CNA—The Catholic Church is clear in its teaching on when life begins: at conception. On death— described as “the end of man’s earthly pilgrimage”— the Church teaches in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that “life is changed, not ended;” that death represents the moment of “the separation of the soul from the body.” While…
BioEdge—Daniele Macchini, a doctor at the Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, damned complacency about coronavirus in a lengthy post on Facebook. “The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all its drama. One after the other the departments…
The following article, published in The Guardian and authored by Phillip Ball, is jaw-droppingly horrific in terms of how far we’ve strayed from the natural law, let alone God’s law, when it comes to bringing new human life into the world. What Catholics and most of the rest of the world once commonly referred to…
