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May 13, 2013 (thePublicDiscourse) - I see a boy.

Luke is ten years old. He sports a cowlick across his forehead, and a bright smile.

Despite the birth of a child a thousand miles away with vestigial organs of the opposite sex, and despite…

May 13, 2013 (Breakpoint.org) - Do you remember the great movie “Amazing Grace,” about William Wilberforce, the Christian Parliamentarian who led the charge to abolish the British slave trade?

One scene sticks in my mind right now, especially…

Note: This is part 8 in a series detailing known cases where babies have been born alive after failed abortions, and then been killed or left to die. To see the other parts of the series, click here.

May 13, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - Abortion…

**satire**

Dear Dr. Carhart,

I saw you on Live Action’s undercover video “Inhuman,” and I had to stop and write this.

Dr. Carhart, you are so brave.

You look women in the eye and tell them the truth: that by paying you to kill and…

Pope Francis has written to the Argentine Assembly of Bishops expressing the desire that they use the Aparecida document as their frame of reference for the government of the Church. As John-Henry Weston, editor-in-chief of LifeSite, puts it: "the…

In this era of motherhood by choice, we confront an oddity that I could never have imagined would occur in my lifetime. It becomes much more evident at this special time of year when we honor our mothers and express our sincere appreciation for…

May 10, 2013 (HLIWorldWatch.org) - May victims of rape be administered a “Plan B” (levonorgestrel-only) contraceptive?

Catholic bishops, ethicists, and researchers have given a variety of answers to this question. Some forbid its use entirely,…

May 10, 2013 (HLIWorldWatch.org) - Polls show that most young people today, even those who identify themselves as Christians, have no problem with “same-sex marriage.”

If young people today are at all aware of what the Catholic Church teaches…

May 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Irish government has produced an Abortion Bill that is cruel, archaic and utterly unacceptable.

It proposes to legalise the direct and intentional killing of unborn children in Ireland for the first time.…

May 9, 2013 (AlbertMohler.com) - Looking for evidence that our society is losing its mind? Just look at the controversy over so-called “emergency contraceptives” and a federal judge’s effort to make these drugs available, over the counter, to…

May 9, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - The facts are still being sorted out in the case of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight, the three women who escaped from their kidnappers in Cleveland this week, with the help of natural-born…

May 8, 2013 (PriestsforLife) - Of the many lessons to be learned from the Kermit Gosnell trial, which I have watched in the courtroom, one is that abortion not only destroys babies and their mothers; it destroys the doctors who perform them. 

May 8, 2013 (FRC) - Parents are meant to be the fundamental guiding influence of a child’s life. They are responsible for nurturing, educating, protecting, and providing for their children. This system, established at creation by God, is the…

May 8, 2013 (Breakpoint.org) - Unless you’ve been completely unplugged recently, you likely saw the flood of news stories concerning Jason Collins, the NBA player who recently announced his homosexuality. Collins was called “brave” and…