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by William E. May, Ph.D, Senior Fellow
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 There have been and will for some time continue to be, here in Washington and all over the country, vastly different responses to the election of Barack Obama to the office of the President of the United States. For America, the celebration over the election of our first African-American executive marks a long awaited hour in our nation’s history. Apart from this, I wish I could join in because a person’s skin color is irrelevant to his or her ability to serve as our president. But with others I am experiencing something more akin to mourning than celebration. Obama made his way to the presidency in part by hewing closely to the agenda of our nation’s most extreme abortion advocates. Working closely with them, he refused to ban the killing of infants “born-alive” after “botched” abortions. He raised funds on promises to preserve the legality of partial-birth homicide, and he promised if elected to sign a law wiping out virtually every small constraint on abortion that the pro-life community has managed to pass democratically for the last 35 years. Already, he is promising to undo via quick executive orders all that prior presidents have done to protect human lives during their embryonic stage.
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11/12/2008
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by Dr. William E. May
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 Joseph D’Agostinio says that Mosher, in his book Population Control, Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, “provides the material to counteract the overpopulation myth still dominant in the mainstream media,” and declares that his book “should be read by all those who want to know why thriving human populations are reasons to rejoice rather than fear” (in The Washington Times, July 27, 2008). I fear that, unfortunately, the major media will simply ignore this compelling book, one whose message sorely needs to be heeded and whose advice implemented for the good of our nation and of the whole world.
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10/16/2008
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by Culture of Life
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!!Action Item!!
Stand with us in support of the University of San
Diego's decision to keep its Theology Department free from heresy. It was the
right decision, and shows the kind of academic leadership Pope Benedict asked
Catholic educators to demonstrate when he visited the United States earlier this
year. Read more to sign the petition.
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09/03/2008
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by Dr. William E. May
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 Contemporary Western societies such as ours are marked by what Professor Robert George has called the “Clash of Orthodoxies.” The dominant view among the elites of those societies can be, I believe, summed up in the slogan, rooted in the culture of death, that “No unwanted person ought ever to be born.” Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, offers Catholics (and in my judgment others of good will and open mind) a real challenge: to transform the world in which they live so that it is dedicated to the truth, central to the culture of life and civilization of love, that “no person, whether born or unborn, weak or strong, is to be unwanted, i.e., unloved.”
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07/08/2008
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by John Paul II Translated by Dr. William E. May
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Translated by William E. May
Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology
John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at
The Catholic University of America
Author, Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life
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05/02/2008
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