Marriage & Family
June 30, 2025
By Annette Bergeon, Crisis Magazine - In 1995, on the eve of the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women, Pope St. John Paul II offered a tender, clear-sighted reflection titled Letter to Women. In a time marked by ideological division and cultural anxiety, he stepped into the fray not to argue, but to affirm, to thank, and to dignify. His words cut through slogans and stereotypes to acknowledge the full complexity of womanhood in the modern world. ...
June 28, 2025
By Delano Squires, The Daily Signal - Conservatives in politics and culture are wise to make fatherlessness a focal point of their family policy priorities... Children who grow up with both parents are more likely to attend college and less likely to go to prison. Conversely, father absence is linked to poverty, teen pregnancy, youth crime, worse academic outcomes, and substance abuse... But there is something else that a society loses when millions of children grow up without a present father; namely, the power of the family name.
June 28, 2025
By Jim Daly, The Stream - The Southern Poverty Law Center recently updated its “Hate Map” to include Focus on the Family on its list of hundreds of “hate” organizations alongside racist and white supremacist groups... In particular, the SPLC cites Focus’s online publication, the Daily Citizen, as one of its primary offenders. According to the organization, we “demonize LGBTQ+ people, claiming they are unnatural and un-Christian.” We also “promote anti-trans pseudoscience, such as conversion therapy.”
June 27, 2025
By Mary Frances Devlin, The American Spectator - If anything has dominated Gen Z’s political experience more than the ascendance of President Donald Trump, it’s been the prominence of LGBTQ issues in every aspect of culture over the past decade... In the first instance, public opinion came first. President Trump’s victory in 2016 was a popular referendum on Obama-era progressivism that promised hope and change but delivered government overreach and overregulation. That Trump won the Republican nomination in the first place was a repudiation of the party’s neoconservative leanings. And nearly a decade after his entrance onto the political scene, American voters once again sent Trump back to the White House with an electoral mandate.
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