-life and pro-family movements spend our days fighting: divorce, pornography, the freefall in marriage rates, euthanasia, assisted suicide, transhumanism, and the explosion in loneliness and social disintegration.
Date posted: 2023-11-29
Today's consumer products are not the soap and lampshades of "recycled" Nazi concentration camp victims that we see in museums. The new utilitarian use of "people as product" is a sophisticated enterprise that is not visible to the human eye.
Date posted: 2023-10-14
Without a concerted effort to face the demographic tsunami that was self-imposed by short-sighted, inhumane policies and propaganda, we may well simply meet evil with additional evil, compounding our guilt, and once again scapegoating the most vulnerable
Date posted: 2023-10-02
Should underage children have access to unlimited, hardcore, high definition, streaming pornography? You'd think that this is a question on which everybody agrees. But you would be wrong.
Date posted: 2023-09-09
For the first time ever, a contraceptive pill will be made available over-the-counter in the United States. As is typical, the many side effects of taking large doses of artificial hormones to suppress a woman's natural fertility are scarcely discussed in the reporting on the decision. When they are discussed, they are callously dismissed as simply an "acceptable" trade off.
Date posted: 2023-08-29
When push comes to shove, everybody understands that immersing yourself in certain thoughts or images can have a profound impact on what you think, and ultimately, who you are.
Date posted: 2023-08-29
You recently found out that you're expecting a baby, and though this should be a joyful time, you find that it is anything but. You have argued with your partner. You have cried. You have told him that you want the baby, but he wants you to have an abortion. You feel pulled on all sides and don't know what to do. That stress is not uncommon. We want you to know that you are not alone. You do not have to succumb to his pressure. And there is help out there.
Date posted: 2023-08-22
Long before Christ ever came to earth and preached the Gospel, human beings understood that forming a life-long relationship with another person and starting a family was one of the most important, meaningful, and desirable things any person could do.
Date posted: 2023-08-14
In some particularly notorious jurisdictions, such as San Francisco, certain "Pride" events are known to feature actual (not simulated) public sex acts, to which the police simply turn a blind eye, as the sidewalks and streets are turned into a public brothel.
Date posted: 2023-08-12
Numerous recent reports have confirmed that many hospitals and clinics in the United States are offering even the most extreme transgender procedures, including powerful puberty blocking drugs and body-mutilating surgeries, to teenagers, some as young as thirteen.
Date posted: 2023-07-30
What's the number of transgenders in the United States? What percentage of people are transgender? Outside of the U.S., researchers have found it much more difficult to determine the number of transgender people. Lack of clear data, the way statistics are kept, and the vague wording of surveys all prevent an accurate count.
Date posted: 2023-07-28
Some people are calling it the "Bud Light Effect." The phrase refers to an encouraging phenomenon this year of people standing up and saying, "enough is enough" to the increasingly heavy-handed demands of the LGBT movement, particularly during so-called "Pride Month."
Date posted: 2023-07-26
Few things provoke more righteous anger in me than the increasingly common sight of ideologically minded adults hyper-sexualizing children, whether for their own gratification, or in the cause of spreading the doctrines of the sexual revolution.
Date posted: 2023-07-12
The Organization of American States is like the European Union for the Western Hemisphere, an international organization promoting cooperation among member states within the Americas. It also helps formulate abortion policies. The OAS's General Assembly just wrapped up an annual meeting, held this year in Washington, D.C. Luis Martinez with Human Life International, heads the pro-life delegation at the OAS. He shares highlights on the positive achievements they were able to effect at this year's OAS General Assembly.
Date posted: 2023-07-01
Throughout a woman's pregnancy, her baby undergoes many stages of development before birth. Among the milestones that indicate life is the heartbeat. But when does a fetus have a heartbeat?
Date posted: 2023-06-03
Indeed, the birth of children is the main indicator for measuring the hope of a people...If few are born, it means that there is little hope.
Date posted: 2023-05-24
Many women seeking abortions fear that a child might interfere with their relationships with their partners. Sometimes a woman's partner, parents, or friends encourage her to have an abortion or express disapproval if she wishes to keep the child. Because of this, women often fear that if they do not have abortions, their relationships may suffer.
Date posted: 2023-05-24
Parents are primarily responsible for their children, and government actors and agencies, like schools, are merely supposed to help parents in their role. As the Vatican affirmed in the Charter of Rights of the Family, "Parents have the right to educate their children in conformity with their moral and religious convictions."
Date posted: 2023-05-01
Chemical abortion has provided the multi-billion-dollar abortion industry with the ability to expand abortion by involving more providers outside a traditional abortion business, like Planned Parenthood.
