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Pregnant Women in the Spotlight

The New York Times had a bizarre piece this week, "The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image," on pregnancies in the Trump...

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Dr. Biden and Summer Reading

I’ve been considering reading Jill Biden’s book and even have a copy. I think Vahaken, our literary editor, just moved it to a different pile in...

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Grim Report: Euthanasia of a Child in the Netherlands

Forget looking down a slippery slope. Legally, a doctor has ended the life of a child in the Netherlands. We don’t know the exact age, but we do...

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Post-Dobbs Medical Malpractice in Texas

Today marks four years since the Dobbs decision. May I make a simple request? Can we please stop killing children and hurting women? The left has been...

24.06.2026 3

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Representative Kat Cammack and Her Baby: (Social) Media Cruelty Toward a Mourning Mother

Florida pro-life House member Kat — Kathryn, spelled correctly 😊 -- Cammack is getting lousy and really outright cruel treatment online. And, as...

23.06.2026 4

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Why Is England Suicidal?

There is some other news going on in England today, but don’t let an op-ed in today’s London Times on assisted suicide get lost in the...

22.06.2026 9

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Abortion Pills Help Men Behave Gravely

Last week’s Lifeline newsletter was titled “Abortion Pills Are Gifts to Abusers.” A recent conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Skop — about the...

18.06.2026 9

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Refunding Planned Parenthood in America?

I found an email with a statement from Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director in Texas. You’ve likely heard her name before....

18.06.2026 10

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Women Rule: A Casual History of Women and the Catholic Church with Bronwen McShea

The news of Montse Alvarado going from EWTN to the Vatican to run the dicastery for communications is an exciting opportunity — for the Holy Spirit!...

09.06.2026 10

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No Room for Helping Kids Stay Out of Foster Care in the Big Apple Socialist Inn?

The Zohran Mamdami administration in New York City is eyeing the elimination of foster-care prevention programs. Because the best kind of love comes...

08.06.2026 10

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Trump? Not Pro-Life? Surely You Jest!

A few days ago, National Review alumna Audrey Fahlberg had a piece in The Free Press talking about a possible pro-life revolt against Donald...

08.06.2026 10

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Marvelous Montse!: A Chicagoan Pope Names a Mexican-Born Daughter of the Church to Lead Communications at the Vatican

Everything you ever needed to know about Pope Leo — but were either afraid to or didn’t even think to begin to ask — we learned today. He...

02.06.2026 10

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The Wild West of the Online Abortion Pill Business

Here’s a new conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB-GYN associated with the Charlotte Lozier Institute. She talks about their new report on...

29.05.2026 10

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God and Man on Artificial Intelligence

I would love to read a Bill Buckley column about Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical. Alas, I went for the next best thing. I...

26.05.2026 10

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A Few Things About Magnifica Humanitas That Caught My Eye

Don’t worry, I’m not bringing back the old “Caught My Eye” feature. You have to listen to The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM for that. Just...

25.05.2026 10

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Leo Leads on Artificial Intelligence: Wisdom, Challenge, Women & Other Takeaways from Magnifica Humanitas

Artificial intelligence cannot and will not do better than St. Francis of Assisi. This was unsurprisingly confirmed at a Vatican press conference this...

25.05.2026 10

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Abortion Pills Kill. Do We Care?

I’m not sure that enough Americans realize what we are doing with these abortion pills. We can’t even seem to pay enough attention to the fact...

21.05.2026 20

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The Deaths Never Stop

A number of years ago, a friend was dying. She had been cryptic about the cancer diagnosis. It’s hard to know what to do. I wasn’t mad; she...

21.05.2026 20

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Living Dying with Barney Frank

I saw recently that Barney Frank, the former Democrat representative who died yesterday, had entered hospice care.   There seemed something so...

21.05.2026 10

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Martin Short, Drawn to God’s Light?

Pray for Martin Short. There’s a new documentary on the comedian on Netflix, so he’s doing interviews. This caught my eye in the New York Times:...

21.05.2026 20

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Learning from a Great Man: Bob Woodson, R.I.P.

Bob Woodson has died.  Those words don’t seem right. He was truly a man who I thought might never die. I remember first encountering him when I was...

21.05.2026 10

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A New National Push for Innovation — and Objectivity — for Children in Foster Care

It’s rare to hear a hopeful sense of urgency from a government official about foster care. And yet that’s what seems to be bursting out of my...

14.05.2026 20

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Good Friday: A Good Day for Good Supernatural Sense

For quite a while now, I've tended to reread parts of Father Richard John Neuhaus’s Death on a Friday Afternoon on Good Friday. I usually post...

03.04.2026 20

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The Gaze That Changes Everything

Saint John Henry Newman was named a doctor of the church late last year — the first from the English-speaking world, by the first pope from the...

03.04.2026 20

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Remembering a Media Trailblazer: Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation

“If you’re breathing and you’ve got two legs, you’re called to holiness.” Such was the evangelization style of the bold and beautiful Mother...

27.03.2026 20

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I Look Awesome for 250: Can You Do Me Favor for Life?

Sunday is my 50th birthday. I tell you that because I’m grateful for the gift of life. I may not always be the best steward of it, but I pray that...

20.03.2026 20

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Jimmy Lai’s Magnificent Freedom & Our Moral Imperative

They say that God raises up saints when we need them. I think it’s more than safe to say that we are living in the world with at least one obvious...

26.02.2026 20

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When Trump Mentioned IVF at the State of the Union, He Said More than He Intended

Once again, for anyone in the back who couldn't hear: The Republican Party is not pro-life. It was notable -- maybe even once again instructive...

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Vance Apologized; Socialism Is ‘the Opposite of What America Is’; Abortion Begets Assisted Suicide — Thank You, Catholic Politicians

JD Vance last year accused the U.S. Catholic bishops of only caring about immigrants for the money in it. Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, the recently...

24.02.2026 30

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In-Depth with the March for Life

28.01.2026 20

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Pope Leo’s Message to the March for Life

24.01.2026 30

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Trump, Reagan, and Abortion

18.01.2026 20

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Why I Might Skip JD Vance at the March for Life Rally

18.01.2026 20

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Scott Adams and the Gift of Life

18.01.2026 20

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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Is Dying

09.01.2026 40

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Quiet, Now, and Pray for the Man Behind Dilbert

07.01.2026 50

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Norman Podhoretz, How I Loved You!

18.12.2025 20

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New York’s Death Wish: Abandoning the Most Vulnerable to Assisted Suicide

18.12.2025 20

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We’re Killing Ourselves — and the Most Vulnerable

17.12.2025 20

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Free Jimmy Lai

17.12.2025 20

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The Land of Lincoln, and Home State of the Pope, Opts for Suicide

13.12.2025 30

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God Doesn’t Waste Humiliation and Suffering

13.12.2025 30

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Pope Leo on Human Life and Death

12.12.2025 30

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On the Brink of Suicide: New York and Illinois

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Jimmy Lai Must Be Freed

12.12.2025 40

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Delighting in Certain Violence: Guarding Our Souls in the 2025 USA

07.12.2025 30

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The Man Who Charmed the Women on The View, & Singing for the Poor in Rome

07.12.2025 30

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Do You Read The Lifeline?

06.12.2025 20

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Memo to Blue State Attorneys General and Activist Judges: Let Women Have the Choice to Be Helped

06.12.2025 30

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Swiss Suicide-Clinic Founder Kills Himself; U-M Medical School Celebrates Kevorkian

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