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Why Americans Are Falling Out of Love with LGBT 'Pride'
Same-sex marriage was sold to the public as loving and harmless. We were told that "love is love" and that "marriage equality" would have no negative effects on the rest of us. But the slope was slippery, and assurances of 'live and let live' proved to be a lie.

They Euthanized My Mom and Told Me Her Ashes Were in the Mail
We don't solve pain anymore we sedate it, ignore it, or euthanize it. What does that say about us?

Marc Rubio Says UN Has "Lost Its Purpose" by Promoting Abortion
Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently told Congress that the United Nations has "lost its purpose" and "lost its mission" by promoting abortion through international family planning programs.

Doctor Euthanizes 12-Year-Old Child
The media is (properly) reporting that a Dutch doctor euthanized -- i.e. killed -- a sick twelve-year-old child (illness not reported). It is a "first" under a new Dutch law that allows euthanasia for children ages one to twelve.

New York bishops say gender-neutral language law 'mocks the foundation of the family'
Under the new law, "mother" would be replaced with "gestating parent," and "father" would become "non-gestating parent."

Image vs. Truth: Bodily Confusion in a Virtual World
From Evie Estes with Ruah Woods Institute: "The Church does not teach that our bodies are perfect in their present state or that appearances are irrelevant. It teaches something deeper: our bodies have dignity because they are animated by a spiritual soul & our sexual identity is part of this unity."

Pope to grandparents and elderly: God's loving eyes are upon you at all times
The Pope acknowledged that quite a few elderly people share the painful feeling of being forgotten, especially as they experience loneliness or sometimes being reduced to a bed number or illness.

How Can Anyone Defend Transgender Sports After This?!
Allowing boys to compete in girls sports isn't just wrong--a new lawsuit reveals that it can make girls vulnerable to sexual assault, even alleged vaginal penetration. Yes, according to a verified complaint filed in a federal court Tuesday, a young man who claimed to identify as female not only competed against a teenage girl in girls' wrestling, but also digitally penetrated her vagina, causing lasting pain." How can anyone defend transgender sports policies after this?

What Parents Need to Know About AI Deepfakes and Teen Safety
AI-generated deepfakes are no longer a future concern--they're already impacting schools, friendships, and the lives of young people. This article explores how deepfake technology is being used, why teens are particularly vulnerable, and what parents can do to help navigate a rapidly changing digital landscape. Deepfake abuse is becoming increasingly accessible and widespread, creating new risks for youth online.

Meet The Man Urging Mothers Not To Abort 'Inconvenient' Babies Like Him
Ryan Bomberger was conceived in rape, yet his mother chose life. While serving in the military, Bomberger?s mother, Sharon, was raped and refused an abortion. Instead, she put her son up for adoption, ?a decision,? Bomberger said, ?that has caused beautiful generational reverberations.?

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AI, Faith, and the Future: Becoming the Person God Created You to Be in a Digital World

If I could sit down with a group of university students and young adults today, there is one conversation I would want us to have. It would not begin with computers or robots. It would begin with a much more important question: What kind of person do you want to become?

As you prepare for your future, you will make decisions about your studies, your career, your friendships, and perhaps one day your marriage and family. At the same time, you are entering a world where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday life. Technology will influence many of those decisions. But it should never define the person you become. That is why this article is not really about AI. It is about you. It is about building a life of wisdom, character, and faith in a world that is changing faster than ever before.

The eight questions that follow are an invitation to think beyond technology and to consider something far more important: how to build a life of character in an age of Artificial Intelligence. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Can We Humanize Our Brave New World?

Samantha Stephenson
The elimination of suffering will not produce joy. If we seek to be truly free, we must acknowledge our responsibilities to one another. We will flourish to the extent that we all can flourish.

New! AI, Magnifica Humanitas, and the Law of the Golem

Seth C. Oranburg
The Talmudic and rabbinic tradition diverges from the latest encyclical, and the divergence highlights a paradox in the papal logic. Leo XIV's strongest move, his categorical prohibition against the use of AI to make "lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions," demands a more principled distinction between the Switchblade and the CyberKnife.

