Anyone else thinking of getting off social media (Iโm looking at you Instagram)??! The more I think about it, the more I donโt love how it makes me feel, among other things. Writing here has been a breath of fresh air and Iโd love to pour all my energy into this space. What has it been like for those whoโve taken the plunge and said goodbye to the gram? Especially if you have a Substack page.
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What do IVF and euthanasia have in common? The involve life and deathโand big potential profits. Hear about it on this weekโs Home Front podcast.
And thereโs more, as always: The demographic crisis of American Catholicism, and the problemโ THE problemโ the Church must confront.
The Home Front
Euthanasia and IVF share death-dealing control issues; why embryo "adoption" is not a good idea; the shocking truth about bishops, money, and Church demographics -- and more!
My dad called me this afternoon to tell me that the field between our houses was covered with robins, that it wasnโt just one robin that arrived as a sign of spring but a whole field full.
What he didnโt say was that birds were my momโs thing. She would have been the one to notice. He did in her stead and made sure to bring them to my notice, too.
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I read Romy Hollandโs โWhat Nobody Told Me About Abortionโ this morning and couldnโt help but respond. The pro-life movement continues to behave as though societyโs acceptance of abortion is a crisis of science. Iโve said it for years: this is not a crisis of science. This is a crisis of faith. And Romyโs abortion account - specifically,โฆ
That one about finding myself after a shopping freeze, why I freeze when Alex gets sick, how to become radiantly beautiful without spending a dime, and the kids' favorite halibut chowder.
I sent this to my sister with a new baby. Itโs so valuable to learn early that there are more options in life than the most traditionally accepted. I wish I had felt more comfortable doing what I wanted instead of what was socially expected.
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The fundamental problem with progressivism โ and I say this as someone who was a leftist for my entire life, until maybe five years agoโis that progressives want there to be a different reality than the one that is, and become angered when confronted with reality, and blame whoever is presenting that reality to them for being the perpetrator of whatever unpleasant or imperfect reality presented.
Writers like Sarah Kendzior, Noam Chomsky, Craig Unger, and Matt Taibbi (to name just a few) affirm the idea that corruption abounds in politics, corporations, and financial institutions. We are told what they want us to hear and the real work goes on out of sight. โTransparencyโ is code for โwe can be trustedโ used to lull us into tโฆ