Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: Jon Miltimore via FEE StoriesReprinted with permission. Mass fear can result in censorship that is just as stifling and oppressive as government bans, history shows. William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, […]
Source: Michael Pakaluk via crisismagazine.com. Reprinted with permission. In ethical questions, one has to follow the right method. Right method does not mean coming up with an argument that seems obvious to you, even if it implies that lots of thoughtful people are deluded. This is how the EPPC signatories […]
Source: Kurt Mahlburg via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. Fighting the American version of Mao’s Cultural Revolution Critical, race and theory are three words that have been lighting up media outlets across the United States. A debate that began among cultural pundits has now broken out into the national spotlight, as parents confront school district boards […]
Source: Francis Phillips via mercatornet.orgReprinted with permission. This new study takes a look at the famous Holy Shroud from a position of both religion and science. A Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of TurinBy Gerard Verschuuren, Sophia Institute Press, 2021, 240 pages People who read the title of this book […]
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 […]