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Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: The Family’s Vital Role in Healing Society – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: The Family’s Vital Role in Healing Society

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International, October 1, 2025

As president of Human Life International, Fr. Boquet is a leading expert on the international pro-life and family movement, having journeyed to nearly 90 countries on pro-life missions over the last decade. Father Boquet works with pro-life and family leaders in 116 counties that partner with HLI to proclaim and advance the Gospel of Life.  Read his full bio here.

“As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.” ― Pope St. John Paul II

As Pope Leo XIV settles into his new role as the Vicar of Christ, we find him repeatedly returning to certain themes. This, in turn, suggests that he views these issues as being especially urgent in the contemporary world.

To my delight, one of these themes to which the Holy Father keeps returning is the central importance of the family as “the cradle of the future of humanity” (as he put it in one recent address).

Pope Leo: The Family is a “Gift and a Task”

Pope Leo’s most recent remarks on the subject were made during an address to a group of participants in a conference discussing the family, and some of the challenges facing it in the modern world. ….

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