Date posted: 2023-04-28
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
Date posted: 2023-04-22
In the battle against transgender extremism, there are some growing signs of hope. A few days ago, for instance, Florida became the eighth state to ban certain kinds of "transgender" procedures for children younger than 18. The new regulations will ban doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or artificial hormones to minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
Date posted: 2023-04-11
After decades in which the myth of overpopulation exerted a stranglehold on the popular imagination, due to its ubiquity in the mainstream media, governments, and non-governmental organizations, a different perspective is finally starting to get a hearing.
Date posted: 2023-04-05
An increasing body of evidence is showing that there are skyrocketing levels of anxiety and depression among children and teens. As with any complex phenomenon, there are likely a variety of reasons for this spike in mental illness. However, more and more studies are pointing the finger at one major cause: social media.
Date posted: 2023-03-25
Today the Catholic Church faces a daunting pastoral and sacramental challenge due to the sad fact that many Catholics who have married sacramentally are now divorced, civilly remarried, and having sexual relations with the new spouse.
Date posted: 2023-03-21
Today children - children! - are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this?
Date posted: 2023-03-11
As never before, the world needs the wisdom and the hope embodied in the Catholic Church's teaching on life and the family. Let us pray for every person, Christian and non-Christian, that they will be open to this message of the Gospel of Life. And let us pray for our bishops, priests, and laity that they may be inspired to find new ways to preach this Gospel of Life to a world thirsting for this living water.
Date posted: 2023-03-08
With the death of Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church has lost one of the most powerful defenders of its teaching on life and family that we have ever seen.
Date posted: 2023-03-04
Adolescence and young adulthood can be incredibly difficult times, especially in today's world. If you've ever been to a concert or a loud sporting event, you know the feeling of having to shout to be heard, even by the person next to you. That's what it can feel like if you're confused about your feelings and your body. You want people to listen to you, but oftentimes the noise of the outside world masks your words, and people only hear part of what you're saying, if anything at all.
Date posted: 2023-02-27
Euthanasia is an intrinsically evil act, in every situation or circumstance...Any formal or immediate material cooperation in such an act is a grave sin against human life.
Date posted: 2023-02-15
Pornography should be denounced as a permanent attack on the dignity of men and women. It is not only a matter of protecting children - an urgent task of the authorities and all of us - but also of declaring pornography a threat to public health.
Date posted: 2023-02-03
With the death of Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church has lost one of the most powerful defenders of its teaching on life and family that we have ever seen.
Date posted: 2023-02-03
One of the most difficult things about watching the radicalization and growing power of the LGBT agenda in recent years has been seeing the sexual revolutionaries targeting children, the casualties of an over-sexualized culture and adult exploitation.
Date posted: 2023-01-28
There are several pieces of good news to share this week about the battle over abortion in the United States.
Date posted: 2022-12-08
Our vulnerability forms the basis for an ethics of care, especially in the medical field, which is expressed in concern, dedication, shared participation and responsibility towards the women and men entrusted to us for material and spiritual assistance in their hour of need.
Date posted: 2022-11-07
Sometimes it's difficult to remember that we now live in a post-Roe America. For nearly 50 years, pro-lifers gave everything to the effort to eradicate that most-appalling of all U.S. Supreme Court decisions, a decision that gave America the dubious distinction of being one of the most extreme pro-abortion nations on earth, and which opened the floodgates to untold millions of abortions - numbering over 63.5 million.
Date posted: 2022-10-28
Conservative activists are warning that the Biden administration has introduced radical rule changes to Title IX and the Affordable Care Act that would eradicate sex differentiation, normalize abortion, and undermine the conscience rights of health care workers.
Date posted: 2022-10-07
Conservative activists and politicians are demanding answers after an early-morning raid conducted by FBI agents on the home of Mark Houck, a pro-life activist, sidewalk counselor, and father of seven children.
Date posted: 2022-10-06
According to Church teaching, Catholics and other persons of good will who are truly dead and who have previously and freely expressed their desire to donate organs can do so only if their death has been determined by the most accurate medical parameters.
Date posted: 2022-09-25
This radical bill already passed the U.S. House in July, with the help of 47 Republicans. Now, however, it needs to pass the Senate, where its fate is more uncertain. However, I am concerned that certain Republican Senators are quietly planning on supporting it, which could ensure its passage. For this reason, it is crucial that Americans reading this column immediately contact their senators, letting them know that they expect them to vote against this destructive bill.
Date posted: 2022-09-25
It is painful to note that under the pretext of guaranteeing presumed subjective rights, a growing number of legal systems in our world seem to be moving away from their inalienable duty to protect human life at every one of its phases. (-Pope Francis) In a huge victory, the Chilean people have overwhelmingly rejected a radical draft constitution that would have made abortion a "right" in the majority-Catholic nation.
