Life Issues Forum

By Kimberly Baker
A few days ago, I was in a crowded metro car during early morning rush hour. At one stop a rather ordinary, but nervous young woman boarded. As the train started moving again, she braced herself and then spoke aloud to everyone.

By Mary McClusky

I recently attended events where family members expressed two very different attitudes toward living our Catholic faith in an uncertain age. One family member expressed doom and despair for our culture as we careen toward Election Day results. She feared that attacks on unborn life, marriage, religious liberty, and the dignity of women would grow worse if voters elected the wrong people. The other family member spent time delighting in her grandchildren, thanking my husband and me for our pro-life work, and sharing how she faithfully drove to Mass every morning to pray.

By Caitlin Thomas

By Greg Schleppenbach

In his late 19th century novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells tells a chilling, futuristic story about a doctor on a Pacific island who is performing horrific experiments to craft animals into human beings.