Source: Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionReprinted with permission. Brain death is a controversial topic. Many people have received a life-saving organ donation from a person who was declared brain dead. This article does not question organ donation but it does question whether determinations of brain death are always accurate […]
Tag: Morality
The ‘New Paradigm’ Can’t Deliver
Source: Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek via thecatholicthing.org. Reprinted with permission. Since the 1960s, progressive Catholics have promoted a new morality to replace older, normative approaches that they believe foster guilt and exclusion. Prominent cardinals and bishops have embraced this “New Paradigm” and are using the international synodal process to spread […]
Steer Clear of the Corporate Moral Creed
Source: Brian Holdsworth via YouTube Support the channel by visiting https://brianholdsworth.ca Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: http://pauljernberg.com Why is it that corporations today are so enthusiastic about punctuating the work they do with moral instruction when it […]
Am I allowed to..(Material Cooperation with Evil)
Source: Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr, Mark-Mary of Ascension Presents via YouTube.com. Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Mark-Mary define material cooperation and discuss when our actions need to be evaluated based on our intentions and their effects. For even more on Catholic Morality for everyone, be sure to read Dr. […]
University Life Depends on the Moral Life
Source: John F. Doherty via thepublicdiscourse.com. Printed with permission.Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ. Reason cannot become right reason unless the will is in love with the Truth; intellectual formation requires moral formation. And yet, as my previous essay argued, the […]
“What Makes a Person Good? Aquinas and the Cardinal Virtues.”
Source: The Thomistic Institute via YouTube Title: Off-Campus Conversations with Fr. Gregory Pine, Ep. 001: Prof. Jenn Frey Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Jenn Frey about her latest Thomistic Institute lecture, “What Makes a Person Good? […]
Bishop Barron on Not Dumbing Down the Faith: Answers to Young People’s Pressing Religious Questions
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube Friends, at the Regional Congress 2.0 Teach event, I presented on the importance of not dumbing down the faith as we engage in religious education. Young people enjoy asking about and discussing the big questions, from God’s existence, to how to be a good […]
Why Being Good Is Not Enough
Friends, no indication whatsoever is given in Scripture that the moral prescriptions are somehow more important than the liturgical prescriptions. Being a good person is not enough—it’s crucially important to be aligned to God in his divine splendor through ritual and ceremony. My concern is, as our churches begin to open, that some may forget the vital importance and essentiality of the Mass.