Date posted: 2022-09-12
Imagine for a moment that there was a serial killer who over the space of decades murdered hundreds of victims without being caught. Imagine that he mutilated and maimed many others. Imagine, too, that his mind was so twisted that he took photos of his victims, and even kept their bodies or body parts preserved in his home and office.
Date posted: 2022-09-05
For thousands of years, people have found ways to kill unwanted babies. From taking pills to tearing a child to pieces prior to birth to even throwing a baby off a cliff, it often seems that any method will do. Parents seek only the end result - being rid of the baby.
Date posted: 2022-09-04
One of the most distressing aspects of the transgender ideology that has swept through our culture and social institutions in the past decade or so, is the level of energy that its promoters have invested into pushing the most extreme and destructive version of transgenderism on impressionable children.
Date posted: 2022-09-01
Pornography presents and promotes a distorted view of human sexuality, in which the person portrayed, man or woman, is treated as merely a means of pleasure.... Their dignity is abused as they are used for others' pleasure and profit.... It rejects the equal dignity and complementarity between man and woman and strikes at the heart of God's plan for communion between persons by substituting an image of the viewer's own lustful desires - which is ultimately illusory - for the reality of a true relationship with another human being.
Date posted: 2022-08-24
Common sense suggests that in a democracy, major legal change should usually follow a change in public opinion. That is, the more people support some new idea, the more likely they will be to elect politicians who support that idea, and the more likely it will be that those politicians will in turn put forward and vote in favor of legislation enacting that idea.
Date posted: 2022-08-19
Catholic theologians are expressing alarm after a Vatican institute originally founded by Pope St. John Paul II to defend Catholic teaching on life and family has instead published a book that includes sections that appears to undermine Catholic teaching, particularly on the issue of contraception.
Date posted: 2022-08-02
With the reversal of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, we have been hearing the phrase "my body, my choice" much more loudly and much more frequently. I agree that a woman should have autonomy over her body. But, you see, when she's pregnant with a baby - no matter which stage that baby is in - it is no longer just her body.
Date posted: 2022-08-02
With Roe gone and abortion already illegal, or set to become illegal, in numerous states, you can expect abortion activists and pro-abortion media to go into overdrive spreading propaganda, trying to make the case that abortion is often "necessary" to preserve the life or health of the mother
Date posted: 2022-07-25
It goes without saying that there is never a good excuse for killing an innocent unborn child. Abortion is always morally wrong and never the solution. However, we must not underestimate the extent to which decades of legalized abortion has altered the fundamental structures of our society in ways that incentivize abortion, while making it more and more difficult to give birth
Date posted: 2022-07-25
Overnight, abortion became illegal in a number of states, causing abortion facilities there to shut down operations and send their staff home. Already thousands of unborn children have been spared a gruesome death at the hands of abortionists. Countless more will be saved in the coming months and years.
Date posted: 2022-07-25
Condoms have been marketed so effectively as an all-around "solution" for those who want to embrace sexual activity without consequences, few stop to question whether condoms actually work. Those who think that condom usage will prevent any STIs are sadly mistaken. Let's go point-by-point.
Date posted: 2022-07-17
We mourn the millions of lives lost, due to the hubris of seven unelected judges, who took it upon themselves in 1973 to unconstitutionally steal authority from the American people, and to impose their nihilistic, radically individualistic, anti-life worldview on the whole nation. And yet, we face the future with renewed hope and gratitude.
Date posted: 2022-07-12
One of the most difficult things every parent has to face is how to impart traditional moral norms to their children about human sexuality, thus safeguarding them from the deceptive language of secular values and the lures of sensuality
Date posted: 2022-07-12
In recent weeks, the left and pro-abortion lobby have been tirelessly working to incite fear, to intimidate Catholics, the pro-life movement, and anyone who opposes abortion to abandon our cause. We should not be surprised by such actions. The left and progressive camps have used fear-mongering, deception, and violence as their "persuasive" tactics for decades. They know full well that the liberal media and government, as well as the abortion industry, will support them and do very little to denounce their acts of terrorism.
Date posted: 2022-07-12
Everywhere you look now, there is overwhelming evidence of increasing social fragmentation and isolation. Lacking the fundamental social safety net of an intact, loving family and the stability of an intact community constituted of intact families, more and more people live their lives as atomized individuals. Cut off from the deep, mutual relationships of family and friendship, they withdraw into the fantasy worlds of ubiquitous (and often violent and nihilistic) entertainment, social media, video games, and pornography.
Date posted: 2022-06-21
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, pro-lifers will have an exciting opportunity to increase protections for the preborn in their state. Now more than ever it is important to know which laws work, and which don't. So, what do common pro-life and pro-choice policies truly do, and what policies can you fight for to make your state safer for preborn children?
