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New Study Undercuts Messaging of Transgender Ideologues
Studies claiming that the brains of males who identifies as 'transgender women" appear more anatomically similar to female brains than to other males are methodologically very weak and are not supported by the evidence, says a new, peer-reviewed study.

Canada's MAID Program Has Euthanized Over 100,000 People
Following the death of a beloved grandmother who was killed without her consent through Canada's government-run assisted suicide program, public outcry is building against the 10-year-old scheme that has killed over 100,000 Canadians.

Expert Debunks Claim Abortion Bans Led to Higher 'Suicidality' Among Teen Girls
Teen girls are not more likely to consider suicide just because their state bans abortion, contrary the claims of researchers.

Report: Churchgoing Couples Have Highest Rate of Marital Satisfaction
Fresh research highlights the strong links between active Christian faith, marital happiness, sexual satisfaction, family stability and the formation of future generations.

Called to Be Counter-Cultural
The greatest danger the Church faces is not just hostility from outside, but compromise from within. The Church loses its saltiness not when it is persecuted, but when it becomes indistinguishable from everything around it. Our witness is only credible when our communities actually live what we proclaim: when Christians are known by their love, their honesty, their care for the poor, and their joy.

UCLA Caught Buying Aborted Baby Parts, Altering Paperwork to Hide It
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, "The fetal organ harvesting business murders innocent babies for profit. These public records obtained by the Center for Medical Progress show that the work must continue to expose these heinous acts by these abortionists, harvesters, researchers, universities, and companies. The barbaric slaughter of babies for profit must stop."

The Moral Problem With IVF: Human Beings Aren't Property
In-Vitro Fertilization has created a moral crisis. There are now as many as 1.5 million frozen embryos in the U.S. alone. Many of these will remain frozen or simply tossed out. In the UK alone, an estimated 130,000 embryos have been thrown in the trash since 1991.

Baby Born at 24 Weeks Heads Home After Longest NICU Stay in Hospital History
A baby boy born at 24 weeks and weighing less than 2 pounds has gone home after 334 days in intensive care, the longest neonatal stay in the history of North Memorial Health.

Planned Parenthood Gives Joe Biden Award for Helping It Kill More Babies
Joe Biden is perhaps tied with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as the most pro-abortion presidents in American history.

Hospitals Profited From Harmful Surgeries on Minors
'Catholic teaching is clear: these medical and surgical interventions are immoral and offend human dignity,' Hasson continued. 'This report should move every Catholic to condemn the exploitative practices of the gender industry and recognize the harm done to vulnerable people.'

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"Give Them Something to Eat": The Hungry Children of Asia

Who are the Poor? It is difficult for me to look at a photograph of a hungry child and simply turn the page. Perhaps it is because I have spent so many years working with young people at Kochi University and traveling across Asia to share the pro-life message. When you look into the face of a child who does not have enough to eat, hunger is no longer just a statistic. It has a face. It is a little boy or girl who is hungry today and whose parents may not know where tomorrow's food will come from. How many children worldwide suffer from hunger? The numbers are staggering. According to the latest estimates from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank, 42.8 million children under five... Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! AI, Automation, and the Meaning of Work

Jordan J. Ballor
Abuse is no argument against proper use. But AI's challenges and opportunities are bound up with identifying the scale and scope of proper use as well as the consequences of abuse, and how to distinguish one from another.

Toward an Understanding of Suicide

Ronald Rolheiser
Every year I try to write an article on suicide because it is perhaps the most misunderstood of all deaths and it wreaks a unique havoc among the family and the loved ones left behind.

New! Love My Neighbour - and My Enemy?

Ann Farmer
Today, despite the progressive emphasis on a multiplicity of 'communities', there is less community feeling than ever before. If not for this progressive policy of 'divide and rule', our own times might be just as neighbourly as in the past, when we were encouraged to prize what we had in common rather than dwelling on our differences.

New! The Death Spiral Continues: France Legalizes Euthanasia

Shenan J. Boquet
The new law permits an adult to request death if he or she is a French citizen or stable legal resident, suffers from a serious and incurable illness that is advanced and life-threatening, experiences physical or psychological suffering deemed unbearable or resistant to treatment, and is judged capable of making a free and informed decision.

The Peace in the Storm Project: Ministering to Caregivers and Those Suffering from Chronic Pain and Illness

Lori Hadacek Chaplin
Understanding that both the suffering and their caregivers experience loneliness and isolation, a new Catholic ministry called The Peace in the Storm Project aims to accompany them both to help foster faith, fellowship, and peace. The project, founded in 2023 by Catholic author Maureen Pratt, is available to dioceses, parishes, and individuals.

Death penalty losing support in US

Xavier Symons
As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear evidence on botched executions in Oklahoma, the Pew Research Centre has released revealing new statistics on opinions about the death penalty in the US.

If you are the Son of God
1st Sunday of Lent Cycle C

Douglas McManaman
Christ came to enter into human suffering, to fill it with his light, to make it holy; for he loves us, and every human life will be a life of suffering, some far more than others. The Son of God joins a human nature and enters into human suffering in order to keep us company in our suffering, and there are certain people in this world, special friends of his, whom he invites to keep him company in his suffering.

The Influence Of Therapeutic Culture On Abortion Decisions Of The U.S. Supreme Court
Thomas W. Strahan

A.I.R.V.S.C.
Every culture or society has certain dominant ways of viewing an individual in relationship to that culture or society. How individuals are viewed in relationship to culture or society also may change over a period of time. As a certain way gains ascendancy, it will begin to influence how law is understood and interpreted by the courts.

Fallible Disharmony

Judie Brown
The topic of whether a Catholic can opt to obey certain Church laws but not others has been in and out of the public eye for years. One of the most helpful instructions for Catholics seeking truth comes from Pope Pius X, who issued a decree on frequent reception of Holy Communion.

Gratitude and the Incarnation
First Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

Douglas McManaman
The word “ecstasy” comes from the Greek word ekstasis, which means to “stand outside of”, or to be beside oneself. The more we look outside ourselves in a spirit of thanksgiving, the more joy filled or ecstatic our life becomes. Learning this gratitude is so important, because Christ’s coming in the flesh was ultimately for the sake of restoring gratitude to God.

Three parent babies - but only males

Xavier Symons
The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has recommended that US government allow mitochondrial DNA transfer in male embryos.

The Pill and 50 Years of Misery

Judie Brown
Isn’t it interesting that as the United States of America approaches the 50th anniversary of this nation’s most popular recreational drug, the birth control pill, special interest media is ginning up the presses - or in this case, the web sites - with all sorts of ideas for the next 50 years. A sampling of what America’s birth control worshippers are saying may give one pause to rethink.

Christian Abortion Supporters
Preaching A Gospel of Death

John Stonestreet
Can you claim to be "born-again" when you won't allow others to be born in the first place? Here's how abortion strikes at the heart of the Christian faith.

Austrian historians studying another informed consent debacle from the 50s

Michael Cook
Another informed consent scandal from the 1950s: researchers deliberately infected hospitalised children with malaria.

US Surgeon-General says that America has a loneliness epidemic

Michael Cook
In addition to smoking, type 2 diabetes, obesity, opioids, and alcoholism, the US Surgeon-General, Dr Vivek Murthy, has identified another epidemic of lifestyle disease which is "an urgent public health concern" - loneliness.