Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: Louis T. March via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. Crunch Time Has Come The pages of the New York Times are holy writ to the chattering classes – de rigueur reading for woke folk. For once, that is a good thing. Huh? Yes – America’s nomenklatura now know about the global fertility crisis. Wouldn’t have […]
Source: European Christian Political Movement via sallux.eu The legalization of euthanasia is increasingly a topic for discussion in countries across Europe. During these discussions, references are often made to the Netherlands, the first country in the world that legalized euthanasia. In order to ensure that policy makers and other parties […]
Source: Michael Cook via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. The cancelling of Gina Carano foreshadows more sinister developments The Force is no longer with Gina Carano, one of the stars of The Mandalorian, the wildly popular spin-off from the Star Wars films. She has been cancelled. Twitter erupted with #FireGinaCarano and Lucasfilm dutifully […]
Source: mariadivinemercytrueorfalse.blogspot.com Issued to the clergy, religious and lay faithful of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, the reproduced image below of the official pastoral letter from the Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Mark Coleridge, effectively makes it official the Church’s condemnation of the false prophet Maria Divine Mercy or MDM. […]
Source: Professor David Albert Jones via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission. A US-Chinese team of scientists have produced embryos that include human cells and cells of a nonhuman primate, the long-tailed macaque. What are we to make of such experiments? How are we to assess their ethical implications? Historical precedent The first thing to […]
Source: James Bradshaw, via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. Historically, the relationship between Church and State in Ireland was unique. Professor John Henry Whyte’s (1928-1990) Church & State in Modern Ireland, 1923 – 1970 was published in 1971. Whyte described the purpose of the book as being three-fold. He aimed to examine Church-State relations […]
Source: The Turning Point Project Preprinted with permission Amidst the blur of violent, tragic events in Afghanistan, The Stream decided to ask for some perspective from an expert on the Islamic faith and its links to political conflict and violence, author William Kilpatrick. John Zmirak: You’re an expert on Islam. You have a […]
There is a kind of quasi-worship of technology that puts AI at the center of human existence. Source: Tom Valovic via mercatornet.com Tom Valovic is a journalist and the author of Digital Mythologies (Rutgers University Press), a series of essays that explored emerging social and political issues raised by the […]
Source: Carson Holloway via Public DiscourseReprinted with permission Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and co-editor of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press). Many have argued that without God there can be no fixed moral principles. George Orwell’s 1984 goes […]
Source: Free to Change via mercatornet.com Reprinted with permission A proposed ban on ‘conversion therapy’ ignores the experiences of many formerly LGBT people I am an ex-lesbian, as well as someone who experienced gender dysphoria as a child. Now I am married to a patient and gracious man and have […]
Source: The Burkean via theburkean.ie The following is a syndication of a 2020 blog post by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In it he defends the right of Hungary to operate as a free Christian nation against the subversive role played by foreign human rights NGOs in particular those financed by the […]
Source: William Kirkpatrick via turningpointproject.com The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem Witch Trials is often used by educators to teach students about the dangers that arise when true believers try to impose their orthodoxies on the rest of us. Indeed, Miller wrote the play during the era of […]