Date posted: 2022-06-21
To this end, the archbishop quoted a statement by Pope St. John Paul II that legislators "have a 'grave and clear obligation to oppose' any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them."
Date posted: 2022-06-05
So much heartache and pain has been visited upon the younger generations because they bought into the diabolical lie of the sexual revolution: of "sex without consequences."
Date posted: 2022-04-27
The most noteworthy thing about the body of the first child is that it was fully intact. This likely means that the little boy was aborted using an "induction" method. That is, the abortionist used drugs to induce labor in the child's mother, causing her to give birth prematurely.
Date posted: 2022-04-25
The Parental Rights in Education law simply states that children in kindergarten through grade three should not be given classroom instruction on topics such as sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill also requires that parents be informed about changes in services related to their child's physical or psychological health.
Date posted: 2022-04-20
The use of condoms is considered normal, almost compulsory, for many people engaging in sex today, whether married or unmarried. Of course, pro-lifers and Catholics oppose this unnatural device on the moral level. It not only disrupts the mechanism of transmitting human life in the most direct way possible; it also encourages promiscuity with false promises of "preventing pregnancy" or diseases.
Date posted: 2022-03-07
There is no doubt that there are many "inconveniences" involved in parenthood. It is even true that a human being does consume resources, and that the number of humans on the planet can present an environmental challenge. However, this is not a challenge that is best avoided by deliberately getting rid of the humans that present the challenge. It is, rather, a challenge to be solved by the humans who are welcomed into the world by parents who have discerned, in a spirit of adventure, that welcoming a child is a risk worth taking.
Date posted: 2022-02-23
"It is easy to forget that every abortion is happening to a unique person. With tens of millions of abortions occurring every year, the deaths become a mere statistic. We never know the people who are lost, and to many of us, they are just numbers on a sheet.
Date posted: 2022-02-22
Unborn babies feel pain. The science has clearly shown for years that unborn children can perceive pain in the womb, but this is a significant admission by doctors on both sides of the abortion debate, recognizing that even early in human development, the unborn can feel pain. Science again points to the humanity of the unborn.
Date posted: 2022-02-08
Modern forms of non-invasive prenatal tests (called NIPT, for short) are growing in popularity, being used by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women every year in the United States alone.
Date posted: 2022-01-25
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.
Date posted: 2022-01-20
Every human born is not just another mouth to feed but is an image of God Himself, a spark of the divine on earth, endowed with rationality, and a spiritual soul capable of intimate union with God Himself. At an earthier level, every human being is another potential mother, father, daughter, son, friend, another employee, taxpayer, inventor, and creator. Every human life is a life of inexpressible richness: of triumphs, sorrows, joys, accomplishments. Every human born has the ability to give something to the world that no other person can give.
Date posted: 2022-01-12
While some may see no ethical problem, for many a straight line can be drawn from the ending of a human life in an abortion to a vaccine or drug created using cells derived from the harvesting of the fetal tissue. Even if the cells have been propagated for years in the laboratory far removed from the abortion, that connection line remains. That is why we must look to the Church for an answer to this dilemma.
Date posted: 2022-01-12
This Christmas, we must take time to go apart from the crowd, from the parties, and presents, and food and celebrations, to spend time in quiet prayer. Christ is waiting for us. He was born for this. To give Himself to us. Let us receive Him into the interior stables of our hearts, and rest in His peace.
Date posted: 2021-12-30
An abortifacient is defined as "an agent (such as a drug) that induces abortion." However, manufactures often market these drugs under the name "contraception" to make them more appealing to consumers.
Date posted: 2021-12-30
In a rare victory for pro-family activists, Italian senators have voted down a bill that would have banned so-called "hate speech" based upon "sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability."
Date posted: 2021-12-29
In a disturbing development, Switzerland has approved a euthanasia device designed to make killing people easier than ever, including in locations where the practice is illegal. The colorful device, with a sleek design that looks like something straight out of a futuristic dystopian movie, was created by euthanasia-enthusiast Dr. Philip Nitschke.
Date posted: 2021-12-27
America's birthrate is at its lowest point ever. Now, a new survey suggests that there is little reason to hope that this trend will reverse itself any time soon. According to the poll by Pew Research, 44% of non-parents say that it's not too likely, or not at all likely, that they will have children.
Date posted: 2021-12-11
The pro-abortion movement has gone to great lengths to downplay the risks of abortion to the mother, but these risks are very real. This article will examine some of the common consequences of abortion. As we shall see, aside from always resulting in a dead baby, abortions are also dangerous to the mother.
Date posted: 2021-12-11
Many women seeking abortions fear that a child might interfere with their relationships with their partners. While this fear is understandable, abortion does not tend to mend bonds with others. Rather, more often than not, it has severe negative impacts on a woman's relationships - not with her partner, but with her other family members and children as well.
