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A rise in executions in the United States in 2025 occurred alongside "shifting public opinion" against the death penalty, offering anti-death-penalty advocates a hopeful sign going into 2026 even amid high levels of capital punishment. Two is already too many
Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them. The rest of the world can learn from Korea?s catastrophe to avoid the same fate. Persona humana at Fifty: Why the Church's sexual ethics still matter today
Persona humana appeared seven years after Humanae vitae. Its background lies in the progressive erosion of Catholic sexual ethics begun during the 1960s and early 1970s, a process accelerated by the famous papal birth control commission convoked under John XXIII. Premature Baby Boy Had His Feeding Tube Removed in Time for Christmas
A premature baby boy, who was born at only 25 weeks gestation, had his feeding tube removed just in time for Christmas. Russian launches missile and drone strikes against Ukraine ahead of Christmas
Officials say massive Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine have killed at least three people, including a four-year-old child, while cutting power to several regions just two days before Christmas, as the country faces bitter winter cold. Pope Leo asks for 24 hours of peace worldwide at Christmas
Pope Leo addresses journalists outside Castel Gandolfo and answers questions on Ukraine and on assisted suicide laws in the United States. Christmas 2025 Reflection: The Incarnation and the Dignity of the Human Person
The Incarnation is not one doctrine among many. Rather, it is the definitive answer to humanity's deepest questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose and end? What does it mean to be human? The Christian response is not an abstract philosophy, but a Person - Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Same-sex 'parenting' is an injustice against children - and the data prove it
If you've ever argued against same-sex 'marriage' or same-sex 'parenting,' you've probably been hit with what your opponent thinks is a mic-drop: a link to Cornell University's roundup claiming that 75 out of 79 studies show children of gay or lesbian 'parents' fare no worse than other children. The glossy PDF 'What Does the Scholarly Research Say?' Just happened to be ready on the eve of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision legalizing gay 'marriage. Assisted Suicide is Creating a "Death on Demand" Society in America
It is undeniable that the killing of the vulnerable has taken a firm hold in our culture, ranging from the legal dehydration and starvation of the brain-injured and elderly - including my sister, Terri Schiavo - to the steady expansion of doctor-assisted suicide. All of this is sold as mercy, compassion, "dying with dignity," and, most commonly, the claim that we must relieve "suffering." Make no mistake: doctor-assisted suicide is the practice in which a physician prescribes lethal drugs with the explicit intent of poisoning a person to death Indiana Abortions Drop 98% as Abortion Ban Saves Babies
Indiana's abortion ban has dramatically reduced the number of abortions in the state, saving countless unborn babies, according to the latest data from the Indiana Department of Health. More Headlines…
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My Christmas greeting this year arrives amid a world that feels heavy - news of conflict, loss, climate anxiety, economic strain, and a loneliness many of us carry in silence. At the same time, the season presses forward with lights, lists, and inescapable shopping frenzies that make it easy to lose sight of why we celebrate. Yet it is precisely in this tension - between the rushing and the brokenness - that the deeper meaning of Christmas can be found and lived. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog... Ethical Perspectives Ann Farmer
The feminist mantra "a woman's right to choose" sounds empowering, but for the neediest pregnant women, there is increasingly only one "choice," as abortion advocates try to criminalize last-minute offers of help - help that abortion providers do not provide. There is no right to a child, only the right to obtain rid of one, allowing reluctant fathers to avoid supporting their partners and children and enabling society to avoid supporting the unsupported by offering the insupportable. Abortion campaign pioneers argued that unwanted pregnancies led to unwanted children and miserable mothers, even citing child cruelty as evidence of maternal regret; but however difficult their circumstances, most mothers do not regret their children, and the reality of post-abortion trauma also contradicts such claims. Shenan J. Boquet
Almost exactly two years ago, Canadian pro-life activist Alissa Golob walked into four different abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. At the time, Golob was 22 weeks pregnant. She disclosed her desire for an abortion to the staff at each facility. In each of them, she was assured that she could get an abortion, no matter what. Not only could she get an abortion now, she was repeatedly told, but it would be possible to get an abortion even much further into her pregnancy, no questions asked. John Stonestreet
Not all activities can be measured in the utilitarian way that fans of AI claim. Andrew Abela
What we need is a restoration of virtue in our land, in order to tame the strong gods and ensure that their power serves the good - so that the return to reality is marked not by domination, but by integrity, not by chaos, but by character. Kurt Mahlburg
The court upheld Japan's longstanding marriage law as constitutional, affirming that marriage is between a man and a woman, and emphasising that any legal change should be made by parliament, not the judiciary.
Theresa Burke
Clarissa's experience is an example of how an abortion can become interwoven with issues concerning maternal identity. Here we will explore how abortion can affect a woman's perception of her own maternal nature and that of others. Judie Brown
In our quest to heal our nation of the scourge of abortion, let us never forget that, where Catholics have lost faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, there will be no effort to condemn the crime of abortion. And since more than half of Catholics cast a vote in favor of a pro-abortion Catholic, we know how massive a challenge we are facing. Michael Cook
Torture is an issue on which the public might expect bioethicists to be moral absolutists. Janet E. Smith
Those who believe abortion to be a morally permissible act are not troubled by the charge that use of aborted fetal tissue amounts to complicity in abortion. Since they do not believe the fetus is a person, they maintain that it is permissible to use fetal tissue much in the same way one could use the hair gathered from the floor of a barber shop. They see use of fetal tissue as transforming what seems to be needless waste into a compassionate good. Theresa Burke
The past is like a great cave. It's easy to be afraid of what might be lying in all those dark corners. But when we fearlessly explore it and understand its terrain, we can mine it for precious gems and nuggets of gold. Those memories of mistakes, those experiences of trauma, which we were once afraid to explore, can be mined for nuggets of wisdom and empathy that will serve us well in the future. By exploring these dark crannies, these disturbing connections, we will discover the resolve and resources to better serve both others and ourselves. Carolyn Moynihan
The skinny little kid rapping away on the stage has short spiky hair and baggy pants and jacket, just like a boy, and his voice hasn't broken yet so it passes as a girl's. Judie Brown
We are living in a time of egoism run amuck! That is how we view the American landscape where, in recent months, it is safer to be a dog than it is to be a human being. Wesley J. Smith
In his book, Smith argues that, at the urging of an elite group of bioethicists, the health care industry is moving away from the 'do no harm' model established by Hippocrates and toward a stark utilitarian system that would legitimize medical discrimination against -- and even in some cases, the killing of -- the weakest and most defenseless of society. Irving News Comments
The "rationale" behind the British amendment that allows Wilmut to clone human beings is exactly the same "rationale" behind Irving Weissman's California Stem Cell Initiative (Proposition 71), as well as the two reports on human cloning and HESCR he chaired for the National Academy of Sciences, and the Stearn Congressional cloning "ban". That is, they claim that the immediate product of nuclear transplantation is JUST A CELL, not an ORGANISM (i.e., a human BEING).
Michael Cook
When a 17-year-old rejects chemotherapy - with her mother's support - the state should step in.
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