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A Good Reason for Large Families

Gene M. Van Son February 11, AD2025 8 Comments

One negative aspect of feminism that seems to only get lip service today is the decline in birth rates.  Today, large families are not the

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motherhood, abortion, bodily autonomy

Stop Apologizing for Being Pregnant

Julie Machado September 26, AD2020 20 Comments

It has taken me five pregnancy announcements (I am currently pregnant with my fifth child) to stop apologizing about it. Before, I would quiver when

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Book Review of “Mountains and a Mustard Seed: A Family’s Journey of Hope”

Rob Marco January 2, AD2019 3 Comments

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

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family, honor, father

The Truth of What It Is to Be Human

Sofia Abasolo October 21, AD2018 3 Comments

Speaking at a Gates Foundation event in New York, French President Emanuel Macron recently said that the reason some African women have large families is

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life, miracle, wanted

Children, Global Warming, and Signs of Contradiction

Anthony S. Layne January 24, AD2018 29 Comments

We Americans are having a bad effect on Canada. Just the other day (January 13), Kristen Pyszczyk of CBC suggested quite nicely that perhaps it

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Faith + Humour = 36 Years of Marriage

Melanie Jean Juneau November 17, AD2015 10 Comments

My husband, Michael, and I have been married for 36 years, and we are happy and still in love. Surprisingly, we have become one in reality,

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Humanae Vitae and Family Size—Should We Have a Big Family?

Kevin Aldrich June 2, AD2014 42 Comments

This is the final column in a six-part series on Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s profound and heroic 1968 encyclical. The series’ introduction is here.

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