Christianity is constantly being faced with antagonistic views from the secular world, which puts it in conflict with the ideologies of ‘post-modernist’ thinking. It is no surprise that Christianity suffers as a result (Mat. 10:22, John 15:20).This category reflects Catholic teaching and understanding on a range of difficult social and moral issues.
Critique of Marcuse’s theory of “eros” and politics, in relation to “woke” culture’s love of ugliness (emphasizing Marcuse’s overlap with Adorno). To help the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/europos For expanded/written versions of videos: https://europos.substack.com/ Header image: Photo by Moises Gonzalez on Unsplash
***YouTube Keeps Turning Off Comments for This Episode*** In this episode, Trent reveals how assisted suicide advocates reach new lows in demanding state-sanctioned killing. To support this channel: / counseloftrent [ NEW] Counsel of Trent merch: https://shop.catholic.com/apologists-… Be sure to keep up with our socials! / counseloftrent / counseloftrent / counseloftrentpodcast Timestamps: 00:00 The Assisted Suicide […]
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Reprinted with permission. Canada had approximately 15,280 euthanasia deaths in 2023 (Article Link). I would like to thank Alexander Raikin for his research report on the Rise of Euthanasia in Canada that was produced for and published by Cardus. In one week there have been three exceptional […]
Source: William Kilpatrick via Turning Point Project Reprinted with permission The tendency toward what C.S. Lewis termed “chronological snobbery” is probably more pronounced in our own age than at any time in history. Much has been made of the fact that an Arizona law that prohibits abortion was first enacted in 1864. […]
Source: Decrevi Determined to be Catholic @thecatholicman via YouTube Shorts. Bishop Robert Barron responds to the apology given for the disrespectful treatment of Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper of Christ’ at the 2024 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, France.
Source: Kurt Mahlburg via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission. It’s a question so commonly encountered by parents seeking help for their gender-dysphoric child that it’s almost become a meme — and a morbid one at that. On the surface, “Would you rather a dead daughter or a living son?” sounds like […]
Source: The New Cultural Forum via YouTube. After the closure of the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Service, many people have been left wondering how such institutional medical abuse of children could possibly have happened, and be allowed to happen for so long. How could some of the extremes of gender ideology […]
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: Margaret Harper Mc Carthy via thepublicdiscourse.comOriginally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. The contemporary distinction between sex and gender downgrades human beings to “biological” males or females with detached “identities.” We should reject this, and insist instead […]
Source: mercatornet.org Reprinted with from mercatornet.org with permission from Bitter Winter Following its groundbreaking report of February 2020, “Uyghurs for Sale,” further investigations by the ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) have unearthed more evidence that, far from scaling back its activities following adverse publicity towards its policies, the CCP has unashamedly stepped […]
Header image: Complicit Clergy via YouTube Fr. Daniel Nolan reflects upon the old adage that those who ignorant of the past are bound to repeat it. Fr. Nolan offers a number of historical examples of when government officials conducted unethical scientific experiments on its citizens and then lied about it. […]
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 […]