Weekly Briefing

The National Catholic Register recently published an editorial, “Separate the Wheat From the Chaff in US Foreign Aid,” attempting to balance support for President Donald Trump’s cuts to “rank ideological colonialism” while promoting USAID’s “humanitarian” work, particularly through Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Unfortunately, the article

The closure of a corrupt government agency is always cause for celebration. Not that it happens very often. As President Reagan once remarked, “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” In the case of the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International

The days of Chinese and Peruvian women being directly coerced into forced abortions and sterilizations is over. These brutal practices still exist, but only in the most heavy-handed dictatorships. Even there they are mostly found in remote regions among persecuted minorities, such as among the Uyghurs in

For decades, the Depo-Provera contraceptive injection has been questioned for many reasons. For example, its connection to a much higher rate of STDs. But recently, evidence has surfaced about an even more serious adverse event: brain tumors. Depo-Provera is the brand name for the drug

For years PRI has urged the United States to get out of the business of aborting, sterilizing and contracepting the world. Population control began a half century ago in the dark fear of exploding human numbers. Most people now realize that this was an imaginary crisis,

On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order cutting off U.S. funding to the international abortion cartel. Called the Mexico City Policy, the policy ensures “that no U.S. taxpayer money supports foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortion in other nations.” The Mexico City Policy was first

Twenty-nine years ago, I published an article in Culture Wars (July-August 1996), “Contracepting Social Security,” which pointed out that falling birth rates would eventually doom the program.  In the years since, public awareness of the actuarial unsoundness of the Social Security promises in the U.S.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has just rejected the pro-abortion lobby’s attempt to establish a “right to abortion” throughout Latin America.  This ruling creates a legal precedent that will help PRI and other pro-life groups to defend innocent unborn life from conception in the

For years, it felt like PRI was the only organization warning about the coming demographic collapse. Our founder, Fr. Paul Marx, saw this crisis coming decades in advance: “Today, most people have been brainwashed to think our worst problem is over-population. In many parts of

Jimmy Lai could have fled Hong Kong when the Communists came in 1997. Hundreds of thousands of his fellow Hong Kongers did, making for the friendlier shores of Canada, Australia, and the United States. But the billionaire entrepreneur, publisher of the former British colony’s leading newspaper,