It is sleek, white, and almost elegant: seemingly an object from a 1960s dystopian science-fiction film. “The Sarco” suicide pod—developed by euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke—looks
In his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell wrote, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and
Here we are in August – summer’s crescendo and the month of the Immaculate Heart. Just like time at the beach is good for the
I do not believe that all thinking Democrat people embrace the “party of death” ideology that their party is endorsing, but their leadership continues to
Your life, my life, every life, is precious. Every life lost during the pandemic is a tragedy. We’ve been hearing this from media talking heads
I recently talked to an elderly friend who has been in a nursing home for two years. Her words struck a chord in me: “You’ll
The practices of physician assisted suicide (medical aid in dying) and euthanasia are being increasingly accepted throughout the world. This acceptance is becoming all too
In medicine and in our culture, there is a growing acceptance for what is now being referred to as “medical aid in dying.” The term
We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Human life is
[The] administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act. Its
My mother died on February 26, 2006. She spent most of February in the hospital. When it became clear she was never going home, medical
We Americans are having a bad effect on Canada. Just the other day (January 13), Kristen Pyszczyk of CBC suggested quite nicely that perhaps it
Thomas Hobbes described the state of nature as a war of all against all, in which life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” In
In 1970, if someone in America would have told you that all the laws against abortion in all the states (but two) would be overturned
Death is as common as birth, obviously, but old age homes and palliative care facilities efficiently remove the dying from the public eye. Consequently, most
For years, Catholic Answers has produced a helpful voters’ guide on the five non-negotiable moral issues for Catholics. It is good but in the years
We find ourselves particularly challenged in these modern times by a generally unsuspected set of idols: ideas. We are especially plagued today by our attachments
On April 11, 2015, Pope Francis declared a Jubilee Year of Mercy in Misericordiae vultus. When one thinks of mercy, particularly in the context of our
October is Respect Life month in the United States. It begins a new, year-long cycle of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Respect Life Program.
It’s Holy Week. We commemorate civilization being forever changed. Once upon a time, a cross was a medieval weapon of torture, humiliation and oppression.
Today, so many things that used to be considered evil are now part of the mainstream culture. Let’s take a look at some of these
“On the morning of February 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law against assisted suicide was unconstitutional. Canada now joins a
