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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.

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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! What Can ICE Learn from the Byzantine Migration Enforcement?

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?

New! How Did Disagreement Become So Violent?

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.

New! Outcry Grows Over Canada's 100,000 and Counting 'Assistance in Dying'

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.

New! Should We Be Worried About Advanced Agentic AI?

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?

New! Clear and Present Dangers of AI

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.

Legal adventures 2: gay sperm donor hit for child support 13 years later

Michael Cook
A gay man in the UK has been startled to learn that he will have to pay child support for two children he fathered - 13 years after the first child was born.

Champions

Judie Brown
A champion is a warrior, someone who stands for justice and often does so against the world.

Blessings. (Lent 2)

Proclaim Sermons
God calls Abram to a life of potential hardship, rife with risk and hazards. Offering divine blessing acknowledges the difficulty but promises divine companionship.

What Does the Bible Say about Homosexuality?

Brian Clowes
A thick fog of confusion obscures the debate about homosexuality. This is by design; one of the fundamental strategies of the culture of death is to generate uncertainty and misunderstanding so that people will be intimidated into remaining silent. Nowhere does this principle apply more than to what Scripture says about homosexuality.

Fictions and Lies in a Lawless Age

Adam J. MacLeod
The law must stand above the powerful, and we should worry when the law is suspended or disregarded. But where is the law to be found? Most of the law consists of important fictions which live in the minds of lawyers. But what makes the fiction plausible? And how is the law's benefit to be assessed unless we measure it against fixed, non-conventional, non-fictional standards of justice?

Asia: Human Rights Mechanisms need practical actions on domestic institutional developments for administration of justice

Asia Human Rights
In most countries in Asia liberal democracy is replaced with various types of authoritarian governments violating the separation of power principle and favouring executive control of the entire system.

Is the way to eliminate poverty to eliminate motherhood?

Kimberly Ells
To be an "unpaid care worker" - especially if you're a woman - was seen as an afront to human decency at the UN. And because on average women worldwide do more labour in the home than men, people in UN circles call this "gender inequality," "gender injustice," and even "gender-based violence."

Leaked FDA Memo Reveals 10 American Children Died From COVID-19 Injections, Prompting Sweeping Reforms

Kurt Mahlburg
A leaked memo from the US Food and Drug Administration - the powerful regulator overseeing America's medicines and vaccines - confirms ten child deaths linked to COVID shots and exposes major oversight failures.

Portraits of Post-Abortive Fathers Devastated by the Abortion Experience
Thomas W. Strahan, Editor

A.I.R.V.S.C.
Conspicuously absent from most discussions of the abortion issue are considerations of third party interests, especially those of the father. Limited research has suggested that any man who deeply cares is likely to be devastated by the experience. Stories by post-abortive fathers have begun to appear in recent years and they confirm the potentially devastating effects that can occur.This article presents a glimpse into the post-abortion trauma experienced by fathers.

Privatizing Marriage Is Unjust to Children

Jennifer Roback Morse
The primary business of the state is justice. Because children cannot be autonomous, adult society has an obligation in justice to provide institutional structures that protect their most basic interests.