Natural family planning rebuts the basic assumptions of the sexual revolution and the idea that sex is primarily a recreational activity, “safe” between any two people with the proper pills.
After Dobbs, the pro-life movement must take the lead in supporting foster and adoptive parents—and in letting birth mothers know there is no stigma in giving a child a new chance at life.
Church teachings on life beginning at conception and human dignity overall require us to have a more sensitive approach to miscarriages and other forms of pregnancy loss.
Pope Francis joined Giorgia Meloni in encouraging young Italians to have more children, saying, “Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism.”
My relationship with Mary is complicated. I couldn't see the appeal of Marian devotion until I had a baby and understood how she embodies the life-giving sacrifice of motherhood.