Date posted: 2021-12-11
Of all the victims of abortion, it is perhaps the mother and father who are the most neglected of all. The trauma they experience both during and after abortion is rarely given the attention it deserves. But that trauma is real, and those who suffer from it need help.
Date posted: 2021-12-04
Many people think that abortion is just a "woman's issue." But they don't understand that it affects the father as well, for he too loses a child. Further, the man often experiences the same types of emotions that a woman experiences after the loss of a child. And though very little research has been done on post-abortive men, the fact that post-abortive ministries now usually include services for men are evidence that men hurt too.
Date posted: 2021-12-01
We must pray for President Biden, who is approaching the final years of his life, that he may yet learn to use his enormous power to protect, rather than to attack life and family, thereby undoing some of the great harm he has caused throughout his long political career.
Date posted: 2021-11-22
"The people of Texas speaking through their state legislators acted to protect unborn children with beating hearts, who are as human as you and me," Dannenfelser said. "For two generations, the U.S. Supreme Court has tied the hands of states to enact laws protecting unborn children and their mothers. It is time to restore this right to the people and update our laws."
Date posted: 2021-11-02
Every married couple has the responsibility to prayerfully practice what the Catholic Church calls "responsible parenthood" as it pertains to the number and spacing of children. Spouses are to exercise this responsibility with generosity in receiving the gift of life, and with prudence, while avoiding selfishness and carelessness. Although children are the supreme gift of marriage, Catholic couples are not obliged to have as many children as humanly possible. While always remaining open to the possibility of a new life, couples may, when a serious reason is present, choose to postpone pregnancy.
Date posted: 2021-11-02
"[Biden] likes to call himself a devout Catholic," said Archbishop Naumann. "I would urge him to begin to act like one, especially on the life issues. And to let his faith really inform his conscience and the decisions that he's making, not the platform of his party."
Date posted: 2021-11-02
Every October, pro-lifers celebrate Respect Life Month. This year, this month of prayer and action in support of a Culture of Life has a unique character, since we are also celebrating the Year of St. Joseph.
Date posted: 2021-10-25
A few weeks ago, we learned of a terrible - but, in many ways, sadly predictable - twist in a recent incident involving a "transgender" individual. You might remember that a couple months ago, a video began circulating of a deeply upset woman at a spa in Los Angeles, complaining to staff that a man had exposed himself in the women's area of the spa. The woman also claimed that the man was visibly sexually aroused.
Date posted: 2021-10-24
Medical experts agree that fetal pain begins at 12 weeks gestation and may even be felt as early as eight weeks. But perhaps the best source for firsthand experience with fetal pain is an abortionist.
Date posted: 2021-10-09
The fact that every Democratic representative but one in the House voted for this repugnant piece of legislation tells you everything that you need to know about the current state of the Democratic party. The Democratic party is not simply "pro-choice,"" as they would have us believe, they are truly pro-abortion.
Date posted: 2021-10-09
The short answer to this question is "zero."
Date posted: 2021-10-09
Texas' Heartbeat Law, the first heartbeat law to actually go into effect anywhere in the United States, speaks directly to this profound and moving reality that a baby's heartbeat begins far, far earlier in pregnancy than most people realize, giving testimony to the existence of another, unique, fully alive human being.
Date posted: 2021-09-20
Why would researchers want to create a natural way to manage fertility? There are many reasons. People have known for years that the pill is harmful to the body, and that it can kill a preborn baby. They have just chosen to ignore these facts for the sake of their perceived freedom.
Date posted: 2021-09-19
Many people are greatly troubled at many things. I am hearing again and again from people that they are on edge. People are overwhelmed by what is going on in the world, in the Church, and in their families. There is a sense of mental and spiritual oppression, of a heavy weight pressing down on us, a sense of foreboding.
Date posted: 2021-09-04
The frustrating thing is that even as extremely left-wing jurisdictions in Europe are putting the brakes on the transgender insanity, here in America the pro-transgender movement is going into overdrive, painting any opposition to their movement as certain to cause vast harms to children with gender dysphoria.
Date posted: 2021-09-04
Transgenderism is becoming more accepted in society. That's a reality. And it's good that we have laws to protect all people. It is never right to hurt another, or to discriminate. We are all valuable children of God. We all deserve love and respect. But, as Catholics, we are called to act in the person of Christ. Building a Culture of Life means that we must follow God's laws. We must live and teach His love and mercy. We must teach the truth about gender and about sex. And we must be our brothers' keepers. This means helping them flourish as children of God without destroying their bodies.
Date posted: 2021-09-01
The Hyde Amendment is one of the most important pro-life achievements in U.S. history. But right now, it is under serious threat.
