Part of a continuing series examining the U.S. Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a direct challenge to the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion throughout the United States. After nearly a half century of legal abortion throughout the United States,
Waukesha is so little-known that even some American commentators struggled to pronounce the town’s name this week. I noticed the error because I lived in this part of Milwaukee for six months. My wife grew up in Waukesha County (you can hear the pronunciation at this
To begin to understand the late Servant of God Dorothy Day, it helps to know a bit of dialogue from her favorite work of literature, The Brothers Karamazov. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s great Christian novel, a woman asks how she can know God is real. The answer
I took my first drink on a late evening in May, 2002. I was 17 years old. “Don’t think so much about how it’s going to taste, but think about how good it will make you feel,” was the instruction I was given while walking along a
Phil Saviano, a clergy sex abuse survivor and whistleblower who played a pivotal role in exposing decades of predatory assaults by Roman Catholic priests in the United States, has died. He was 69. Saviano’s story figured prominently in the 2015 Oscar-winning film “Spotlight” about The Boston
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal appeared in 1830 at a time of civil unrest and an approaching pandemic. That summer, Paris was greatly suffering. The French Revolution had brought on much misery. People were suffering. France was suffering. The Church was suffering. There was
This year Christmas – sorry, make that the holidays – began in early October. That’s when I saw my first pre-Black Friday ad. Yes, it seemed a little premature. But it’s never too early to buy stuff. And in a troubled economy, indulging our appetites
Many Catholics recognize St. Maria Goretti as a 20th-century virgin martyr. The young girl was murdered in 1902, at age 11, by her 20-year old neighbor when she refused his advances and attempt to rape her. She died a day later, after having forgiven her
French geneticist and pro-life champion Jérôme Lejeune (1926-1994), who discovered the extra chromosome that causes Down Syndrome, is at the heart of a biography recently published by Ignatius Press. Jérôme Lejeune, A Man of Science and Conscience is the fruit of 11 years of in-depth research works
Last Dec. 16, we marked the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ disembarking in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and this year we celebrate the quatercentenary of the first Thanksgiving feast. It was a brutal first year. Of the 103 pilgrims who had arrived, 52 would die before the
