WHOLE LIFE ARTICLES

A Nation with the Soul of a Church

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House Human Rights Committee Considers Christian Genocide in Sudan

George McGraw

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DigDeep right to water project celebrates birth of Southern Sudan with launch of its new website, fundraising campaign.

George McGraw

DigDeep – a “whole life” apostolate that advances the human right to water – is celebrating the recent Independence of Southern Sudan with the launch of its new website and fundraising campaign for clean water projects in the country. View Article

Pushing a Dangerous Anti-Human Exceptionalism “Undignified Bioethics”

Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke

Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith responds to an article which argues that human beings do not have intrinsic value (dignity) simply by virtue of their humanity--that our worth is based rather on our "moral status" i.e. how intelligently we encounter each other and the world.
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AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right

Edward C. Green and Allison Herling Ruark

Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions. Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named “ten myths” that impede prevention efforts—including “Poverty and discrimination are the problem,” “Condoms are the answer,” and “Sexual behavior will not change.” Yet such myths are held as self-evident truths by many in the AIDS establishment. And they result in efforts that are at best ineffective and at worst harmful, while the AIDS epidemic continues to spread and exact a devastating toll in human lives.
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Stem Cells for Dummies

E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., Culture of Life Foundation

Ever wondered what the difference is between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells? Here's an easily broken down accessible answer.
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Contraception and Chastity

Elizabeth Anscombe

Roman Catholic thinker Elizabeth Anscombe relfects on the theological implications of contraception and chastity. Writing as a Roman Catholic, Anscombe offers a penetrating moral analysis of marriage and sexuality that will benefit any reader who rejects the secularist reduction of marriage as merely a union that sanctions sexual activity between partners.
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The Gospel of Life

Pope John Paull II

Pope John Paul II's famous encyclical on the dignity of human life.
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The Apple Argument Against Abortion

Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft delivers a Socratic argument against abortion.
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A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty

Avery Cardinal Dulles

Avery Cardinal Dulles discusses the death penalty as a theologian, "While sociological and legal questions inevitably impinge upon any such reflection, I am here addressing the subject as a theologian. At this level the question has to be answered primarily in terms of revelation, as it comes to us through Scripture and tradition, interpreted with the guidance of the ecclesiastical magisterium. Any authentic Christian judgment must be informed by this teaching." View Article