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Teaching, Videos

Courage, Courage, Courage Needed to Endure Passive Purgation

St. John of the Cross explains that we need two kinds of purgation to make it to the higher levels of holiness and ultimately heaven. He calls them active and passive purgation. Active purgation is what we are tryingto do in Lent… take up voluntary penances to overcome ourselves. But,truth be told, we are too weak, too slow and too small of soul in performing such penances… So, God provides the needed cleansing by subjecting us to passive purgation.

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Conversions, Videos

Conversion Story: From Buddhism to Christianity W/ Evan Collins

Evan Collins became an atheist at just age 13, and he went to college became fascinated by Buddhism. He started to read more and felt an attraction to the philosophy, and started a Buddhist group. He took a class on the philosophy of religion in college in order to prove Christianity wrong. However, through that class he came to believe in an “unmoved, mover”. He took a class on St. Augustine’s Confessions, and, through discussion on Plato, the Natural Law, and Augustine’s world view he was persuaded to become a Catholic.

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Culture, Science & Society, Videos

Hope Ireland Webinar

Hope Ireland is a coalition of medical professionals and disability rights advocates who aim to bring informed perspectives to the debate around euthanasia and assisted suicide in Ireland. Listen to a conversation about Euthanasia & Assisted Dying featuring guests: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Professor Des O’Neill and Dr Sinéad Donnelly.

Articles, Culture, Science & Society

Claire Freeman was encouraged to consider assisted suicide.

Author: Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.Reprinted with permission. Claire Freeman was encouraged by the suicide outreach clinic to consider assisted suicide. An article published by Brinkwire news tells the story of Claire Freeman (41), a New Zealand woman who was paralysed at the age of 17 after being injured […]