Conservatives are generally good at conserving, and we are particularly aware of the continuities across the human condition. But given today’s conditions, when so much has changed so recently and so many social problems bedevil us, we need to get great at creating new institutions.
Wherever it is legalised, euthanasia becomes more and more integrated into the practice of medicine. One of the more useful — or ghoulish – developments, depending on your point of view, is euthanasia with organ donation.
Source: catholicgentleman.netReprinted with permission How many times have you vowed to exercise more, eat better, or get more sleep? Or on a spiritual level, promised yourself that you were going to pray more consistently, practice certain virtues, or embrace asceticism more willingly? Yet, when it comes time to move idea […]
Source: Catholic Online via YouTube Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 1877, Josephine was kidnapped by Arab slave traders. And over the next 12 years, she would be bought, sold and given away over a dozen times. Her experiences as a […]
Fr. Mark Goring wants to undertake a sailing trip based on an idea he got from reading Sirach, Chapter 13. It states that “the number of a man’s days are great if he reaches 100 years. Like a drop of water in the sea or a grain of sand. Such as these few years compared to eternity”. Fr. Mark says that most of us are living as if this life is all we have. We don’t realise that our citizenship is in heaven. So, Fr. Mark wants to sail out into the middle lake Ontario and put a drop of water into that sea!
A docudrama with high production values, recounts the amazing story of St. Veronica Giuliani. This Italian woman, experienced the full range of mystical experiences, from great suffering to great ecstasy, all the while fulfilling her assigned daily duties under very difficult circumstances. Yet her life story had remained relatively unknown until the end of the 20th Century. Only now is her life coming to greater prominence, perhaps because she is a woman with a message for our troubled times.
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We all see the world through our own lens. The media we partake of—the news we read, the podcasts we listen to, the videos we watch—shapes that lens. But Fr. Mike says there’s one thing that should be shaping our lens more than anything else: scripture.
As a leader in New Age thought, Deepak Chopra has taken it upon himself to explain the real meaning of Jesus. But does he shed light on the real Jesus or invent a new Jesus of his own? We asked Trent Horn.
Ascension Presents via YouTube To clear up some misunderstandings regarding demonic activity, Fr. Mark-Mary offers a short crash course on the matter. There are four main kinds of demonic activity: Temptation: when the devil subtly invites a soul to sinInfestation: when there is demonic activity in a placeOppression: when demonic […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube Friends, by a basic and healthy instinct, Catholic social teaching wishes power to be shared widely throughout local communities, overcoming tyranny and promoting charity. The Church advocates neither absolutist statist control nor indifferent individual freedom. Instead, it holds out an economics and politics of […]
When we use our reason to try to understand something, we are assuming, from the outset, that the thing we are investigating can be understood by reason because it is reasonable and that it will reveal itself in a rational way, that behind the mystery of the thing, there is order and governance that can be discerned.