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A Pro-Life Christmas, by Michael Pakaluk – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A Pro-Life Christmas, by Michael Pakaluk

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December 18, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: He Will Save His People from Their Sins

December 18, 2025

The Annunciation by Rogier van der Weyden, 15th century [The Louvre, Paris]

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, December 18, 2025

Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is Professor of Political Economy in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. …

Note: Several readers have recently written to ask what happened to our longtime columnist David Carlin. His son, Joshua, just contacted us to say that he passed away on December 12 (obiturary here). Dave was not only a forceful writer and thinker, as his work here consistently demonstrated. He was that rarest of rare birds: a pro-life Democrat. He kept up his work well into old age, and many of us remember him fondly. Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine. – Robert Royal

Let’s start with the “O Antiphons.” They began yesterday. There are seven of them, and they end on December 23. Then, with Christmas Eve and Christmas, they make nine – a novena – which is a period of expectation, the same in number as the months of pregnancy.

So, the lead up to Christmas is like a leading up to birth.

It’s fine and all to discourse about the O Antiphons, but to hear them in situ, it is necessary to go to Mass for those seven days, or to pray Vespers. If the first, and we receive Holy Communion, we repeatedly express our hope of receiving the Lord by, well, receiving the Lord.

If the second, we join Mary in celebrating the growing child within her, as she does in her Magnificat. ….

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A Pro-Life Christmas, by Michael Pakaluk

What Sort of Bullies Pick On the Little Sisters of the Poor? by Phil Lawler

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: He Will Save His People from Their Sins

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, December 18, 2025

Let’s start with the “O Antiphons.” They began yesterday. There are seven of them, and they end on December 23. Then, with Christmas Eve and Christmas, they make nine – a novena – which is a period of expectation, the same in number as the months of pregnancy.

So, the lead up to Christmas is like a leading up to birth.

It’s fine and all to discourse about the O Antiphons, but to hear them in situ, it is necessary to go to Mass for those seven days, or to pray Vespers. If the first, and we receive Holy Communion, we repeatedly express our hope of receiving the Lord by, well, receiving the Lord.

If the second, we join Mary in celebrating the growing child within her, as she does in her Magnificat. ….

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