Jeanie Hannaman

November 20, 2024

America’s Pro-Life Movement Readies 2025 Federal- and State-Level Policy Efforts, by Tyler Arnold

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency - Pro-life advocates plan to push federal- and state-level legislative and policy reforms on abortion when the United States Congress and many state legislatures enter into session in January 2025... Many plans look toward regulating the abortion drug mifepristone, which is used in chemical abortions. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion policy group, chemical abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in 2023, which is an increase of 10 percentage points from 2020 and more than double what it was in 2014.

November 20, 2024

Big Business Against the Natural Family, by Nathanael Blake

By Nathanael Blake, Catholic World Report - A new study examining the family policies of Fortune 100 companies reveals an unmistakable trend toward policies that conflict with the principles and precepts articulated by Christians, most clearly by the Catholic Church... Christian social thinkers have urged the development of a humane economy that provides justice for workers and support for families. Unfortunately, big businesses today appear to have little sense of how to achieve this, even when they are trying to be generous to their employees.

November 20, 2024

The Original Sin of Transhumanism: The Desire to Be Like God, by Matija Štahan

By Matija Štahan, Crisis Magazine - With the first successful implementation of Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, Neuralink, at the beginning of the year, perhaps we will one day consider that the era of transhumanism was officially begun in 2024. What is transhumanism, though? It is a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to science. It’s not just an ideology either. Nor is it a philosophy or even (only) a hidden secular religion. Transhumanism is all that and more—it is the spirit that pervades numerous phenomena of our time. As I will try to demonstrate, that spirit is anti-Christian.

November 20, 2024

Woke Ideology Is Not Dead and Buried, by Francis X. Maier

By Francis X. Maier, First Things - I spent the evening after November 5 on YouTube. The site was full of time-compressed videos that tracked news media icons and Hollywood celebrities as election night wore on. The clips were mesmerizing. It was like watching a Carnival Cruise ship gradually sink. Passengers went from champagne to life jackets in just six hours. Jimmy Kimmel, Rachel Maddow, the always unpleasant Joy Reid, and so many others found themselves trapped in a Greek tragedy, with the bill for their jumbo helping of hubris suddenly due.