Culture of Life

The United States is one of the few developed countries in the world that does not require employers to offer working mothers paid maternity leave.

Responding to such intimate and consequential questions is a tremendous responsibility, one that can only bear good fruit when it is founded in prayer.

Modern culture is inundating us with gender ideology, the belief that everyone can choose for themselves whether they are male, female, both, neither, or something in between.

The life of faith is most challenging when it comes to real-life decisions, especially on culturally contested and complex issues.

It has been nearly 40 years since Pope St. John Paul II, in his magnificent encyclical Evangelium Vitae, exhorted “all people of good will” to build a “culture of life” to counter the “culture of death” that was all too evident in the history of the 20th century.

Humanity needs the presence of God and the Church, despite the world’s insistence that it does not.

Mark Houck, a steady, peaceful activist on behalf of the unborn, has been prayerfully present for years at Philadelphia’s Planned Parenthood, the largest killer of babies in Pennsylvania, to witness and counsel mothers, dissuading them from the tragedy of handing over their child to abortionists.

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.