Source: Word on Fire Institute via YouTube.com Join Mark Bradford, Fellow for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, for a powerful three-session seminar: “Three Threats to the Disabled—And What We Can Do About It.” In Session 1, explore how the eugenics movement has evolved in the US and the role […]
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The most abused (or unused) gift from God
Source: Biblical Bookworm via YouTube.com When I was a little girl, I remember a priest saying that “beauty is the most abused and unused gift from God”. After this idea has been living in my mind for years, I decided to expand on it in this video. Drawing the line […]
Racism, Human Dignity, and the Catholic Church in America (Part One)
Source: Word on Fire Institute We are made by God and for God. We are all his children, we share equal dignity, and each member of the human family is bound in that dignity. In the first part of “Racism, Human Dignity, and the Catholic Church in America,” Gloria Purvis […]
Making Children, Unmaking Families
Manufacturing children using the genetic material of multiple parents is not a prospect to be celebrated. It is a dystopian technology, making children, as if they were consumer goods, and unmaking the family, as if it were not essential to the common good. The New York Times recently ran an op-ed titled “The Poly-Parent Households are Coming.” It is notable for its celebratory approach to two future prospects: that human children might be created from manufactured gametes (sperm and egg) through a process called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)…