Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: James Bradshaw via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission Robert Nisbet’s book ‘The Quest for Community’ is required reading for anyone who wants to understand contemporary chaos Almost 70 years has passed since the publication of The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom. In what New York […]
Source: William Kilpatrick via turningpointproject.comReprinted with permission There’s an almost dream-like quality to the events of the last 12 months. Depending on their political/cultural views, the dream will be experienced by some as pleasant, by others as disturbing, and by still others as nightmarish. For those in the latter category, […]
Intrigued by the idea of a Catholic platform where Catholic sellers and buyers can meet? So was I. Here’s my interview with David Rummelhoff, the man behind peterssquare.com who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Source: Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionReprinted with permission. Dr Joel Zivot who is an assistant professor of anesthesiology/critical care at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, was published today in Medpage Today explaining, based on the pharmacology, how an assisted death happens. Alex Schadenberg writes: “I have written on […]
Conservatives are generally good at conserving, and we are particularly aware of the continuities across the human condition. But given today’s conditions, when so much has changed so recently and so many social problems bedevil us, we need to get great at creating new institutions.
Wherever it is legalised, euthanasia becomes more and more integrated into the practice of medicine. One of the more useful — or ghoulish – developments, depending on your point of view, is euthanasia with organ donation.
Source: catholicgentleman.netReprinted with permission How many times have you vowed to exercise more, eat better, or get more sleep? Or on a spiritual level, promised yourself that you were going to pray more consistently, practice certain virtues, or embrace asceticism more willingly? Yet, when it comes time to move idea […]
Journalist Suzanne Moore says she was “betrayed and bullied for saying that women should not be silenced”, quitting her long-time job at The Guardian newspaperafter writing an article in March this year reiterating her view that “women are women”, that sex is a biological fact…
Source: Michael Egnor via evolutionnews.orgReprinted with permission. I got involved in the intelligent design movement before I became a Christian, although the insight that ID offered became important in my conversion. I had been an atheist, or at least an agnostic. I took a Randian (as in Ayn Rand) perspective […]
Source: David Klinghoffer via evolutionnews.orgReprinted with permission Here in Washington State, another draconian lockdown against Covid goes into effect at midnight tonight. It was announced yesterday morning by the governor, backed by an assortment of experts. As of last night the toilet paper had already been emptied from supermarket shelves. […]
Source: Christoper O. Tollefsen via thepublicdiscourse.comReprinted with permission. The use of fetal tissue from aborted human beings in medical research predicates the health of some on the deliberate destruction of the lives and health of others. That predication is incompatible with the fundamental commitments of medicine. In the face of […]
Source: Tadeusz Pacholczyk via thepublicdiscourse.comReprinted with permission. If the president and his administration are to be credibly accused of inconsistency with respect to their stance on using fetal cell lines from abortions, it would not be because the president personally received a dose of Regeneron’s drug, but rather because of […]