A guest on Dr. Phil has severely disabled adult children, and she wants the right to be able to euthanize them. A mother of disabled children in the audience is rightly appalled by this, since it’s cold-blooded murder. Dr. Phil asks his audience for a show of hands for all those who think a mother should be allowed to [...]
Isn’t it touching when gangsters dedicated to the industrial-scale slaughter of children are able to kiss and make up with the charity they managed to intimidate into quiescence? New money will be flowing from Komen to Planned Parenthood from new grants issued after the policy that disqualified Planned Parenthood: Grants from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for [...]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a statement on the vexed issue of religious liberty in America, and the current attacks upon it. Called “Our First, Most Treasured Liberty,” it outlines the ongoing assault on our religious freedom and urges prayer and action in response. As the document says, “We need, therefore, [...]
Amateur eugenicist and billionaire spouse Melinda Gates is professing her Catholicism out of one side of her mouth and extolling the Wonderful Healing Powers of Contraception out of the other. Melinda provides her Catholic bona fides as follows: I grew up in a Catholic home, and I am still a practicing Catholic. My mother’s great uncle was [...]
National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D. calls the image above “a high resolution wiring diagram of our brains.” Well, sort of, but I won’t fault the guy for reaching for a bit of overstatement in order to produce a pithy soundbite, and what the team has accomplished is pretty dang amazing. [...]
This beautiful series of photographs from the BBC shows how people have created artificial limbs as far back as ancient Egypt. There’s a poignant beauty to many of these creations, particularly the steel and brass arm pictured above, which dates from some time between 1840 and 1940. From the past, we turn to two visions of [...]
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia offers one of the most powerful meditations on modern life I’ve seen in ages. In it, he ties together the descent of our culture into a kind of moral insanity, its eugenicist tendencies, and its profound frivolity. He begins by linking the extermination of unborn children with Down Syndrome and [...]
This was the first thing I wrote for Patheos, two years ago. It’s about St. Dymphna, the patron saint of those with “nervous disorders”: in other words, the mentally ill. She’s a tough saint to love: The problem for anyone with a devotion to St. Dymphna is that her story may be mere legend, embellished [...]
In the three videos embedded below, Servant of God Fulton Sheen, one of the great preachers (and, yes, saints) of the last century explains the mystery of suffering with his usual mix of humor, drama, and philosophy. Catholics always have understood suffering in the context of the cross. Although pain may come, it ends in triumph. St. [...]
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