“No one has survived this cancer. This illness will take you,” said Doctor Walter Chang to Audrey Toguchi in 1997 since, scientifically, there was nothing that could be done for her. (…)
Terminal cancer
In 1996, Audrey Toguchi, native of the Island of Oahu in Hawaii, was 69. “I had no idea I had cancer,” she told [...]

This is the title of an article by Sandro Magister (of www.chiesa), well worth reading.
In his homily at the opening Mass for the synod of bishops dedicated to the Sacred Scriptures, Benedict XVI recalled that from the first proclamation of the Gospel, “Christian communities arose that at first were flourishing, but later disappeared and are [...]

Dear Adventus reader,
I could not help but notice that many of you feel somewhat befuddled by the financial crisis that is going on.
You are not alone, of course. Reading other internet blogs, for example, I can sense the rising tide of confusion and anger.
As for myself, before I went into the priesthood I got [...]

Despite the many evils that circulate on the Internet, I firmly believe that it can also be a powerful tool for good. The Kiva website is an example of what I mean.
Kiva is an example of micro-financial lending, in which participants like you and me don’t *give* money so much as *lend* it to [...]

The big headline across the new lately is the dramatic rise in global food prices. This issue touches me in a special way, because in college I once did a paper studying starvation economics, i.e. how “standard” economics changes when food availability reaches critical levels. It isn’t pretty, and experience shows that one [...]

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa recently made quite a stir when he stated that, in certain situations, he might be compelled to refuse communion to Catholic politicians who fail to uphold Catholic moral teaching in the exercise of their functions (in particular, in the question of abortion). In addition to print media commentary on [...]

The following is a true story according to Urban Legend debunking site Snopes.com . It’s a bit dated, but in the context of Quebec’s current debate on reasonable accomodations, it is significant :
“This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee by [...]

Pro-lifers (including myself obviously) often ask “what’s the difference between killing a baby when it’s in the womb and killing it when it isn’t?”.
The Onion has the answer. Of course, the article is a satire. But the truth is that many people do see the in-womb fetus as some sort of sub-human, alien life form [...]

“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love” – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

This text is the first draft of a set of course notes I gave to my THEO 201 students, on the relationship between social structure (particularly law and government) and Christian theology.