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  [Edward Short is the author of several acclaimed books on St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and a contributor to the Human Life Review. The following article appeared in Catholic World Report on September 30, 2021, and is reprinted here with the magazine’s permission.... Read More →

  I have been reading The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc, a play that French poet Charles Peguy wrote more than a century ago. For the French especially, Joan of Arc’s life and death are an inspiring patriotic touchstone to return to in times of national crisis or... Read More →

  I’ve been fingerprinted several times, from our international adoption to TSA Pre-Check. There’s nothing like it for making me feel clumsy—my hands are not my own as someone else rolls my fingers this way and that—or for making me feel like a criminal when I’ve done... Read More →

  We live in a world of contradictions when it comes to many things of great importance in life. Whether we realize it or not, faith in God is the most important aspect of our lives. Since God put us on planet Earth, and God will call us back to himself when our life here... Read More →

  On December 1, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (an abortion clinic), a case challenging the legality of a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn Roe... Read More →

___________________________________________________ LOSING OUR DIGNITY: HOW SECULARIZED MEDICINE IS UNDERMINING FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN EQUALITY Charles C. Camosy (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2021, paperback, 224 pp., $22.95) Reviewed by Wesley J. Smith... Read More →

  THE ABOLITION OF WOMAN: HOW RADICAL FEMINISM IS BETRAYING WOMEN Fiorella Nash (Ignatius Press, 2018, 240 pp., softcover, $17.95) Reviewed by W. Ross Blackburn _________________________________________ The abortion movement is built upon a foundation of euphemism,... Read More →

Just when you think pro-abortion advocates can’t get any more barbaric and inhumane, they prove you wrong. Two appalling bills introduced in state legislatures are the latest example. They want to legalize infanticide. The bills are from California and Maryland, two of the most... Read More →

  So how’d we get here anyway?—this place, this time we live in, with its vacant predicate for the moral responsibilities of human life? A question at least as tangled follows hard on the first one: Given that we’re where we are, what do we do? I invite suggestions. Erika... Read More →

  Dennis Overbye’s 1991 book Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos is a story of solitary cosmologists staring through big telescopes into the night sky.1 In an essay praising Overbye’s work, physicist and popular science writer David Kaiser writes that cosmologists had lonely hearts... Read More →