***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 […]
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.
The Rise of Euthanasia in Canada: From Exceptional to Routine
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 […]
If Our Ancestors Were So Smart, How Come They’re Dead?
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. […]
Bishop Barron Responds to Olympic Apology
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.
‘Would you rather a dead daughter or a living son?’ debunked by Finnish study
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 […]
Heresies Ep. 12: Trans, Racist & Woke: How Psychology Went MAD
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 […]
Creating Organs Cannot Be at the Expense of Human Embryos
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 […]
Say “No” to the New Binary
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 […]
Stepping up the pace of Uyghur forced labour in China
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 […]
Fr. Nolan: Government Has Lied to Us Before
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. […]
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 […]