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Christians in Britain are facing growing persecution, and the cases are mounting. Isabelle von Spruce, co-director of March for Life UK, is reportedly facing further legal harassment for silently praying outside an abortion center.
Read →Kristan Hawkins, head of Students for Life of America, posted on X: “For my Catholic friends on X, if you know the church’s opposition to the death penalty yet gleefully advocate for it, you are in sin.” The statement is stunning, because the Church’s teaching on capital punishment, as with all definitive teachings on faith and morals, is unchanged and unchangeable. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that lawful slaying belongs to civil authorities, who punish the guilty and protect the innocent.
Read →Brigitte Stegman, an 83-year-old Canadian grandmother with stomach cancer, was killed through medical assistance in dying despite previously rejecting the option. Her granddaughter reports that Stegman failed mental capacity questions, expressed distress and regret about the decision, and experienced complications during the procedure involving multiple IV attempts and significant bleeding.
Read →Modern liberalism has expanded the concept of human rights to include actions that Catholic teaching deems morally wrong, such as abortion. Frank Wright contrasts this with the Catholic view of natural rights based on St.
Read →Gloria Steinem, the iconic feminist and abortion-rights activist, worked for the CIA from 1958 to 1962, through the Independent Research Service, largely financed by the agency. She defended the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable.” But the question is unavoidable: How does her later role as a leader of the sexual revolution and abortion-rights movement fit with the agency’s Cold War mission? John-Henry Westen traces Steinem’s personal and political history, her 1957 abortion, her involvement with the radical feminist group Redstockings, and her eventual emergence as a prominent advocate
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