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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 […]
The most extreme abortion regime in the world has been imposed on our part of the island of Ireland, despite the fact that the majority of our elected representatives oppose it and without any opportunity for the Northern Irish electorate, to say ‘yay’ or ‘nay’.
Even though China’s economy has been severely affected by the coronavirus, and many residents suffer financial difficulties, the CCP threatens to take away the last means of survival from elderly believers—government-issued subsidies. To keep them, they must stop believing in God.
Modern accounts of personhood fail because they do not explain deep-seated moral intuitions about the value of human life.
The 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (based on a novel of the same name) is a fictional story about the friendship between an eight-year-old son of a Nazi concentration camp officer and another eight-year-old who is one of the camp’s prisoners. The boy, named Bruno, thinks the camp is merely a farm and asks his father why the farmers “wear pajamas” (which are actually inmate uniforms). Bruno’s father begins his answer, ominously:
New Age is a term that encompasses a broad spectrum of spiritual, philosophical, and theological thought developing in the West since the eighteenth century, mainly in counterpoint to (if not in direct reaction against) the rationalism of the Enlightenment. New Age suggests that adherents are seeking to usher in a new phase in human history (i.e., a “new age” or new epoch) through their spiritual practices and their philosophical and theological developments of traditional Western religious thought and practice.
Source: The Catholic Gentleman via catholicgentleman.netReprinted with permission Because pornography use is so widely used and accepted today, many people may wonder if they are addicted to it. According to Dr. Mark Laaser (1992) pornography/sexual addiction is “any persistent and escalating unhealthy pattern of sexual behavior. It is compulsive in […]
YouTube bans content that contradicts WHO on Covid-19, despite its track record of misinformation This article was originally published on FEE.org. It has been republished under a Creative Commons licence. Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. He co-hosts […]
Source: Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem., Catholic Answers via catholic.comReprinted with permission Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., is a Norbertine of St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California. He grew up in South Pasadena and is a convert from the Episcopal Church. After earning a bachelor’s degree in classics from the University […]
Source: Trent Horn, Catholic Answers via catholic.com After his conversion to the Catholic faith, Trent Horn earned master’s degrees in the fields of theology, philosophy, and bioethics. He serves as a staff apologist for Catholic Answers, where he specializes in teaching Catholics to graciously and persuasively engage those who disagree […]
Source: William Jeynes via thepublicdiscourse.comOriginally appeared int Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. William Jeynes is Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach. He graduated first in his class from Harvard University. He has served as a speaker and advisor for […]
Source: Wesley J. Smith via Discovery InstituteReprinted with permission CHAIR AND SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER ON HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on […]
Source: E. Michael Jones via culturewars.com E. Michael Jones: “God has a plan for your life. You’ve probably heard me say this before. I’ve talked about my own life, about how getting fired from my job as an assistant professor at St. Mary’s College was the best thing that ever happened […]