Date posted: 2021-09-01
"Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition." This strongly worded statement appears in a remarkable legal brief filed at the end of July by Mississippi's attorney general. In that brief, the state of Mississippi urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions.
Date posted: 2021-09-01
Types of Products That Use Aborted Babies. Products related to fetal material can be broken down into three categories: artificial flavors, cosmetics, and medicines/vaccines.
Date posted: 2021-08-18
Any fair analysis of how well the Catholic Church has done in educating Catholics about - let alone convincing them of - the Church's teaching on contraception, would have to conclude that the Church's ministers have failed quite spectacularly.
Date posted: 2021-08-17
There is something marvelous in my mind about the parents who, fully knowing the potential heartache and struggles involved in bringing another child into the world, nevertheless express their boundless faith in the goodness of existence itself and choose to take that risk. This is a true act of courage; an act that expresses implicit agreement with God's declaration in the book of Genesis that the world and everything in it, including the human race, is "good."
Date posted: 2021-07-30
The fight against the culture of death is a fight for lives and for souls. However, it is also a fight for the freedom of Christians to live their lives and raise their families in accordance with their beliefs, and to participate on equal terms in the public square.
Date posted: 2021-07-30
Though feminist groups and the mainstream media typically present hormonal contraceptives as a boon for women, they overlook the serious side effects reported in mainstream scientific literature, either through deliberate intent or negligence. Women who regularly ingest the powerful steroids in all modern hormonal methods of birth control will find that they usually suffer a wide range of side effects.
Date posted: 2021-07-30
Abortion is one of the foremost causes of suffering in the world, and one of the least acknowledged. The child in the womb suffers in silence, and the mother carries grief, shame, and guilt. A cruel irony of abortion is that the number of people involved is at least two, but enduring silence often follows. A human life ceases to exist where mere minutes and seconds before a distinct person was forming in the womb.
Date posted: 2021-07-13
During a year when one of the most pro-abortion presidential administrations in history is pushing abortion every chance that it gets, it can be strangely comforting to read abortion-related news coming from pro-abortion organizations in the country.
Date posted: 2021-07-03
For Catholics, June is the month of the Sacred Heart, in which we recall and celebrate Christ's redeeming, self-sacrificial love for us. For the world, however, June is now Pride Month - a month-long hedonistic carnival in celebration of a debased concept of "love": one that in many cases reduces love to nothing more than sexual exhibitionism and the exchange of genital pleasure.
Date posted: 2021-07-03
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the begetting and educating of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute very substantially to the welfare of their parents.
Date posted: 2021-07-03
Every child who a woman expects in her womb is a gift that changes a family's history: the life of fathers and mothers, grandparents and of brothers and sisters. That child needs to be welcomed, loved and nurtured. Always!
Date posted: 2021-06-30
For the first time in years, pro-lifers have serious reason to hope that the aim towards which they have worked for so many decades - the end of Roe v. Wade - will finally come about, and as soon as next year.
Date posted: 2021-06-08
To shatter the lies created by the culture of death, which deny the value, dignity, and rights of a person, particularly the unborn, we must alert the complacent to the inherent value of human life, inform consciences to the truth about human dignity, and activate - recruit - people into the "campaign in support of human life." We also know that a human force alone will not cast out the darkness of abortion and its repulsive industry and sever the grip of the culture of death. To defeat evil and counteract the culture of death, we need to bend our knees in prayer, do penance, and offer reparation.
Date posted: 2021-05-29
A preoccupation with the pleasures of earthly life has provoked a war of the powerful against the vulnerable. And once people identify the purpose of human existence as limited to this temporal world, anyone – i.e., the unborn child, elderly, sick, handicapped, and dying – who stands in their way is a threat and is to be eliminated.
Date posted: 2021-05-20
In addition to making it easier for women to obtain abortions during the pandemic, telemedicine abortions are also a handy way for abortion groups to bypass the growing number of pro-life laws at the state level. Already, the number of medical abortions is exploding, with over 40% of all abortions in the U.S. now being performed using pills. Some abortion activists have already said that if the U.S. were to overturn Roe v. Wade, and if states then made abortion completely illegal, they would simply illegally mail abortion pills to women.
Date posted: 2021-05-06
In recent years, pro-lifers have exposed the gruesome, ongoing practice of harvesting and buying and selling the body parts of aborted children for medical research.
Date posted: 2021-05-05
According to the dictionary, to have a “phobia” is to have an “irrational fear” of something. What CNN is stating, therefore, is that if you believe that men who claim to be women are not, in fact, women, then you have an “irrational fear” of transgender people. You are mentally ill. This is, quite simply, gaslighting.
