It’s a common misconception (no pun intended) that “Immaculate Conception” refers to the Roman Catholic teaching that the ...

What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin ...

Even after nearly 2,000 years, we still have trouble fully appreciating the church's teaching about the conception of Mary.

To the editor: Taking issue with a recent statement of the mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to “serve and protect Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception,” ...

Some of the old distractions concerning the abortion debate have been circulating, including in letters to the editor in the News Tribune (Reader's View: "Are pro-life zealots really control freaks?" ...

This complicated but fundamental question has enormous ethical, legal, medical, philosophical, religious and scientific overtones. An article in The Journal of the Association of Basic Medical ...

The response to the coronavirus outbreak has rightly been about protecting human life. As a nation, we have taken extraordinary steps to protect public health and save lives. However, there is a huge ...

After repeated, recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden that he does not believe human life begins at the moment of conception, or characterizing such a belief as a matter of faith, scientists ...

A new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) draft Strategic Plan for 2018 through 2022 contains verbiage defining human life as "beginning at conception" (i.e. with the fertilization of ...

Human rights developed in response to specific violations of human dignity, and can therefore be conceived as specifications of human dignity, their moral source. This internal relationship explains ...