In whatever I might know about life, there are two truths that have helped me to deal with suffering. They have many times given me
Thousands of young adults owe their very existence to ordinary nurses and doctors in a public hospital maternity wing. Years ago, everyone in the neonatal
Yes, he did it. In a majority legal opinion issued in May, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas put a stick in the middle of
I am not a dad but in God’s stellar sight, I am. My wife Shirley and I had four miscarriages in the early 1980s. We
As states continue working to pass laws safeguarding women’s reproductive rights through abortion, others are striving to protect life in its earliest stages. An epic
Actress Alyssa Milano ignited social media with a tweet last Friday night calling for women to return to chastity. Although her nonsectarian phrase is “sex-strike,”
My husband and I are expecting a fourth child and when that dreaded time of telling everyone came around I realized it never gets
Fundamental to the postmodern, post-Christian culture in which we live is the rejection of an objective human nature. Instead of believing human nature is what
I would now like to speak directly to every woman, to reflect with her on the problems and the prospects of what it means to
What is a happy death? Exactly four years ago, on April 8, 2015, my father, Donald Leroy Evans, journeyed into eternity. I wrote elsewhere about
It would be understandable if Catholics and the public at large believed that the death penalty’s existence depended solely on its effectiveness in protecting society
Human experimentation is being widely conducted today both in the narrow, scientific sense, such as in the CRISPR gene editing program, and in the broader,
Upon first recognizing the allusions to the Book of Genesis in Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina, one might be inclined to roll one’s eyes. The
During my spring break, a friend and I were talking about homosexuality. It has been on our minds so much since the scandal in the
We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Human life is
“Daddy, what’s an abortion?” my seven year old son asked me one day. “An abortion is when a mother kills the child she is carrying
Mountains and a Mustard Seed is what I would call a “legacy book,” a kind of capstone on an amazing family journey guided by the
With the March for Life on the 18th and the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on the 22nd, January is often lived as a
Richard Morgan’s novel Altered Carbon might have been more interesting if it had known what to do with its Catholic characters. It takes place in
As a nation, we learn many lessons from history. We learn from our wars, from our epidemics, and from our economic failures and successes. And
Is your love conditional or unconditional? Do you love one child more than the other, based on some perceived value? Who determines the right
With Election Day looming (November 6th), we once again need to ask: Is there a Catholic way to vote? In order to be good Catholics,
Sex makes babies. Life begins at conception. People are born male or female. Marriage is for life. Divorce is not something to be celebrated. Homosexual
The mystery of God’s maternal love is expressed with particular power in the Hebrew word, rahamim. Etymologically, this word means “womb” but was later used to mean
