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PRI Review: Key Alabama Senate Race; Stephen Hawking Wrong; New Humanae Vitae Book
Chris Manion
December 1, 2017
The Alabama Senate Race is a Matter of Life and Death Judge Roy Moore is Unabashedly Pro-Life; Doug Jones Starkly Pro-Abortion. PRI president Steven W. Mosher reports. On December 12th, the voters of Alabama will have a clear choice between a Senate candidate who believes that life begins at conception and one who believes that a baby can be killed up to the moment of birth. Judge Moore has been an unabashed champion for Life …
PRI Review: Steve Mosher on China; Texas Abortion Case: Confronting Islam
Chris Manion
November 15, 2017
PRI president Steve Mosher writes about China’s House of Cards For two thousand years, the Chinese Empire has sought to overawe visiting barbarians with the magnificence of the imperial court. It still does today. As Air Force One lands at the dragon-shaped Beijing International Airport, President Trump will be treated to a skyline that didn’t exist until a few years ago. Most of Beijing’s old residential neighborhoods — called hutung’s — were deliberately destroyed in the frenzied …
PRI Review: Europe At The Crossroads; Japan Demographic Crisis; Saving Magisterial Truth
Chris Manion
October 27, 2017
When Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla of the Czech Republic made a state visit to the United States in 2003, the European Union (EU) was considering a “constitution.” In spite of considerable opposition, the constitution’s supporters succeeded in making sure that the document make no mention of Europe’s Christian roots – in fact, they opposed even the mention of religion. At an informal dinner, I asked Prime Minister Špidla to explain this view, which he supported. …
PRI News Roundup October 18 2017 US Fertility Rate Drops: PRI Defends Life At OAS; Indiana Judge Rules Against Life
Chris Manion
October 19, 2017
U.S. Fertility Rate Hits New Record Low What can be done to reverse this ominous trend? The last year of the Obama administration saw the fertility rate fall to an all-time low. According to recent data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the U.S. fertility rate sank to a record low of 62.0 births per 1,000 women of reproductive age in 2016. This was a slight decrease from the 2015 fertility rate …
PRI Review for September 25, 2017: IPPF Abortions Hit One Million Mark; India’s Two-Child Policy Advances; Last Chance to Repeal Obamacare
Chris Manion
October 9, 2017
International Planned Parenthood Federation Performs Over One Million Abortions in 2016, Report Shows One of the world’s most extensive and prolific abortion networks has passed a tragic milestone. In 2016, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), for the first time reported in its history, aborted more than one million unborn baby boys and girls in a single year. The final death toll for 2016: 1,094,679 children lost through surgical or chemical abortion[1]—roughly the equivalent of …
PRI Review For June 12, 2017 Vice-President Pence Assures Catholics That Trump is their “Ally”; Will Humanae Vitae Have A Happy Birthday Next Month? Weekly Briefing Reports on Spread Of Chinese Population Policies Into Africa
Chris Manion
June 12, 2017
Prospects for pro-life victories have increased markedly in recent weeks, as President Trump continues to fulfill the promises he made during the 2016 election campaign. Vice-President Mike Pence recounted the good news when he addressed those gathered for the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast last week. Pence focused on President Trump’s radical reversal of the anti-life policies that had made Barack Obama the most vocal and pro-abortion national leader in the world. “President Donald Trump stands …
PRI Review For May 30, 2017 PRI Chaplain Linus Clovis Warns of Divisions Within Church Honduran Pro-Lifers Win Important Battle; College Tyrants Continue to Harass Conservatives
Chris Manion
June 1, 2017
As the 49th anniversary of Humanae Vitae approaches, there are signs on the horizon, not of celebration but of danger. Marco Tosatti, a respected journalist in Rome, recently wrote that “in the Vatican, unconfirmed reports from good sources have leaked that the Pontiff is on the verge of appointing – or even might have already formed – a secret commission to examine and potentially study changes to the Church’s position on the issue of contraception, …
PRI Review for May 19, 2017. Notre Dame Invites VP Pence, Still Suffering From Obama; Cardinal Müller’s New Book Shines; Tillerson Announces Expansion of Mexico City Policy
Chris Manion
May 19, 2017
Professor Walter Williams recently observed that today’s academic climate might be described as a mixture of infantilism, kindergarten and totalitarianism. As a graduate of Notre Dame, I’m sorry to report that the infection has spread even to my alma mater. Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Notre Dame’s commencement this Sunday, May 21st, but apparently the prospect of his visit makes many students feel “unsafe” – so supporters of “gay rights” and their allies …
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