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Saving Babies and Time Off in Purgatory

As I write, Washington lies under light snow and, with wind chill, is 90 F. In most of the country, not too bad for January. In Washington – between the incompetence of government and a population that...

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The Irish Referendum

Well, the Republic of Ireland is gone.  Gone to the dark side.  It has repudiated the Catholic religion.  It did this on Friday May 25, 2018, when the citizens of Ireland, the great majority of whom...

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Death and Life in Argentina’s Purple Land

“I will call my book The Purple Land. For what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children?” — William Henry Hudson In the wee hours of August 9, 2018, the...

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Moms at Mass, and Other Heroes

Like other professional men, if I want to attend weekday Mass, I have a choice between an early Mass in my parish and a mid-day Mass near my work.  I love seeing colleagues at the later Mass, and the...

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Neither the Seamless Garment, Nor Merely Anti-Abortion

I want to apologize in advance for not writing about the Covington Catholic social media mugging.  It’s not that I don’t think there was a terrible injustice perpetrated against what appears to have...

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Wetwork: a Review of “Unplanned”

My anti-abortion views solidified in 1976 when I bought a copy of Esquire magazine. There was something in it by or about George Plimpton that I wanted to read, but thumbing through the pages I came to...

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Pro-Abortion Snobbery

This column is about abortion, but it will take a moment or two to get to the point.  Please bear with me. If ever there was an obvious example of fallacious reasoning, it’s this: “I am rich, and you...

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Argentina’s Anti-Abortion Wave

Over the weekend, the eclectic political coalition currently in power in Argentina suffered a massive defeat to a resurgent progressive wing of the Peronist party. If the Peronists win the final round...

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After the Force Majeure

In the 2014 Swedish film, Force Majeure, a violent avalanche just about reaches and almost engulfs a family enjoying lunch on the deck of a ski resort in the French Alps.  The film’s director, Ruben...

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Roe v. Wade v. Eternity

It is good news, that after half a century America is returning to the rule of law, and that extravagant legal fictions – in the name of privacy – are now being exposed as such by a majority of the...

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