Sometimes life is stranger than art. Suppose you were a novelist, and your book's protagonist is the genderqueer founder of a web start-up who calls herself Sebastian. Suppose the novel charts this character’s further transformation into a stay-at-home mom now going by her birth name of Mary and . . . . Continue Reading »
For the first time, an oral contraceptive is going to be available without a prescription. This “new chapter in reproductive health” is likely to be a grim one. Continue Reading »
C. S. Lewis's writings betray no formal stance on contraception, though a close reading reveals his critical gaze on the topic, prohibited from speech by a sense of prudence. Continue Reading »
Though Roe has been overturned, it doesn't look like the landmark cases that made contraception, sodomy, and same-sex marriage constitutional rights are going anywhere. Continue Reading »
In previous times, people who did not agree with the teaching of Humanae Vitae or Donum Vitae simply said that they begged to differ. The new approach, adopted by the PAV, is to state the opposite of the teaching, while at the same time claiming that one agrees. Continue Reading »
A morbid obsession with safety jettisons life in order to preserve life. Continue Reading »
The Little Sisters of the Poor are in a Supreme Court sequel because of “progressive” politicians’ unrelenting opposition to any religious exercise that might complicate their vision of the good life. Continue Reading »
Children are gifts. In them, we respond to Moses’s urgent imperative: Choose life! (Deut. 30:19) Men and women have always brought children into the world. To be a parent is the most natural of things. It is fundamental to what it means to be human. Yet the birth of a child is also an . . . . Continue Reading »
The new “Affirmation of Baptismal Faith” erodes the Church of England’s claim to bear witness to the one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. Continue Reading »
I was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the famous Haight-Ashbury district. It gave me a front-row seat at the beginning of what we now refer to as the sexual revolution. I watched as the young women around me gave in to the onslaught. It was only later . . . . Continue Reading »
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