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Euthanasia of the mentally ill in the Netherlands is increasing
As the West lunges toward propagating a right to be made dead, the deleterious societal impacts of being legally "MAIDed" (killed by "medical assistance in dying") are becoming increasingly clear. A recent professional analysis published in the Psychiatric Times illustrates the lethal influence on mentally ill suicidal people -- including youth -- in the Netherlands. A Pediatrician's Warning: Puberty Blockers Aren't Curing Gender Dysphoria. They're Manufacturing It.
From Dr. Julia Mason: "Those activists are mistaken. The drugs do have lasting effects, and there's little credible evidence that puberty blockers actually help patients. In fact, there is growing reason to believe they are exacerbating the very dysphoria they are supposed to resolve and placing vulnerable children on a largely self-reinforcing path toward permanent transitions, often with serious and lasting physical consequences." Death Is Not The End
If it is 'certain that we shall not be here for long,' as Blaise Pascal says, 'and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,' then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else. 'All the Lonely People': Loneliness Is Exacerbated by Childlessness
The problem of loneliness among older people has not disappeared. In fact, it is growing and likely to continue to increase in the U.S. and other industrialized countries in the future. For example, a 2025 AARP poll found that loneliness affected 40% of those ages 45 and over in the U.S., up five points from 35% in both 2010 and 2018. Poll Shows 76% of Americans Want Abortions Banned or Limited
Today Pew Research released the results of a new poll on public attitudes on sanctity of life issues. This poll, which surveyed over 8,500 people in late January, contains some good news for pro-lifers. America's Dating Crisis Is Dire, But Here's How We Can Reverse It
It's hardly a secret that dating is a mess today. Young adults are not happy with the state of things, and it's certainly not producing the social goods that matter most: marriage and babies. Marriage and fertility rates have dropped by more than half in the last several decades. Society cannot continue without these, and neither happens unless boy meets girl. This is why the dating crisis matters. "Dr. Death" Creates "Suicide Pods" for Couple to Kill Themselves Together
What is being marketed as innovation is, in reality, a modernized gas chamber. U.N. panel member implores Japan to address gender equality
Hiroko Akizuki, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, called on Japan to create dedicated parliamentary and government bodies to confront the country's entrenched gender inequality. Immigration, enforcement, and Catholics
We can only do what is possible. We cannot solve global poverty, war, and tyranny by moving the poor and oppressed to rich and peaceful countries. Parents Can't Be 'Assigned At Birth' Any More Than Sex Can
The phrase 'sex assigned at birth' was dreamed up to suggest that biological sex (male or female, determined at fertilization and encoded in chromosones) is not an objective reality but a label slapped on a baby by a doctor in a delivery room. As if maleness and femaleness were within the purview and authority of adults to decide. As if the biology was negotiable. Most people now recognize this for what it is: a denial of biological reality." More Headlines…
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Worthy? Who decides? When hospitals, media, and policy accept ending or withholding life for the vulnerable, I see how we begin to treat some people as less than fully human - problems to manage rather than neighbors to love. In this article I ask who judges a life's value and move from institutions to the everyday moments where dignity is made or denied: a hurried bedside conversation, a refused invitation, a steady presence. Drawing on my Catholic faith, Scripture, and stories of the elderly, disabled, and marginalized, I examine how assumptions about usefulness erode worth and offer practical compassion - listening, shared meals, sacramental care - that restores dignity and says, "You matter."
Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog... Ethical Perspectives Lou Ella Hickman
Pro-life values demand that we protect all human beings from the moment of creation until death. That protection includes preborn babies, those who are sick or disabled, and the elderly. But we also have a responsibility to protect those who have been taken from their homes and sold into human sex trafficking, which treats people like commodities while it abuses and enslaves them. David C. Reardon
The Unwanted Abortion Studies are an ongoing investigation of the relationship between different pregnancy outcomes (including induced abortion, miscarriage, delivery of an unplanned pregnancy, and delivery of a wanted pregnancy) and associated psychological distress, decision satisfaction, and suicide risk.[1-5] Currently, the implemented studies have been based on national random samples of American females aged 41-45. This older age group was chosen to capture the bulk of most women's reproductive lives. Michael D. Pfeifer
According to reputable sources today, there are more abortions now than before Roe v. Wade, at least 1.1 million every year. Many assumed that, following the Dobbs decision, abortion rates would drop; instead, the opposite has occurred. Sadly, more than 60% of those deaths are caused by abortion drugs sent through the mail with little to no medical oversight. Our home, which should be the sanctuary for the caring and protection of children, is now, with the easy availability of abortion pills, the major center for abortion. John Stonestreet
It's essential for Christians to think like Christians about anything, including current world affairs. Shenan J. Boquet
The truth that life is a precious gift from God has profound implications for the question of stewardship over human life. We are not the owners of our lives and, hence, do not have absolute power over life. ... Suicide and euthanasia are never morally acceptable options.
Marcus Roberts
The country is shrinking and ageing Douglas McManaman
Years ago I was reading parts of Nelson Mandela's autobiography in which he makes the interesting observation that a shepherd (or shepherdess) leads his (her) sheep from the back. This image was his model of leadership. John Stonestreet
Recently in The Atlantic, Maggie Mertens declared that "separating sports by sex doesn't make sense." As long as equality means sameness and exceptions disprove created norms, we can expect headlines to only become more and more absurd, reflecting even more creative mental gymnastics. John Stonestreet
In the end, wokeness is built on a worldview without salvation and offers an eschatology with no real hope. Though the proclaimed goal is to end oppression, it's what the late sociologist Philip Rieff called a "deathwork," dedicated to tearing down things but unable to build, or offer, anything better.
Margaret Somerville
It is an outrage that patients in developing countries often cannot get relief for extreme pain. Proclaim Sermons
The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) strongly believes that junk food is dangerous to one's health. You don't need to be a foodie, the agency says, but you shouldn't be a junkie either. But in today's scripture reading, Jesus seems to disagree. He has a radical theory about what truly makes us sick.
John Stonestreet
Bruce Jenner, Transgenderism and the Church
Nathanael Blake
An ordinance passed in St. Louis, Missouri, prohibits discrimination in housing or employment on the basis of "reproductive health decisions." Promoted as an anti-discrimination measure, the law's actual purpose is to destroy the self-government of religious and pro-life organizations. John Stonestreet
In the wake of the collapse of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, American and Israeli warplanes conducted airstrikes against targets in Syria. Specifically, they went after existing military infrastructure and influential Islamist groups there. The tactical strategy was not mere opportunism. Shenan J. Boquet
A few weeks ago, we learned of a terrible - but, in many ways, sadly predictable - twist in a recent incident involving a "transgender" individual. You might remember that a couple months ago, a video began circulating of a deeply upset woman at a spa in Los Angeles, complaining to staff that a man had exposed himself in the women's area of the spa. The woman also claimed that the man was visibly sexually aroused.
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