Date posted: 2021-05-04
How is it still possible to speak of the dignity of every human person when the killing of the weakest and most innocent is permitted? In the name of what justice is the most unjust of discriminations practised: some individuals are held to be deserving of defence and others are denied that dignity?
Date posted: 2021-04-26
I had to read those paragraphs several times just to make sure that I understood them correctly. I honestly could not believe that one of the world's most powerful media companies was really saying what I thought they were saying. But they were.
Date posted: 2021-04-15
The Church, in teaching that the sexual act is reserved for life-long unions of a man and a woman, is not against sex or against love. Instead, the Church is for sex and for love, including love for children, who have a right to be born into a stable union, and to be raised by a mother and a father. The problem with same-sex unions, or other sinful sexual relationships, is not that two people love one another, but that their love is expressed in a way that misuses and reduces the gift of sexuality, and thereby harms themselves and others.
Date posted: 2021-04-15
Objectively speaking, there is only one appropriate response to the news that a new human life has come into existence: gratitude. Every human life is such a miracle that we ought to be awestruck every time we learn that a child has been conceived. Every child, without exception, is a gift from God and is to be welcomed, loved, and protected.
Date posted: 2021-04-15
If fathers are to help their families withstand the attacks that are so ubiquitous in our time, they need the example of St. Joseph, so that they might become the strong leaders who are capable of leading their family towards holiness, modelling authentic love and service.
Date posted: 2021-04-15
What are we doing to ourselves, and to our children? This is a question I am pondering a lot as of late, as I watch our nation, and so many parts of the world, racing to embrace ever more extreme and ever more destructive forms of anti-life and anti-family ideology.
Date posted: 2021-03-23
Something very odd happens whenever a spiritual leader publicly defends some unpopular moral principle. Inevitably, people react with outrage, accusing the spiritual leader of restricting their "freedom," and telling them to mind their own business.
Date posted: 2021-03-09
Is human life intrinsically sacred, or is it only valuable when it meets certain criteria? So much rides on how we answer this question. The Judeo-Christian answer is that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, and that as a consequence every human person, regardless of their characteristics, possesses the same moral worth as any other. However, there is another view. This was the view explicitly defended by eugenicists in the early twentieth century. And it is the view implicitly present in countless acts of genocide, murder, and enslavement across history.
Date posted: 2021-03-02
The way to fight evil is to cast light on it. The reason so many people have convinced themselves that the evil of abortion is no big deal, is because abortion takes place in the hiddenness of the mother's womb, behind the closed doors of abortion clinic operating rooms. In this darkness people do not see, or think, about the broken, mutilated bodies of the victims of abortion - unborn children.
Date posted: 2021-02-20
It is a difficult time for pro-life Catholics worldwide, who are scrambling to figure out how to respond to the fact that the world's most powerful politician - President Joe Biden - routinely touts his "devout" Catholic faith, while simultaneously promoting such evils as abortion and a radical form of the LGBT agenda. We have every reason to expect that this is only the beginning of the administration's four-year assault on life, marriage, family, and religious freedom. As the Catholic writer Mary Eberstadt put it, "If we believe our Catholic faith, then the divides over abortion and related issues of Christian anthropology aren't just about politics. They are not mere exercises in Philosophy 101. There are souls on the line."
Date posted: 2021-02-12
"The family has a special role to play throughout the life of its members, from birth to death. It is truly 'the sanctuary of life: the place in which life – the gift of God – can be properly welcomed and protected against the many attacks to which it is exposed, and can develop in accordance with what constitutes authentic human growth.' Consequently, the role of the family in building a culture of life is decisive and irreplaceable." - Pope St. John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 92
Date posted: 2021-01-13
There are many, many problems with Pornhub and MindGeek, beginning with the fact that they traffic in porn, which is a dehumanizing industry that reduces vulnerable men, women, and children to objects to be consumed. However, one of the most disturbing problems with Pornhub is its complete and utter heedlessness about the massive amounts of outright illegal, violent, misogynistic, and morally heinous content that users upload and view on the site on a daily basis.
Date posted: 2020-12-26
Beyond a doubt, one of the gravest threats to the freedom of Christians in many Western nations right now is posed by the efforts of LGBT activists to outlaw any form of dissent from their progressive sexual ideology.
Date posted: 2020-12-26
We once believed that we destroyed the beast of eugenics on the beaches of Normandy in World War II. But we hadn't killed it; instead, we simply thrust it underground, and then allowed it to creep back into our hospitals, laboratories, and universities. To eradicate eugenics, we must drive a knife into the very heart of its poisonous philosophy.
Date posted: 2020-12-07
Aging or seriously ill adults, who are no longer of any "use," can be extremely "inconvenient," in the same way an unborn baby can be inconvenient. Those who are responsible for caring for them must often make significant changes to their lives, sacrificing time and resources to comfort and care for the suffering and dying.
