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. […]
Topical Issues
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.
Making monkeys out of us
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 […]
The Top Five Lies About Islam You Probably Learned in Church
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 […]
A closer look at the AI hype machine: who really benefits?
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 […]
How Schools Are Creating ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY
Source: SowellTV via YouTube This is an excerpt from Thomas Sowell’s ‘Dismantling America’ — https://amzn.to/3BjFHnT Header image: SowellTV via YouTube