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John Ryan is among the great heroes of the pro-life movement, and has been like a brother to me for decades. We disagree about many things,...

Hospitality in the Desert The stories and insights in this chapter are taken from The Wisdom of the Desert, by Thomas Merton (New York,...

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and mil...

It seems that I can hear a voice saying to America: “You started out right. You wrote in your Declaration of Independence that ‘all...

I had an unpleasant encounter yesterday. A group of pro-lifers were engaged in a debate about how pro-lifers should respond to Trump’s raci...

The second excuse: The story of Sodom is blurred, and the hospitality triptych is lost to us. Here’s the second of the ten excuses fo...

Here’s the first of ten excuses for inhospitality. (List of ten at bottom, in rough chronological order.) What’s a GER? The Hebrew ...