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Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.

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Psychiatrist: Anorexia does not justify Aid in Dying

Source: Alex Schadenberg, via Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Reprinted with permission. In a recent article published by Reuters, a 47-year-old Canadian woman with anorexia nervosa (AN) tells a reporter that when an expansion of the criteria for medically assisted death comes into effect in March 2024, she plans to apply for medical aid […]

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What Is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson

Source: James Matthew Wilson, Mark Shiffman and Austin Walker via thepublicdiscourse.com. Reprinted with permission. Ideology replaces respect for the dignity of the human person with celebration of a new humanity required for its perfected social and political order. Introduction by Austin Walker, Associate Director of the Lumen Christi Institute. Ideology […]

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On the Subject of Miracles

Source: Donald deMarco via National Catholic Register Reprinted with permission Science, which studies the nature and order of the physical universe, by virtue of its limitations, is unable to confirm or deny that there are such things as miracles. A miracle, by definition, defies the laws of nature.  Being habituated […]

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Catholics and Protestants Slide Together into Gnostic Private Cults

Source: William Kilpatrick via turningpointproject.com Reprinted with permission The second of a two-part series. Until recently, Protestants were more likely than Catholics to succumb to the Gnostic temptation I described in a recent column. In a 2008 article for Modern Reformation, Philip J. Lee described how both Mainline and “born again” Protestants were […]

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‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

Source: Wesley J. Smith via humanize.today Reprinted with permission. The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious […]

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Rolling Back The Tide Of Post Vatican II Iconoclasm: The Newly Revealed Wall Painting At The Oxford Oratory

Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. When Margarita and I visit Oxford, we regularly attend Mass at the Oxford Oratory. I was excited, therefore, when a friend and parishioner at the Oxford Oratory drew my attention to this spectacular development in its ongoing restoration project. The white paint […]