Category: Ethics

A surgeon may need to remove a cancerous tumor by cutting it from the body, but there’s nothing violent about surgery. It’s the tumor that causes violence.

The Compassionate Choice of Auschwitz: How Abortion Has Horribly Disfigured the Democratic Party

by Kevin Burke | Jun 6, 2019 | Ethics, Politics | 2 |

During the heated debate in the Alabama state legislature over House Bill 314 that would protect...

Green Puritans

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Featured, Science | 1 |

The planet exists for humanity, not humanity for the planet.

Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Finger-Pointing Does Not Convict

by Carl C. Curtis | Oct 1, 2018 | Ethics, Featured, Politics | 0 |

My suggestion to my friends was that she was not credible so much as she was deemed sincere.

Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill To Get a Hit On Opioids

by Brother Mark Dohle | Jul 19, 2018 | America, Ethics, Featured | 7 |

A good portion of the population seems out to take money from whomever they can lie, trick, or manipulate.

Is Surrogacy a Violation of Human Rights?

by Marjorie Murphy Campbell | Apr 27, 2018 | Books, Ethics, Family, Featured | 0 |

Surrogacy is highly lucrative only for the professionals, not the women indentured as surrogates who tend to come from much lower economic circumstances and most often need money.

The Origin of Personhood

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 25, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, Marriage, Science | 0 |

Supporters of abortion make one assertion for which they will be easily prosecuted and condemned: that human personhood begins at birth.

The Power of Work — My Man Godfrey, Sir William, and Fyodor

by Carl C. Curtis | Mar 22, 2018 | America, Culture, Ethics | 1 |

Too many people—especially young men—don’t work or want to work today, but they must learn that work is the pith and marrow of daily living.

Can Culture Be Whatever?

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Manners | 0 |

Real culture does not incite the curiosity of the guilty, but the wonder of the innocent.

Culture Wars and the Tube: Homosexuality as Happy Ending

by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 15, 2017 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, TV/Radio | 5 |

Our entertainment media too often depict one shining oasis of love and happiness: the homosexual union.

Please Consider the Morality of Your Memes

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Aug 17, 2017 | 2016 Election, America, Ethics, Featured, Media, Politics | 0 |

The reason that memes came into existence is that we have become so bombarded with words from advertisements to propaganda that we need to filter the cacophony to garner the gold dust from the sand.

Project Joseph: A Rachel’s Vineyard Offers a New Program for Men Wounded by Abortion

by Kevin Burke | Jul 28, 2017 | Ethics, Family, Featured, Marriage, Social Teaching | 0 |

But Eileen Kuhlmann also learned of the unique suffering of men as fathers and considered the benefit of continued healing after the retreat in a group specially designed for fathers of aborted children.