Abortion

Sex Is Not All

By Justin Katz | April 7, 2009 |

It’s a tragicomic truism that members of the cultural movement, with roots in the “Sexual Revolution,” that presses for the acceptance of ever more licentious behavior, that peppers popular culture with lewd images and innuendo, and that leverages carnal lust as an enticement toward the trap of its radical worldview often accuse those who stand…

Soft Appeasement in the Service of Evil

By Justin Katz | March 31, 2009 |

As with the strained morality of modernism, what galls about rationalizations for the invitation of President Obama to be commencement speaker for and to receive an honorary degree from the Catholic Notre Dame University is the dishonesty of the rationalizations: The Obama invitation, [Notre Dame President Rev. John] Jenkins emphasized, does not condone or endorse…

Darkness Creeps In

By Justin Katz | March 25, 2009 |

This is an abomination and a blood-red stain on our entire society: The pregnant woman showed up at the medical center in flip-flops and in tears, after walking there to save bus fare. Her boyfriend had lost his job, she told her doctor in Oakland, Calif., and now — fearing harder times for her family…

Exporting the Culture of Death

By Justin Katz | February 16, 2009 |

For his latest column, Bishop Tobin imagined the interview he would conduct with President Obama: TOBIN: But the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions is very controversial. It’s a divisive policy. It violates the conscience of millions of Americans who respect life and oppose abortion. Isn’t that completely contrary to your goal of…

What’s the Big Deal?

By Justin Katz | February 6, 2009 |

I hate to be plain spoken on an issue regarding which Americans prefer obscurity, but folks, this is abortion: Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy. Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to…

Life’s Potential

By Marc Comtois | January 23, 2009 |

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When Sin Trumps Conscience

By Justin Katz | January 18, 2009 |

Rhode Island is one of seven states that would prefer that citizens with moral reservations about procreation-related procedures and drugs have fewer rights: Seven states sued the federal government Thursday over a new rule that expands protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions and other medical procedures because…

Candidate of Death

By Justin Katz | October 31, 2008 |

Just in case you’re pro-life and have somehow talked yourself into believing that Obama will be tolerable as president: When Barack Obama admitted to Joe the Plumber that he planned on spreading the wealth around, he didn’t mention that the tax dollars he will take from you will be used to pay for elective abortions…

A beautiful picture and reflections

By Donald B. Hawthorne | October 24, 2008 |

Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York.

On Murder and Politics

By Justin Katz | October 20, 2008 |

I’m probably not alone in having allowed my mouse to hover over links to Denver Archbishop Chaput’s speech on civic participation in accord with the Roman Catholic Church. It’s worth a click and a read, though: As adults, each of us needs to form a strong Catholic conscience. Then we need to follow that conscience…