Culture of Life

It is common to hear from certain groups, especially those with an interest in promoting birth control, that increased access to and use of contraception will reduce the numbers of abortions.

Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah. Anna and Elizabeth. The stories of these women and their anguished cries to God for the gift of children are deeply ingrained in the Tradition.

Making sound moral judgments takes a variety of skills. Obviously, one must have a general sense of right and wrong and be able to apply that knowledge to the case at hand.

Five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission...

In September, a federal judge ruled that two Texas business owners cannot be forced to provide health insurance coverage for “PrEP” drugs if it violated their religious beliefs.

I received my son’s diagnosis when I was 36 weeks pregnant.

In Evangelium Vitae, his 1995 landmark encyclical on the “Gospel of Life,” Pope St. John Paul II wrote: “Especially significant is the reawakening of ethical reflection on issues affecting life.

There is one thing for certain besides taxes, and that is death. The Covid-19 pandemic enhances this reality.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of pregnancies and abortion-vulnerable women coming to the St. John Paul II Life Center and Vitae Clinic in Austin, TX, greatly increased.

The moral acceptability of using abortion-derived cell lines in research has been an area of debate in Catholic bioethics for some time. The Magisterium first weighed in over a decade ago.

Prenatal Genetic Screening (PGS) has become routine and is the source of many concerning stories and statistics.

Catholic schools operate on a shoestring, struggling to stay open each year. Does the Church have the bandwidth to assume the education of children with special needs?

During the past year and a half, individuals, families, and communities have experienced the fullness of social isolation, unfamiliar public health restrictions, long-term uncertainty, elevated anxiety, depression, suicidality, and escalations of mental health uncertainty.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the very concept of imago Dei and is demanding consideration of how far we will go to deny our inevitable death.

Medical decisions such as COVID-19 vaccination should not be based primarily on external pressures

Video is such a powerful medium that sometimes no amount of media manipulation, either by deliberate magnification or intentional disregard, can reduce the arresting nature of an event so captured.

You drive through a beautiful city park to arrive at my senior care community. As you approach the entrance, you see the American flag unfurling as it is lowered reverently from the flagpole in the middle of the green. It is 5 p.m., and this respectful ceremony is repeated every day.

The year 2014 saw a statistic that had not occured in decades: human life expectancy in this country declined. That decline has been attributed to alcoholism, drug overdoses, and suicides — diseases of despair. This phenomenon preceded COVID, which then exacerbated the problem.

Jérôme Lejeune, a French medical doctor and worldclass geneticist, was declared venerable — the first step on the road to canonization — on the eve of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that “discovered” a constitutional right to abortion.

In our time of loneliness, made worse by the frailty of families, the withering of community life, and the mutual suspicion of the sexes, many turn to same-sex relations as something, anything to make their lives bearable.