Naught for our Comfort

by Carl R. Trueman

New statistics from Pew are most discouraging, and most predictable. Continue Reading »

4 Nov 2015

While We're At It

by R. R. Reno

Good for Carly Fiorina. She challenged complacency about our abortion regime. Referring to the tapes released this summer that exposed Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of body parts from aborted children, at the second Republican primary debate she said, “I dare Hillary ­Clinton [and] Barack . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2015

Don't Kill the Moon

by Alexi Sargeant

The long-running British sci-fi staple Doctor Who has quietly become one of the most pro-life shows on television. Under the tenure of showrunner Steven Moffat, there has been a strong pro-life subtext for several seasons of Doctor Who. Even before Moffat took the reins of the show, he wrote a pair . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2015

This is Your Wake-Up Call

by Betsy Childs Howard

This is not the first time that a needed wake-up call has been delivered by a gruesome mailing. Continue Reading »

26 Oct 2015

Planned Parenthood is Nothing to Smile About

by Wesley J. Smith

The videos of Planned Parenthood employees bragging about performing “less crunchy” abortions in order to harvest intact organs set off a political firestorm. The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2015

What Francis Said—And Didn't Say—To Congress

by R. R. Reno

It was a modest speech, one generous to the American experience but lacking in the sharpness this pontiff is sometimes capable of.  The repeated use of the term “dialogue” was irritating. It's a buzzword among today's technocrats. They use it as a softening word, one that signals that . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Sep 2015

A Response to Janet Smith's “Benign Reading” of Paragraph 137

by David S. Crawford

On September 10, we published “An Appeal,” endorsed by a long list of fellow scholars. The Appeal sharply criticized paragraph 137 of the Instrumentum laboris for the upcoming Synod on the family. In her “A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph,” Janet Smith offered a thoughtful . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Sep 2015

Planned Parenthood Is a Racket

by Eric Banecker

It would happen the same way every time.A few tough-looking guys would show up on the doorstep of a new business. They came offering “protection services” for a certain fee as a most generous favor to the owner. These services were necessary, it would be explained, because this was a “bad . . . . Continue Reading »

21 Sep 2015

Fiorina Was Right

by Glenn T. Stanton

One of the biggest moments in this second GOP debate was Carly Fiorina deftly taking control of the exchange and pointing it toward the macabre activities at Planned Parenthood—and how the top two leaders of the Democratic party are quite content to defend Planned Parenthood and let them go about . . . . Continue Reading »

18 Sep 2015

Adoption, Abortion, and a Message of Hope

by J. D. Flynn

On Saturday morning, my wife and I took our children to pray outside the Planned Parenthood clinic near our home in Nebraska. Nearly 700 other people joined us—praying on their knees, singing songs of praise, and holding pro-life signs for passing cars to read. Among the signs, I noticed several . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2015