Kathryn Lopez
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Don't Put Support for Life on Life Support
"To the men of America: This cause is your fight, too. It's not a women's issue. It is a human issue." Sen. Richard Blumenthal was talking about abortion. He was not speaking against it -- he's about as far as you can get from pro-life. He's the lead sponsor of the so-called Women's Health Protection Act, which seeks to ensure that legal abortion remains an option nationwide. And yet, his… → Read More
There's Gold in Them That Hillbillies
It didn't surprise me when, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Father Thomas Joseph White began telling me that while he enjoyed touring with his band the Hillbilly Thomists, which consists of musical friars, he enjoys writing more. When not playing banjo in Nashville, White is the rector of the Angelicum in Rome; the school's most famous alumnus is Pope John Paul II. His latest book is an… → Read More
A Real Example at Christmas
Getting to know people who are persecuted for their religious faith is life-changing. To meet people whose everyday life involves the real possibility that they might be kidnapped, tortured or killed simply because they are Christian, Yazidi or Uyghur Muslim gives you a whole new perspective. We don't often come to know any of these people -- they seem a world away. Maybe we make an occasional… → Read More
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
Conversations and investments in relationships can go a long way. Our polarized and social media culture fights against these incredibly human things, but we can fight back. I was recently in the Dallas area, meeting a friend for lunch. On the way back, somehow, I wound up talking about some of the most controversial topics with my Uber driver. Abortion came up early and often. So did religion.… → Read More
A Different Path
"I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far." That was Sen. Joe Biden's immediate reaction to Roe v. Wade in 1974. My, how the times have changed. In many ways, Biden reflects the culture. Back in the day, Biden said that his opposition to Roe made him "about as liberal as your grandmother." Well, now our grandfather president is as radical as they get on… → Read More
A Difficult, Inspirational Choice
"I'll sue you if you don't provide her medical care." That was Lidia's response to the reckless doctor who botched her abortion at 26 weeks. "Her" here refers to Lidia's newborn daughter, the one the doctor was supposed to abort. "Your daughter will be a mental vegetable incapable of having a normal life. You should leave her to die on the table," he said. Lidia was an immigrant living in… → Read More
Reagan's Example
Simi Valley, California -- "I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and → Read More
Long Live the Queen!
"Many religions have festivals which celebrate light overcoming darkness ... They seem to speak to every culture, and appeal to people of all faiths, and of none."That was the beginning → Read More
Hope in Ukraine
NASHVILLE -- "We don't have refugee camps in Poland," Szymon Czyszek explains. Instead, Poles have welcomed Ukrainians into their private homes, despite often speaking different languages. Czyszek is in the → Read More
Sisters, Sisters
"You are irreplaceable." That's the first thing you will see when you go to the website of the Sisters of Life, sistersoflife.org. If you know the Sisters of Life, you → Read More
The Choice Ahead
"The real question today is not when human life begins, but what is the value of human life?"President Ronald Reagan asserted this on the 10th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, → Read More
Post-Roe America Begins Now
"Nights of Rage" are how some pro-abortion activists described their plans for the days following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. By the time you read this, I → Read More
What Do We Prefer?
Do we prefer abortion? That's the question we should be asking right now as Americans.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recoils when asked about her position on abortion. If the → Read More
Look Beyond The Rancor
I've heard things in recent days about the pro-life movement that are not true. I've read how we're against abortion because we want more white babies for white couples to → Read More
The Shifting Language of Abortion
For about a half-second after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion in the case that may throw out Roe v. Wade, people who support Roe dropped the talking → Read More
A Loss for Women, and an Example
A great woman died suddenly just after Easter Sunday. Vicki Thorn was the founder of Project Rachel, a post-abortion healing ministry."She was a voice for us when we were not → Read More
The Example of Easter
At this year's Chrism Mass -- in which holy oils are blessed and the priesthood is celebrated -- at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan chose not → Read More
The Responsibilities of Freedom
Russia's attack on Ukraine seems to be something of a Rorschach Test for Americans who have the luxury of freely voicing opinions. A Republican candidate for the United States Senate → Read More
The Realities of Life and the Lies of Abortion
A baby was born on Feb. 2 because, when a scared late teenager walked in for an appointment at an abortion clinic months earlier, someone explained to her what would → Read More
Jimmy Lai: a Beacon of Courage Amid Communist Oppression
"Taped on the wall by my desk," wrote Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn in the summer of 2020, "is a photo of Jimmy Lai in handcuffs. It was taken → Read More