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Jerry Novotny OMI
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May 20, 2026

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Vatican warns of political promotion of abortion as an instrument of population control
The Vatican has released a new document titled "Integral Ecology in the Life of the Family" aimed at promoting the care of creation and human life within the family, warning against the advancement of certain ideologies that encourage abortion and sterilization as means to control population growth.

Forming Your Children for Chastity: A Letter to Parents
Fr. Carter Griffin: "We have two very formidable weapons: your parental love, the strongest and most powerful love this side of heaven, and God's grace. Together, those two can take on any army of marketers and IT experts and psychologists."

A Parent's Testimony: Truth and Love
This parent's testimony highlights the importance of truth AND love, choosing your battles, maintaining a strong and loving relationship with your child, the dangers of tech use, and much more!

Southwest Airlines Pays Stewardess $1 Million After Firing Her for Being Pro-Life
Southwest Airlines has paid nearly $1 million to a longtime flight attendant it fired for expressing her pro-life religious beliefs.

The babies we're not having
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what demographers have been watching with growing alarm: American women are having fewer children than ever before.

Media continues to push 'polyamory' as the next step in the sexual revolution
Those pushing for polyamory say society is the problem, the law is the problem - and it is your job to minimize the legal fallout of their immorality.

11,105,671 Babies Killed in Abortions Since UK Legalized Abortion 58 Years Ago
The number of abortions in England and Wales has reached a record high.

U.S. fertility rate falls to record lows as births continue to decline
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently revealed that America's fertility rate has fallen to its lowest point in recorded history as fewer women have children and millions postpone pregnancy.

US saw more than 1.12 million abortions in 2025, but actual figures likely higher
New data estimates show the number of abortions in the U.S. remained stable in 2025, totaling some 1.126 million, with apparent declines in out-of-state travel for abortions offset by increasing access to telehealth abortions.

DIY Abortion Returns: From Back Alleys to Bathrooms
For decades, the most potent image deployed in favor of legalized abortion has been the coat hanger. The message has always been blunt: If abortion is not provided by licensed physicians using sanitized instruments, women will resort to desperate and dangerous methods on their own.

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Editorial

Why the Catholic Church Opposes 'In Vitro Fertilization'

Since the birth of the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has provided hope and a path to parenthood for many couples who cannot conceive naturally. The Catholic Church, however, has consistently rejected IVF - not out of hostility to suffering couples, but because of deeper beliefs about marriage, human life, and the dignity of the human person. The Church opposes IVF largely because the process usually creates multiple embryos in a laboratory. Some are implanted, but others are frozen, discarded, or destroyed. Since the Church views each embryo as a human life, this loss of embryos is considered morally unacceptable. The inherent dignity of a human person deserves full moral and legal respect and protection. The Church teaches that embryos must never be treated merely as a means to an end. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! What is Freedom of Religion?

Mike Johns
We need philosophical arguments to counter the empty voluntarism of our time, and this is a challenge the Church should meet head-on.

New! Fostering Love and Compassion

Susan Ciancio
Kathleen and Ron have been foster parents for most of their 35 years of marriage, and in addition to raising four children of their own, they have now fostered over 200 children. Throughout those years, they have seen atrocities that most people cannot even imagine, but the love and joy they have brought to children and their families is immeasurable.

New! Reject the Lie of Radical Gender Ideology - Use MY "Preferred Pronouns" Instead

Philip Irvin
This is a test. Answer this typical diversity question, "What are your preferred pronouns?" The correct answer is "None." I do not have any pronouns that are based on my preferences. My pronouns are based on biology.

New! Egypt Condemns Christian Apologist to Five Years' Hard Labour for Criticising Islam on YouTube

Rod Lampard
A YouTuber with 100,000 subscribers, Dr Augustinos Samaan now faces five years' hard labour after Egyptian courts convicted him of blasphemy in a secret trial.

New! IVF and Surrogacy: Pandora's Box

Jean Seah
Growing access to IVF and surrogacy raises serious ethical concerns - from exploitation of young women and donor identity risks, to the destruction of millions of embryos.

The Angelic Doctor and the Birth Control Pill
Why Aquinas Was Kept out of Humanae Vitae

Anthony Zimmerman
Thomas and Humanae Vitae. Ban on contraception is necessary for the common good.

Wedlock as crime-stopper

Nicole M. King
In Florida, it is still technically illegal for an unmarried man and woman to live together, but that might be about to change.

UK transgender woman wants to be both father and mother

Michael Cook
Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproductive technology. The third place contestant in the UK's first Miss Transgender beauty competition wants to be the first Briton to be both father and mother of a child.

Sleepless Nights and the Fear of Dying

Judie Brown
A recent headline brought a chilling awareness that life is no longer valuable at any stage. The headline from a British newspaper reads, "Fearful elderly people carry 'anti-euthanasia cards.'"

Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? Jesus Is Myth Become Fact

John Stonestreet
To celebrate Christmas well, focused on Christ as opposed to "stuff," we do more than repeat old traditions. We are glorifying the King of Kings who came to save His people from darkness and make all things new.

There's No Christian Case for Abortion

John Stonestreet
Liberal clergy may call the sacrilege of abortion "sacred," but the evidence from Church history that Christianity was pro-life from the beginning is as clear as the scientific evidence today that babies in the womb are human beings.

Moral Traffic Jam

Judie Brown
Webster says a traffic jam is "a situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly." If we juxtapose moral principles - the Ten Commandments - with these impediments, we can look at today's cultural chaos as the most severe traffic jam in human history.

What Is Freedom?

Judie Brown
In the secular world, freedom is defined by Webster as "the quality or state of being free: such as a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action" and "b: liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another." But for Catholics, freedom means something more.

Re-examining a controversial gay parenting study

Carolyn Moynihan
The journal Demography has published a reexamination of a 2010 study that found no significant differences between same-sex and opposite-sex parenting outcomes.

One Small Snip for Man, One Giant Snip for Mankind

Steven Mosher
For most of the world, today is Friday, a happy day that leads into the weekend. For Paul Ehrlich and Dr. Doug Stein, however, today is World Vasectomy Day!