55 years ago today, Saint Paul VI promulgated Humanae Vitae, the historic encyclical that affirms the Church’s teaching on marriage, family, and children. It was a prophetic warning that flew in the face of the Sexual Revolution, and Cardinal James Stafford saw its impact on the ground as a young Baltimore priest in 1968. Cardinal …
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The abortion industry never stops lying, and its latest is a doozy. “The idea of virginity comes from outdated — let’s be real, patriarchal — ways of thinking that hurts everyone.” That’s a recent proclamation from none other than Planned Parenthood, an organization whose very existence is threatened by any semblance of self-mastery or composure. The absurdity of …
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“Catholics are divided about what to think of the transgender movement,” writes Dr. William Kilpatrick, who has authored several classics in the field of studies of culture and politics. “On the one hand, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops warns Catholics against attempts to redesign God’s creation through medical interventions such as puberty blockers …
Americans, including Utahns, are having fewer babies every year. Americans feel that parenthood is too hard, and millennials don’t seem up to it at all — and “too expensive” and “selfish” are the two explanations I hear the most from millennials or their frustrated elders. But who’s having babies? “The single greatest predictor of a …
As the pro-life message spreads more widely throughout the West, secular governments on the Left have concocted increasingly strident measures to prohibit any public manifestation of support for the unborn near the facilities dedicated to their extinction. The Biden Administration prosecutes pro-life demonstrators as potential terrorists, and it is not alone: the United Kingdom and …
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“It’s no coincidence that in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the response from abortion advocates has gotten uglier,” says Professor Helen Alvare, a religious liberty expert at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University in Virginia. “The pro-life response must now focus on fundamentals,” she writes. “We …
Marriage rates in the United States have fallen big time, and, with that decline, a lot of other indicators are going downhill as well. Marriage is the best path for the young in terms of personal flourishing, economic stability, and happiness. The young singles drifting into their thirties often complain of loneliness as they suffer …
Doctors have known for years that the oral contraceptives increase a woman’s risk of cancer. Now comes a disheartening report of the risk of serious emotional damage as well. Many pediatricians and other practitioners routinely recommend the pill to girls in their early teens. Could that account for the rising number of emotional and psychological …
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We recall that, after the angel Gabriel had departed after the Annunciation, Mary “went into the hill country with haste” to visit her cousin Elizabeth. “And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.” That’s right. Long before …
On May 30, the Vatican issued a new document sounding an alarm about declining birth rates worldwide. The text also reaffirms the Church’s teaching on family, marriage, and children, as contained in Humanae Vitae, the 1968 encyclical of St. Paul VI. The document, entitled Global Family Compact, is an initiative of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and the Vatican’s Dicastery for …
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