Thank you for printing my friend Fr. Blake Johnson’s excellent piece on women’s ordination (“Mere Priestesses,” May 2024). Although some have misread C. S. Lewis and likely will misread Fr. Johnson as accusing women priests of being sexual deviants, the problem has nothing to do with the act . . . . Continue Reading »
The decision facing voters may be between a pro-abortion party and a pro-choice one. Continue Reading »
The pro-life cause has been sidelined by the Republican Party. This undermines the battle for life. Continue Reading »
The GOP’s marginalization of pro-lifers is similar in some ways to what Democrats did in the 1970s, and a single-issue champion may soon be needed to keep the unborn in clear view. Continue Reading »
The relentless culture war drumbeat that crescendoes in June treats employees like children with minds to be molded or voters to be mobilized rather than adults with jobs to do. Continue Reading »
Lying about abortion has been a hallmark of “pro-choice” politics for decades. Continue Reading »
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a great victory for the pro-life cause. Prior to the 2022 decision, dubious constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court had impeded any effective limits to abortion. And it had given us a Constitution that was—as William Lloyd . . . . Continue Reading »
The pro-life movement needs to resist the transformation of the GOP into a pro-choice party. Continue Reading »
Here is how I buried the body of my fifth child: I took myself to the emergency room because I was in labor and bleeding. The baby on the ultrasound screen lay still in the curve of my belly, its heart silent. Fetal demise resulting from spontaneous abortion, the medical term for miscarriage. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” illustrates how many parts of American society treat the unborn. Continue Reading »
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