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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.

Protecting the Sibling
Stephanie Winn (LMFT) discusses the impact of trans-identification on families and siblings. She writes, "When one child in a family transitions -- especially an older child who has influence, charisma, or the mystique of rebellion -- parents naturally worry about the other children. Will the younger sibling follow?...Not every younger sibling is equally vulnerable. Understanding the risk and protective factors helps you calibrate your response."

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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! Thoughts on Romantic Love, Sexuality and Matrimony

Douglas McManaman
In romantic love, the one who has fallen in love sees the beloved as God sees the beloved. But this can only happen if God gives the one who is in love (the lover) a sharing in the way He sees the beloved. And so, this is a grace; it is an illumination. And that is why in the experience of falling in love, the one in love is very much preoccupied with the beloved, thinks of the beloved a great deal more than he or she otherwise would.

New! Embryo Personhood

Judie Brown
The simple fact that every human being has a similar beginning as a single cell fertilized egg seems to be more than some people can comprehend. This came into stark focus when we read Professor Risa Cromer's article entitled "Embryo Personhood's IVF Problem: What the Data Reveals."

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

Philip Irvin
What if we replace traditional pronouns with biological chromosome labels XY and XX? A strategy to push back against transgender ideology and reclaim gender as biologically determined.

New! The Bard for the Dance Between the Sexes

Adeline A. Allen
Marriage and family are among the basic goods of the good life, of flourishing, of delights. Shakespeare is cheering us on. May we take heart and enter the dance.

New! Healthy Sex Education for Catholic Families: How Do I Teach My Child about Sex and Chastity?

Susan Ciancio
Awkward. Embarrassing. Uncomfortable. Any or all of these words are likely to describe the way that parents feel when they think about teaching kids about sex. But acknowledging and overcoming these feelings - one of the more difficult parts of Catholic parenthood - is incredibly necessary if we are to raise children who see themselves as gifts to others and who then go out into the world to live as gifts.

Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground (1925): a reevaluation of a classic feminist novel.

Jeff J. Koloze
Ellen Glasgow's 1925 classic work of feminist fiction is reevaluated from the perspective of a contemporary pro-life literary theorist.

Playboy targets kids by stripping Marge Simpson

Judith Reisman
In July 2007, Playboy marketed "The Best Call Girl In Vegas," providing her alleged name, website, address, sex acts and rates per act. It may shock the innocent, but the (illegal) prostitution site was stamped with the copyrighted Playboy bunny logo; the woman is a Playboy product.

Conscientious objectors barred from qualification in UK

Xavier Symons
The UK Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynacologists has barred doctors and nurses from qualifications if they refuse to prescribe or administer contraceptives to patients.

Abortion Linked to More Deaths than Coffee

David C. Reardon
Instead of reporting on the verifiable scientific facts surrounding abortion, major media outlets are committed to killing coverage of any studies that contradict either of the two most essential pro-abortion myths: (1) abortion has no risks, and (2) women only have abortions when it improves their lives.

How trafficking scams work

Barbara Kralis
Human trafficking takes root in industries that already are known to have labor violations — sub-poverty wages, no benefits, no labor relations, and illegal immigrants. Trafficking does not have its own common business model or principle, but will cleverly mimic lawful global industries and cultures.

Transgender Ideology and Parental Rights

Shenan J. Boquet
Since they have conferred life on their children, parents have the original, primary and inalienable right to educate them; hence they must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children.... The primary right of parents to educate their children must be upheld in all forms of collaboration between parents, teachers and school authorities.

Some Thoughts on the Value of Silence

Douglas McManaman
Synopsis: The human person has two interiors: a spatial interior, and a supra-sensible interior. The latter is the deepest and most intimate part of you. You only share your deepest sentiments and intentions with the one you trust the most, for this realm is your most intimate sanctuary. If a person is uncomfortable in silence and when alone, then that person is uncomfortable with his or her deepest self.

British Steps Toward Euthanasia

Steven Mosher
Could the United Kingdom's gradual slide into the culture of death show where Western Civilization is going, and fast? In the Netherlands, the routine killing of the ailing aged and disabled newborns, even without their parents' or loved ones' consent, has become public knowledge. The rest of Europe does not seem far behind, and recent developments in Britain, the nation perhaps most similar to the United States, could tell us euthanasia's future in developed nations.

Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan Politicians as archetypes of destruction

Asia Human Rights
In the Sri Lankan mind, politicians are thought to be engaged in the destruction of the lives of the people and the foundations of the nation.

Sexual Activity in Perspective

Douglas McManaman
The problem with the current cultural understanding of the sexual act is that it is the result of trying to understand it in isolation from the entire human context. A part can only be understood in relation to the whole, and sexual activity is not a whole unto itself, but only a part of a larger meaning, namely marriage, which in turn is part of a larger meaning. The vehement pleasure associated with sex has diverted our gaze much like the misdirection of a good magician, diverting the audience's attention away from what is really taking place before them.