When Children Die, Where Is God?
By Nancy Valko, RN, ALNC
On October 18, 2012, we lost our 6-year-old grandson Noah after a long and often brutal battle with a rare autoimmune disease called familial HLH (Hemophago-cytic lymphohistiocytosis).
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Planned Parenthood Is the Sex Mafia
By Michael Hichborn
In June of this year, Pope Francis delivered a powerful message to members of a notorious crime syndicate in Calabria, Italy. The ‘Ndrangheta is believed to be wealthier and more powerful than the Sicilian mafia.
In California Access to Top Docs and Hospitals Dwindles under Obamacare
By Jennifer Popik
Californians with health insurance obtained through the Obamacare exchange are continuing to find themselves being turned away when they seek out many top health care specialists and hospitals, according to the latest report in an ongoing investigation by the Los Angeles Times.
A Ray of Light through the Clouds
By Michael Cook
I’m finding it hard to watch the news lately, dominated as it is by the atrocities of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Standing against the Human ‘Dignity Deniers’
By Wesley J. Smith
God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly is.
Planned Parenthood’s Twisted View on the Rearing of Children
By Michael Hichborn
As the October Synod on the Family rapidly approaches, American Life League continues to sound the rallying cry that any discussion on modern challenges facing the family should include Planned Parenthood.
That’s Messed Up: The Recipe for This Election Cycle’s Birth Control Soup-Sandwich That Set Planned Parenthood Backtracking
By Rita Diller
What happens when you take copious amounts of hormonal carcinogens, steep in utter disregard for humanity, sprinkle with false compassion, stir all in a thinly veiled broth of vote grappling, and spike with pieces of women’s broken health, families torn asunder, and children dead and forgotten? You get something more messed up than the proverbial soup-sandwich.
Defenders of the Family Must Unite
By Rey Flores
Many of us have heard the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Latin Lessons: What a Great Roman Historian Can Teach Us about IVF and Egg Freezing
By Michael Cook
My Latin is not what it once was and it was never much.
Driving to Nebraska: Cinema, Human Dignity, and the Elderly
By Daniel Ross Goodman
Is it possible for a film that was nominated for six Oscars, was directed by one of Hollywood’s most highly regarded filmmakers, and features a career-best performance by one of the best actors of his generation to be overlooked? In the case of Nebraska (2013), the answer is yes.
Planned Parenthood: An Enemy of the Family
By Rob Gasper
Instrumentum Laboris, the Vatican’s working document for the upcoming Extraordinary Synod on the Family, identifies the leading challenges facing the modern family.
Is Marriage a Form of Prostitution?
By Angela Shanahan
When I heard that an Australian social commentator called Jane Caro had compared “traditional” marriage to prostitution on the popular TV program Q&A, I thought, “Oh, here we go again!” That trope of feminist literature is almost as raddled as the raddled old feminists themselves. After pushing the marriage-as-slavery ideology for the last 40 years, can’t people like Caro come up with something more original?