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New York bishops say gender-neutral language law 'mocks the foundation of the family'
Under the new law, "mother" would be replaced with "gestating parent," and "father" would become "non-gestating parent."

Image vs. Truth: Bodily Confusion in a Virtual World
From Evie Estes with Ruah Woods Institute: "The Church does not teach that our bodies are perfect in their present state or that appearances are irrelevant. It teaches something deeper: our bodies have dignity because they are animated by a spiritual soul & our sexual identity is part of this unity."

Pope to grandparents and elderly: God's loving eyes are upon you at all times
The Pope acknowledged that quite a few elderly people share the painful feeling of being forgotten, especially as they experience loneliness or sometimes being reduced to a bed number or illness.

How Can Anyone Defend Transgender Sports After This?!
Allowing boys to compete in girls sports isn't just wrong--a new lawsuit reveals that it can make girls vulnerable to sexual assault, even alleged vaginal penetration. Yes, according to a verified complaint filed in a federal court Tuesday, a young man who claimed to identify as female not only competed against a teenage girl in girls' wrestling, but also digitally penetrated her vagina, causing lasting pain." How can anyone defend transgender sports policies after this?

What Parents Need to Know About AI Deepfakes and Teen Safety
AI-generated deepfakes are no longer a future concern--they're already impacting schools, friendships, and the lives of young people. This article explores how deepfake technology is being used, why teens are particularly vulnerable, and what parents can do to help navigate a rapidly changing digital landscape. Deepfake abuse is becoming increasingly accessible and widespread, creating new risks for youth online.

Meet The Man Urging Mothers Not To Abort 'Inconvenient' Babies Like Him
Ryan Bomberger was conceived in rape, yet his mother chose life. While serving in the military, Bomberger?s mother, Sharon, was raped and refused an abortion. Instead, she put her son up for adoption, ?a decision,? Bomberger said, ?that has caused beautiful generational reverberations.?

Most Women 'Blindsided' by Abortion Drug Side Effects: Study
These days, it's hard to go a few weeks without bumping into another horrifying story about a man drugging his pregnant girlfriend, wife, or daughter with the abortion drug. But as disturbing as those headlines have been, coercion doesn't always take the form of an angry man. Sometimes, it's a misleading abortion doctor or the impatient Planned Parenthood worker who refuses to tell the truth about mifepristone or a woman's options.

1,126,760 Babies Killed in Abortions in 2025 as Mail-Order Abortions Skyrocket
The Society of Family Planning estimates that 1,126,760 abortions took place in calendar year 2025. This represents a 1.6 percent increase from 2024.

"My Voice, My Choice" and the Silence Beneath It
The Church reminds the modern world that voice itself is a gift, received before it is exercised. Perhaps the most urgent question is not whose voice will prevail, but whether we still remember the One who spoke us into being.

Pope Leo Blasts Abortion: "Every Human Life Must be Safeguarded From Conception"
The Pope told Spanish lawmakers that ?every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence.?

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Who Decides When A Life Is Valuable?

Worthy? Who decides? When hospitals, media, and policy accept ending or withholding life for the vulnerable, I see how we begin to treat some people as less than fully human - problems to manage rather than neighbors to love. In this article I ask who judges a life's value and move from institutions to the everyday moments where dignity is made or denied: a hurried bedside conversation, a refused invitation, a steady presence. Drawing on my Catholic faith, Scripture, and stories of the elderly, disabled, and marginalized, I examine how assumptions about usefulness erode worth and offer practical compassion - listening, shared meals, sacramental care - that restores dignity and says, "You matter." Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Imperfect Pro-Life Lawmaking in Post-Dobbs America

Stephen G. Gilles
By re-energizing a state's pro-life base and attracting enough swing voters to tip the scales, the movement can make real, even if "imperfect," progress toward ending elective abortion in America.

New! Against False Technological Necessity

Emily Hancock
AI can shift how we communicate with one another, what work looks like for many roles, how relationships unfold, and how we order our lives. Much of our reaction to these projects reflects the understanding that this technology has the power to reshape the way humanity marches into the future, and not always in a way that serves the greater good.

New! Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

Bill Muehlenberg
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical confronts the promises and perils of artificial intelligence, urging humanity to defend human dignity in an increasingly dehumanised age.

New! Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Task of Being Human

Gregory E. Ganssle
Both Jesus and Nietzsche announce in the same sort of bold terms their own visions of life and death; prosperity and adversity. They set before us two paths to consider: one leading toward the flourishing life and one leading toward death. One toward liberation and one into oppression. Which path will we choose?

New! Canada's Euthanasia Regime: Efficiency and Death vs. True Compassion and Dignity

Shenan J. Boquet
Euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering, a solution that is not worthy of man. The real answer cannot be, in fact, to give death, as 'gentle' as this may be, but to testify to the love that helps us to face pain and agony in a humane way.

Getting dating advice from an app

Tamara Rajakariar
Women love advising other women when it comes to guys. As a girl, I can vouch for this. And a new app called Lulu is letting women do this even more - but you get to "advise" women that you've never met, regarding guys that they're potentially interested in.

Lack of knowledge KILLED three of my babies

Judie Brown
In 1973, at age 33, I was happily married and had three young children, but we wanted to wait a while before trying for another baby. So, I went to my obstetrician-gynecologist for help in postponing pregnancy, and he "helped" me by inserting an intrauterine device. He did not explain to me that the IUD's sole purpose is to prevent the embryonic baby from implanting in the womb and that the IUD almost always causes the death of a developing boy or girl through early abortion.

'Free love' '60s? Not quite

Judith Reisman
Grossman gives scholarly kudos to two doctors who had testified to sex education dangers despite the "attacks" and "backlash" against their critical findings. Being familiar with such attacks, I value Grossman's ethical, well-deserved recognition of others. Remember, George Orwell warned that social control is based on erasing the public memory of its past! PC teaching erases our history and creates scientific and medical lies to suborn a Kinseyan pansexual "Brave New World."

Homosexual acts remain illegal in Kenya

Mathew Otieno
A three-judge bench at the Kenyan High Court in Nairobi recently upheld sections of the country's penal code that criminalise homosexual intercourse. A suit to repeal these parts had been brought to the court by a coalition of LGBT advocacy groups, which claimed that they contravened the Constitution's provisions on privacy and freedom from discrimination.

The Violence of Euthanasia in Canada

Shenan J. Boquet
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.

USAID Funding of Sterilization Camps in India, Part 2

Steven Mosher
Earlier this week, we released a report outlining some of the horrors of India's sterilization camps. We called the world's attention to the US Agency for International Development's complicity in coercive sterilization camps in India. Among the evidence was a report published by the OECD describing a multi-million dollar program by USAID to reduce fertility in India.

All the Cool Girls Are Transitioning
An Epidemic of Teenage Gender Confusion

John Stonestreet
Peer pressure almost never pushes teenagers to good places. Recently, it's been pushing them to the gender clinic.

What's Scariest: Facebook, Google . . . or Us?

Nathanael Blake
Facebook or Google taking over the world is a distant, speculative fear. Being harassed, humiliated, shunned and unemployed are immediate fears. We increasingly live in a digital panopticon ruled as much by mobs as by the overseers.

The Ethics of Abortion: Clarifying Misconceptions

Melissa Moschella
Articulating and responding to common misconceptions concerning the ethics of abortion will help to clarify and advance the debate, moving past misleading slogans to engage in a forthright and respectful public dialogue in the wake of Dobbs, and seeking to build a genuine culture of life that supports the needs of both women and children.

Organ Transplants, 'Brain Death,' and Church Teaching

Judie Brown
When an organ transplant counts as a success, and the failure to obtain a vital organ may mean the death of another patient, doctors will always be under pressure to declare a potential donor dead. The "brain death" diagnosis makes it far easier for a doctor to reach that conclusion - and there are multiple different standards for "brain death," creating confusion and multiplying the possibilities for abuse. In the early 21st century, when the medical profession has shown an alarming propensity for exploiting one human person to benefit another, we should demand more rigor in defining death.