Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionReprinted with permission. Brain death is a controversial topic. Many people have received a life-saving organ donation from a person who was declared brain dead. This article does not question organ donation but it does question whether determinations of brain death are always accurate […]
Source: Nathaniel Peters via thepublicdiscourse.com Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission For the most significant choices of our lives, we only learn what the decision entails after we make it. This creates something of a dilemma. We […]
Source: Margarita Mooney Suarez via comment.org. This article originally appeared on October 15th, 2021 in Comment, a publication ofCARDUS: www.cardus.ca. When I took a wrong turn while driving with students in Rhode Island in the summer of 2019, we found ourselves driving over a bridge clouded in fog, seemingly going […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org. Staggeringly beautiful Catholic sacred art and church architectural forms carved into the rock in an ancient salt mine in Poland by miners. Thank you to Phil Burgess for bringing to my attention these staggering pictures of a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near […]
Source: Carlos Beltramo, Ph.D. via PRI European Office. Reprinted with permission. PDF download. WARSAW, Poland — The Catholic Faith is flourishing in Poland. Right now, in Advent, throngs of children bearing candles process at 6:00 a.m. into the dark church before Mass begins. The pews are crowded and parents tell […]
Source: Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek via thecatholicthing.org. Reprinted with permission. Since the 1960s, progressive Catholics have promoted a new morality to replace older, normative approaches that they believe foster guilt and exclusion. Prominent cardinals and bishops have embraced this “New Paradigm” and are using the international synodal process to spread […]
Source: John Stonesstreet & Kasey Leander via Breakpoint.org Copyright2022 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission. Recently, an impressive development in embryology was reported by the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science. Using only stem cells, without the presence of sperm, eggs, or even a womb, researchers successfully created […]
Source: Carl R. Trueman via thepublicdiscourse.com The idea that the self is something plastic—that, we believe, we can shape in any way we wish—is the West’s reigning idea of selfhood. This idea especially shapes our thinking about our sexual natures. The sexually autonomous view of the self gained widespread prominence […]
Source: Deacon Lawrence via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. I often think that one of the most overlooked periods of sacred art is the early 1900s. Christian artists of that period had a deep respect for tradition but were nit afraid to adapt traditional forms to contemporary needs. If anything their […]
Source: Katarina Carranco via pop.org Over geological time, the earth’s climate has varied from tropical (think dinosaurs) to ice age (think woolly mammoths) and back again. We’re currently living in an interglacial period, and if another ice age descends upon us, as it well may, there is nothing we can […]
Source: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Reprinted with permission. A Vancouver doctor who operates a euthanasia clinic has killed more than 400 people since legalization. A recent article promoting euthanasia for mental illness alone states that Dr Ellen Wiebe has killed more than 400 people by euthanasia for physical reasons […]
Source: Elayne Allen via thepublicdiscourse.com Reprinted with permission In modern societies, wealth is not tied to land or long-lasting material things, nor is it transmitted across generations; it is fluid, shapeshifting, and usually doesn’t extend beyond the horizon of our own lives and personal needs. This series attempts to offer fresh […]