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 |  | What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? Brianna Heldt
What is it to be authentically female, to embrace the role of mother (or is there a role to begin with?), and does biology have anything whatsoever to do with what a woman—single or married—ought to do? Both sides—on the one, progressive militant feminists and, on the other, conservative religious traditionalists—miss the forest for the trees. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | What Alone Teaches Us About Living in Accord with Nature Kody W. Cooper
The History Channel's reality show Alone unveils ethical and theological truths. While modern artifice and techne have often disrupted an integral relationship between man and nature, man and man, and man and God, it is natural to live in community with others and, indeed, with the kingdom of heaven. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Despite Appearances, IVF is NOT Pro-Life Dr. Richard DeClue
Given that IVF is used to help women who have had difficulty conceiving a child get pregnant, many are under the impression that it is a pro-life procedure. If IVF leads to more babies being born, then why would IVF not be seen as a good thing? Certain acts are intrinsically evil, and the procedures involved in IVF involve a series of intrinsically evil actions. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | As I Leave for the Second Session of the Synod Bishop Robert Barron
During the second session of the Synod on Synodality, we seek to explore how we make our understanding of the Church concrete in terms of institutions and practices. There are a few themes in this year's preparatory document, but what emerges with particular clarity is that the first and most important listening we undertake is not to one another but to the Holy Spirit. (Léelo en español aquí.)
| | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Do You Have an Immortal Soul? Dr. Christopher Kaczor
In his new book, Edward Feser offers an important philosophical contribution to the discussion of life after death. Not limiting himself to only addressing the issue of the immortality of the soul, Feser offers a tour de force of some of the most important questions about human beings. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | No Machine Should Choose: Defending Human Dignity in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
Dr. Steven Umbrello
AI-driven technologies, often called "lethal autonomous weapons," have emerged as a prominent and controversial feature on today's battlefields. The rapid integration of these autonomous weapons into active conflict scenarios has raised ethical, legal, and humanitarian concerns. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Pope Francis Isn't Actually Visiting Peripheries—He's Leaving Them Behind John Allen, Jr.
Pope Francis recently undertook a twelve-day outing to the "peripheries" of the world: Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and Singapore. In a sense, this papal trip is also a journey from the Church's past to its future, from what was once the cradle of Christendom to its new home in the "two-thirds world." This demographic transition has implications across the board, including for the enterprise of evangelization. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Johnny Cash and the Man in White Matthew Malone
In a moment of divine revelation in the darkness of Nickajack Cave, God reordered and reoriented Johnny Cash's mind, body, and soul to him. It was this spiritual turning point that became the lightning rod for Cash to embark on his lifelong commitment to God and redemption. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Stop Killing Your Babies! Mark Bradford
Even in our culture that is so obsessed with death, this just isn't one of those things that we should have to say. We use science to search out and justify our destruction of what we decide is undesirable and don't want to parent. This is called eugenics, right? The new eugenics shows no concern to preserve the life of the child who is considered inferior.
| | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Escape Is Not Escapism Dr. Holly Ordway
Is it wrong to immerse ourselves in stories and delight in adventures that could never happen? Does it confuse our moral sense? Is the experience offered by fantasy and science fiction really just "escapism," a kind of moral and emotional truancy? Actually, the reader who escapes into a good story may well return to "real life" changed for the better. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Life in a Concentration Can Mark Bradford
I'm sure we can confidently say this topic impacts many naïve and well-intentioned Catholic couples who, facing the heartbreak of infertility and unaware of IVF's moral dangers, may be enticed into using it. What happens to those little humans, and what is their moral and legal status? | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | What Is Modernism? Dr. Richard DeClue
Radical traditionalists can be quick to accuse those they do not like of being modernists. However, it is sometimes used imprecisely as an overarching pejorative meant to shut down conversation. What is modernism and how can we discern when the term is being used appropriately or fallaciously? Specifically, what is the heresy of modernism condemned by the Church? | | READ ARTICLE | | |
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