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Blurring Right and Wrong
By Judie Brown Aristotle once wrote, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Indeed, those words reflect the commonsense attitude of someone who has learned the difference between good and evil and who proceeds to act on it rather than resort to the popular theory that if something feels right to you it is acceptable, regardless of whether it...
Organ Transplants, ‘Brain Death,’ and Church Teaching
I thought that I recently read where the Church said that determining when a person is dead falls under the purview of the medical community, not theologians.
The Herx Case: Is it About God’s Law or Politics?
A few days ago, Emily Herx, a teacher in a Catholic school, announced to the nation through major media outlets that she had been fired from a Catholic school because she used in vitro fertilization in an attempt to get pregnant.
America’s Cultural X Factor
In algebra, “X” is an unknown quantity. The challenge is to figure out what value X has in order to derive the correct answer.
Bishop Jenky Confronts Evil
More than 500 Catholic men recently walked a mile in the rain in Peoria, Illinois.
Bishops File Appeal in Defense of Reason and Truth
What do sex trafficking and abortion have in common? Well, according to a federal judge, Catholic service agencies that refuse to offer abortion to women victimized by sex trafficking are not eligible for government funding.
Eugenics as a Human Right?
Currently there is a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that all of us across the world should be watching very carefully.