Health & Spirituality

Are the Consequences of Abortion Real?

by Pravin Thevathasan April 5, 2012

That there are psychological consequences to having an abortion have been accepted by many in the pro-life and pro-abortion camps. The psychiatrist Professor Ian Brockington has commented: “Some [post abortion] mothers feel like criminals and brood over the dead foetus.…

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The End of Women

by Carolyn Moynihan April 3, 2012

The death of the American feminist poet Adrienne Rich (pictured) this week has brought many accolades on account of her literary gifts and contribution to the feminist movement over the past 50 years. In her transformation from conventionally married mother…

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The Secret Suicides of Oregon

by Michael Cook April 2, 2012

Oregon’s public health division has released statistics on deaths under its physician-assisted suicide (PAS) legislation. It shows a steady increase in the number of lethal prescriptions and in the number of deaths. In 1998, the first year after PAS was…

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Does Religion Cause Depression?

by Harold G. Koenig, MD March 30, 2012

Based on a joint study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the World Health Organization in 1990, depression was identified as the leading cause of disability in the world (measured by years of life lived with disability)…

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How Love Builds Your Brain

by Carolyn Moynihan March 29, 2012

Okay, here’s something positive about brain research. In fact, this piece from the New York Times Opinionator blog waxes lyrical on the subject, with good reason since it describes the brain’s response to love (and the withdrawal of it) throughout…

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The “War on Women” Began with the “War on Words”

by Jenn Giroux March 28, 2012

Everywhere we look we are seeing accusations that there is a “War on Women”.
Despite what we are being told, the “War on Women” is not some evil plan orchestrated behind closed doors by conservative male politicians and Catholic Church…

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Jesus Wants Gays to Be Happy

by Harold Fickett March 15, 2012

Recently, Piers Morgan interviewed Kirk Cameron, asking what he would tell his teenage son if the boy were to confess he was gay.
Morgan promptly volunteered his own response.  “I would say, ‘That’s great son. Just so long as you…

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Bioethicists Propose Compulsory Morality Via Drugs

by Michael Cook March 12, 2012

Not long ago, Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer, together with a research assistant, Agata Sagan, proposed a “morality pill” in a column in the New York Times. They speculated that moral behaviour is at least in part biochemically determined. So why…

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A Sex Ed Program That Works?

by Louise Kirk March 12, 2012

In 2010 plans were afoot to make sex education compulsory in the UK from the age of five. The policy, strongly supported by the last UK Labour Government, just failed to reach the statute book when a general election was…

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In A Far and Distant Land–CE Exclusive from Saudi Arabia

by Harold G. Koenig, MD February 27, 2012

Editor’s Note: Many of us are rightly concerned about the dangers of radical Islam.  The Church constantly reminds us, though, to be open to the possibility of dialogue wherever it exists.  One of our favorite columnists at Catholic Exchange, Harold…

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