Date posted: 2020-11-27
Parents, pay attention to what your children are listening to. That is the first lesson from the stratospheric success of the so-called "song," WAP, recently released by a so-called "artist" named Cardi-B.
Date posted: 2020-10-02
A recent poll found that 62% of Americans have political views that they are afraid to express publicly because others might find them "offensive." This is up from 58% in 2017. This poll adds to a growing body of evidence confirming what many of us began to suspect years ago – that civil discourse is breaking down.
Date posted: 2020-10-02
Over at First Things last week, Prof. Robert George published a clever thought experiment. Prof. George, in case you don't know, is one of the rarest of specimens these days – an openly and proudly pro-life, pro-family, and faithfully Catholic faculty member at an Ivy League university, in this case Princeton University.
Date posted: 2020-09-28
Several times in the Bible these words are spoken either by Christ to His disciples, or by angels to those chosen for some task. "Do not be afraid!" the angel Gabriel said in greeting to Mary. "It is I," Christ called out to his terrified disciples, as He walked on the waters. "Do not be afraid!"
Date posted: 2020-09-28
Abortion supporters want us to accept that abortion is an act of compassion that saves women from the burdens and the cost of raising children, especially in "hard cases." If a child, before birth, is declared as suffering from a serious illness or malformation, abortion supporters will assert that, if the pregnancy is allowed to continue, the child will have a life that will not be worth living. They focus on the child's condition, saying the best and most effective way to help the child is to terminate the child's life. Abortion, thus, is recommended out of "compassion." Of course, this is bogus.
Date posted: 2020-08-30
Predictions show that unless there is a dramatic reversal in fertility trends, 23 nations, including Spain, Japan and Thailand, are likely to see their populations be cut in half by 2100. The authors also estimate that 151 nations by the year 2050 will have a birth rate that is below replacement level (about 2.1 children born per woman).
Date posted: 2020-08-22
The mainstream media has suddenly awoken to the fact that China is a genocidal regime. In a chilling and in-depth report, the Associated Press (AP) has documented the evidence that the Chinese government is crushing the Uighurs and other predominantly-Muslim populations in the Xinjiang province through widespread forced sterilization and abortion, and internment in concentration camps.
Date posted: 2020-08-22
Abortion does not solve problems. Instead, it profits off the destruction of one life and the grave wounding of another. It depersonalizes women and exploits them and their situation. It dehumanizes and devalues the life of a baby, pitting a mother against her child. It also fragments the image of mother and child and in doing so, motherhood itself is devalued. This has disastrous consequences for society and culture. And finally, it portrays motherhood as a threat to a woman's independence, success, and value as a person.
Date posted: 2020-08-11
To examine Sanger's writings is to take a trip into a horrific world of dehumanizing rhetoric and even more dehumanizing practical programs. For Sanger the world was divided into the "fit" and the "unfit" – those who she deemed worthy of being allowed to reproduce, so as to increase the quality of the human race, and those who should be forcibly prevented from reproducing through compulsory sterilization and segregation.
Date posted: 2020-08-11
The family is the original cell of social life. It is the natural society in which husband and wife are called to give themselves in love and in the gift of life. Authority, stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the foundations for freedom, security, and fraternity within society. The family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral values, begin to honor God, and make good use of freedom. Family life is an initiation into life in society.
Date posted: 2020-07-04
For two millennia Christians have imitated the Samaritan. Wherever Christianity has spread, networks of hospitals, orphanages, schools, food banks, homes for the elderly, leprosy and AIDS hospices, and more have sprung up, indiscriminately offering charity to anyone and everyone in need. Such charitable works are the natural and inevitable expression of what it means to be a Christian.
Date posted: 2020-06-15
We must defend and state unambiguously that a human child, a being of intrinsic worth and dignity - a person - has the right to be engendered through the fruitful union of his parents and is not a product to be bought or sold. Furthermore, it is time to end surrogacy - this form of modern-day slavery - and its blatant assault upon women, children, and the goods of marriage as designed by God.
Date posted: 2020-05-25
Watching the progress of the transgender movement is like watching a train wreck in high speed. This ideological behemoth is hurtling through our culture at breakneck speed. But those driving the train seem utterly heedless of the path of destruction and horror they are leaving in their wake.
Date posted: 2020-03-05
Our modern world has turned its back on marriage because it has inaugurated the cult of the ego. Our world overtly lionizes the individual, isolated ego, asserting its own will, regardless of whether this in fact contributes to the well-being and flourishing of the individual. To "assert" is assumed to be the only good. To be "free," in the sense of being isolated, is assumed to be inherently better. And yet, what many lonely souls are learning, to their chagrin, is that unfettered, lonely "freedom" is no freedom at all.
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