Is the Culture of Death Committing Suicide?
From Iceland to the wider West, falling birthrates and the elimination of the ‘unfit’ reveal a civilization undermining its own future.
From Iceland to the wider West, falling birthrates and the elimination of the ‘unfit’ reveal a civilization undermining its own future.
COMMENTARY: Welsh Archbishop John Murphy knew that the secular world places its hope on career, comfort and cash. Life, when it does not fit into these factors, is deemed expendable.
COMMENTARY: When abstractions become daughters, arguments become conversations — and the Church’s defense of life is heard more clearly.
Oregon was the first state in the nation to legalize assisted suicide.
EDITORIAL: Experts stress that those who seek to end their lives this way generally do so because they feel abandoned by other human beings, not because of their illnesses.
How could a court reach such a decision? How could doctors decide that this child’s life was not worth saving?
As with the resurrection of Jesus, the devil got something he wasn’t bargaining for.
The USCCB reiterates the Church’s preference for burial of the deceased and stating that newer methods do not show respect for the human body.
How does one describe such a culture of death? It’s a puzzlement.
The French philosopher who won the Ratzinger Prize in 2012 discusses the legacy of St. John Paul II on the occasion of the opening of a new cultural institute bearing his name in Rome.
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