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Palliative medicine and its ethical commitment to care for people
Palliative Care is the ethical commitment of a society that is sensitive to the suffering of its citizens. When medicine has failed to prevent or cure a disease, the physician must commit to caring for and supporting the person suffering from the disease in order to alleviate their suffering. It is then that we must adopt an ethical perspective on ? Mifepristone in emergency contraception: a new threat to the embryo
A recent meta-analysis evaluates the efficacy of low-dose mifepristone as an emergency contraceptive compared to other interventions. Beyond its effectiveness in reducing pregnancy rates, its mechanism of action and ability to interfere with endometrial receptivity has reignited the debate surrounding its bioethical implications and the information women receive about its possible effects. Men Can't Make a Mother's Milk
As both a mother and a perinatal nurse with extensive training in breast feeding and lactation, I find myself nauseous over the headlines I am reading regarding the assertions from an NHS Trust that milk produced through drug-induced lactation by men is just as advantageous for infants as milk from women or mothers. Men Breastfeeding?
It is well established that breastfeeding is beneficial to both infants and mothers and that breastmilk (from a woman) is the gold standard form of nutrition for babies. Two buses, an apartment block - Ukraine's civilians suffer under Russian assault
As Russia steps up its wave of deadly attacks in Ukraine, civilians are increasingly paying the price. According to the UN, Ukraine saw more civilians killed by August this year than in all of 2025. Thursday saw another such attack: in the eastern front-line city of Kramatorsk, a Russian glide bomb assault on two buses killed at least 30 people. This comes a day after a five-storey block of flats in Pryluky, east of Kyiv, was hit, killing 22 people in the early hours. "Once again, the Russians have struck a location where there are absolutely no military targets," Kramatorsk's city council said. Congressman Slams Abortion: "Babies Deserve Better Than to be Flushed Down the Toilet"
As you know, pregnancy care centers are on the front lines of providing compassionate care to mothers and their precious children--offering free support and resources, which can range from pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to parental education programs and lactation consultations, and much more. Transgender is a Symptom
"Since trans is really a symptom, the goal should never be automatic affirmation, nor should it be to dismiss the person as mentally ill. The goal should be understanding the individual beneath the identity. We should be asking difficult questions about what needs are going unmet and why the transgender identity became so appealing in the first place. "Transgender identification is the visible expression of deeper struggles. If we truly want to help people, we must look beyond the label, beyond the ideology, and beyond the symptom itself. Then, the real sources of distress can be understood, addressed, and resolved." - Pamela Garfield-Jaeger Canada backs off on euthanasia for mental illness, but targets people with dementia.
Some are celebrating Canada's government "indefinitely suspending" legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great victory for life. Not me. No, Parents Shouldn't Be Browbeaten into 'Affirming' Their Gender-Dysphoric Children
Rarely does a single journal article capture the full range of intellectual errors committed by pediatric 'gender' activists. A June 2026 'clinical perspective' in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry comes very close. A mere glance at Michal J. McDowell et al.'s 'Using a Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy Model to Join Caregivers of Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth' is enough to alert the reader that he or she is in strange territory indeed. Children Bring Higher Meaning and Purpose to Life
Conventional wisdom holds that children bring a special kind of existential purpose into the lives of their parents. A Pew survey of 17 countries found that 'family and children' was by far the most commonly selected source of meaning in life, and a survey of Greeks found that 87% of parents marked 'giving meaning to life' as an advantage of having children. More Headlines…
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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 Antonio Lemos
To what extent can migration be legitimately regulated and enforced, and under what circumstances may migrants already residing within a country be returned to their place of origin? James Macpherson
Without a moral authority above ourselves, we risk turning our political convictions into absolute truths -- and our opponents into obstacles to be destroyed. Dan Hart
A grandmother's disputed death has put Canada's euthanasia regime under fresh scrutiny, as the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program passes 100,000 deaths with a further expansion slated for 2027. Thomas D. Howes
The effort by all the major AI frontier companies to get government assistance in regulating the technology strikes a familiar note. There have always been incentives for top companies in an industry to call for regulations that give them a competitive advantage over upstart companies. Regulatory capture, as it is called, is a real concern. But is that what is going on here? Charles T. Rubin
It is genuinely difficult to know how to begin to navigate all of this chatter and adopt a more thoughtful stance on the issues facing us. But Sherry Turkle's latest book is a good place to begin.
Judie Brown
The president of the United States and members of his team consistently claim that he is a devout Catholic. But anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of Catholic teaching on abortion knows this is a lie. One cannot be pro killing babies and, at the same time, claim to be Catholic. Proclaim Sermons
When Jesus gives the keys of the kingdom to Peter, and by extension to the church, Jesus entrusts the church with the ministry of participating in the redeeming work that God has done and is doing in all creation. This promise sustains us in rough times, and encourages us when we see the fruit of our ministry. Proclaim Sermons
The "I Am" statements in the Gospel of John define who Jesus is. In this passage John the Baptist, a witness to the light, defines himself with a series of "I Am Not" statements. These should lead us to consider who we are and who we are not, and help us become better witnesses to the light. Elizabeth Wickham
The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain management must be properly titrated to avoid overdose.
Xavier Symons
Many believe in euthanasia for the terminally ill. But why not legalize it for those suffering from an untreatable mental illness? Nancy Valko
The answer is that God is where He always has been when we grieve and suffer: with us and even carrying us through the roughest times, as the famous "Footprints in the Sand" poem depicts. But what does that really mean? Richard J. Fehring
Researchers from the Netherlands recently conducted a study to help explain age-related loss of fertility by comparing menstrual cycle parameters from a group of healthy "relatively" young women with cycle parameters from a group of older women.
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Memories of Pope John Paul II John and Evelyn Billings
The Natural Law is inherent in true NFP, and therefore it is for everybody, whatever their circumstances or their starting point. We must not be selective or exclusive of those we teach, but teach everybody - teaching them how to teach with love. This is the inspiration of John Paul II. We owe this fidelity to this teaching David C. Reardon
The church understands. Do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. God will forgive you. Judie Brown
In a culture with so many shades of gray and with people caring mainly for themselves and looking out for their own interests, is it any wonder that most people are able to accept the slaughter of preborn babies in at least some cases? When will people wake up and realize that this death sentence imposed upon preborn babies is a sickening act that will lead to the downfall of morals within our society?
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