New! Walking with and Understanding Your Gender-Confused Child

Susan Ciancio
Not knowing or loving yourself is one of the fiercest battles we face as human beings. Countless people suffer from low self-esteem, from self-doubt, and even from self-loathing. But what happens when these feelings are compounded by a lack of comfort or even a disgust about your sex organs? This is what people face when they experience gender dysphoria, and it's incredibly confusing when it's a child - especially when it's your child.

New! Compassion and Love Can Prevent Euthanasia

Marie Brousseau
The elderly are immense gifts to society, yet too often today we see that our culture focuses on personal fulfillment, which can then lead to the neglect of people who are no longer deemed necessary or productive. This includes the sick and the elderly, who may feel lonely, abandoned, and isolated from their own families.

Against False Technological Necessity

Emily Hancock
AI can shift how we communicate with one another, what work looks like for many roles, how relationships unfold, and how we order our lives. Much of our reaction to these projects reflects the understanding that this technology has the power to reshape the way humanity marches into the future, and not always in a way that serves the greater good.

Ethics will always play catch-up in the war on terror

Michael Cook
A deeply utilitarian mindset pervades US foreign policy.

Proof of Insanity

Judie Brown
Insanity is a descriptive adjective meaning a disordered state of mind as well as something that is unreasonable or utterly foolish. While this definition should apply to the wily avengers who stalk the most vulnerable, attempting to convince them that assisted suicide ensures "death with dignity," we see that most folks move on untroubled. This is so because assisted suicide is growing in popularity, which underscores the fact that far too many find it perfectly acceptable to end one's life rather than await the will of God.

... To You That Listen (Ordinary Times 7)

Proclaim Sermons
Jesus aims these hard teachings at ... you who listen. Are we listening? What shall we who are listening do? How shall we "be," in this increasingly polarized world?

Technology in the Family Home: Add before You Subtract

Dixie Lane
There is no shortage of opinions on how to manage the ubiquity of technology. Every parent will have his or her own opinion on these matters. But there is one key, frankly very uncomfortable, factor without which even the best of such ideas are sure to fail our kids: that at least in part, responsible technology use is caught, not taught. The modeling parents offer matters a great deal. And we do not always model well.

The Slaughter of Girls Continues in India

Steven Mosher
Nearly 550,000 unborn girls are killed in India every year by sex-selective abortion, a newly released report from the Population Research Institute (PRI) has found. The findings highlight the shocking extent to which girls in India - and other parts of the world - continue to be selectively targeted for abortion and elimination.

India: Curious case of anti-farmer, anti-consumer, self-pricing tomatoes

Asia Human Rights
Looking at the pattern of tomato pricing in India, year after year, could lead one to believe that tomatoes are pricing themselves, evilly conspiring against the farmers producing them and the consumers buying them, helping only the intermediaries in the process.

Most American teens are watching porn, says disturbing report

Thomas Lickona
Anybody who cares about the healthy sexual and character development of children should read the report, Teens and Pornography issued earlier this year by the organization Common Sense Media. The report was based on a representative national survey of 1,300 teenagers ages 13 to 17. 73 percent of the respondents (75 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger.

Motherhood Has Become a Cultural Anomaly!

Judie Brown
Mother's Day is Sunday. Traditionally, it is a day to honor and respect all that mothers do and sacrifice for the sake of their children. And while this day is important, special, and necessary, we can't help but wonder what our country would be like if we celebrated mothers every day. If mothers and babies were held in the highest regard, as they should be, each and every day of the year, think about the lives that could be spared. Think about the heartache that would not come about because a mother chose to abort her child. That would truly be a celebration.

Kinsey Consequences: It's Rotten Research-ers

Judith Reisman
Having worked for the US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency under the Reagan administration as Principal Investigator for an $800,000 grant to examine, Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler, I was in a unique position to uncover the problem of rotten research and rotten researchers.

Behold the Lamb of God (Good Friday)

Proclaim Sermons
There's a looking-glass quality to the arrest and mock trial of Jesus, with its "sentence first -- verdict afterward," by the religious and civil authorities in Judea. The arresting party has both authority and the weaponry to put Jesus in custody, but they are blown over like a pack of cards by two little words. There is nothing, however, amusing about the horrifying death inflicted upon Jesus, although -- spoiler alert -- we know in advance that it's more than a matter of life and death -- it's death first, and abundant, eternal life for all of us afterwards.