Recent Catholic Commentary

When I was younger I loved the Build-A-Bear workshops in the mall. I wanted to design my own ballerina bear. Years later, some precious debate students did it for me as a thank you for being their coach. I still have my ballerina bear and still think the idea is a fun one, if you can afford a designer bear of course. This idea, however, has morphed out of the malls and into the medical clinics of America where now people come to build designer babies. To hear political campaigns across the states and nation tell it, America has a […]

A California woman refused doctors’ advice to abort some of her unborn children after finding herself pregnant with quintuplets – and now has given birth to five healthy babies. From CBS News: A Fullerton mom has successfully given birth to a live set of quintuplets at a Phoenix-area hospital, after refusing the advice of doctors who recommended fetal reduction. Meryl Ferraro, 39, and her husband, John, last week welcomed the arrival of their quintuplets, whom they have collectively nicknamed GRACE, for their first name initials: Gabrielle, Riley (a boy), Addison (a girl), Cooper, and Emerson (a girl). … According to […]

Hello from Richmond, Virginia, where I’ll speaking at a press conference this morning with Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser and abortion survivor Melissa Ohden to announce the release of a new ad exposing Barack Obama’s voting record of supporting infanticide. Here ’tis… SBA List’s Women Speak Out PAC is making a $150,000 ad buy of “The Nurse, The Extremist, The Survivor” in the battleground state of Virginia as part of its $875,000 campaign of several ads in battleground states. Check Obama’s voting record and floor speeches as state senator opposing the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act here.

A 40 Days for Life campaign can be very intense … but we often find there is at least one moment that lets us laugh at ourselves. My moment came last week.