- Male contraception tested on monkeys headed for human use?
- Gay 'marriage' headed to Supreme Court?
- Homosexual militancy and the new civility
- 'The Giver' focuses on a fading culture of life
- Pope Francis greets paralyzed man who risked all to see him
- Embracing disability with open arms
Men
could be using long-lasting birth control - which doesn’t involve
condoms - within the next three years, according to a not-for-profit
organisation.
|
 The Supreme Court has formally added gay "marriage" cases to the justices' agenda for their closed-door conference on Sept. 29. |
 In
recent years, society has brought social and legislative approval to
all types of sexual relationships that used to be considered “sinful.”
Since the biblical vision of what it means to be human tells us that not
every friendship or love can be expressed in sexual relations, the
church’s teaching on these issues is now evidence of intolerance for
what the civil law upholds and even imposes. What was once a request to
live and let live has now become a demand for approval. |
 The
twentieth century witnessed quite a few of them: Mao’s China, Stalin’s
Soviet Union, Hitler’s Third Reich, Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Indeed, there
are echoes of all of these social arrangements in The Giver’s version of
utopia, but I think what The Giver’s city most readily calls to mind is
modern liberalism, especially in its European incarnation. We find the
fierce enforcement of politically correct speech, the manic attempt to
control the environment, coldly modernist architecture, the prizing of
equality as the supreme value, the rampant use of drugs, the denial of
death, and the wanton exercise of both euthanasia and abortion. |
 A
man paralyzed from the neck down made his way to Pope Francis' general
audience, saying he took the massively risky move because he wanted to
experience for himself the pontiff's uniqueness. |
 "But
the “throwaway culture” often manifests itself in much subtler ways.
Most of us do not consciously reject people with disabilities. The days
when people with disabilities were openly mocked are mostly behind us.
But many of us feel awkward or embarrassed to be in their presence. We
do not know how to act and are afraid of doing or saying the wrong
thing, so we do and say nothing at all." |
