As pro-lifers from across America gather for this year’s 35th Annual March for Life, we are proud to be part of a visible force in the public debate that has surrounded the abortion issue. Over the years, the movement has weathered many a storm and today is ready, relevant and resilient as … Read more
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Preferential option for the nobility. At first glance this expression may startle readers familiar with the more common phrase often used by Pope John Paul II: “preferential option for the poor.” Nevertheless, what inspires this book is precisely a preferential option for the nobility. The objection may be raised that, ex natura … Read more
March for Life 2006 A cold penetrating rain poured down on the night before the March for Life. No doubt many anti-abortion Americans looked at the bleak weather forecast and wondered what the next day’s march would bring. Some might have even hesitated. It is in dreary times not sunshine when the … Read more
Since 1990, a crowd has gathered every year in mid-November to protest against the activities of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly called the School of the Americas) and demand its closure. Protests that Target Public Opinion At first glance, this might appear a simple protest of minor importance. However, … Read more
In a March 12 interview with the Chicago Tribune, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made this statement: “I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy … Read more
Since the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, the unthinkable has happened for the pro-abortion movement. What should have been a simple matter riding on the coattails of the Sexual Revolution of the sixties has become a moral and political quagmire. Pro-abortion advocates have lost their vision with no exit strategy in sight. … Read more
In 2003 the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property—TFP helped to voice the Catholic outcry across the nation against legislative bills in several states that would oblige a priest to break the Seal of Confession. Many Catholic cardinals, bishops and priests affirmed they would go to jail rather … Read more
Year after year since the tragic Roe v. Wade decision, we come here to protest abortion on the streets of the nation’s capital. Year after year, the devastation caused by abortion becomes more patent, while its harmful consequences accumulate. Abortion and the “Culture of Death” Because of abortion, our country must seek … Read more
A New Religious Persecution? Is It Fair That the Innocent Pay for the Guilty? An Additional 70 Million Victims of the Sexual Abuse Scandals on the Horizon State legislatures across the nation are now being pressured to lift or extend retroactively their civil statutes of limitations related to sexual abuse. … Read more
A Filial Supplication to the Unknown Pope As the funeral of His Holiness John Paul II comes to a close, the Catholic world, after manifestations of mourning and sorrow, now enters a period of reflection, prayer and hope, looking forward to the conclave. The large crowds that spontaneously flocked to the Eternal … Read more