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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ~ Viktor Frankl, Jewish Holocaust survivor When Viktor Frankl arrived at the Nazi prison camp, he immediately promised himself that he wouldn’t ‘run into the wire’, a term for the [...]

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, Philosopher Part 1: Why Nations Fail This article is an abbreviated version of Chapter 14 of How We Are Amazingly Made, by Jerry Bergman, Graham McLennan and Tom Rogers, with thanks [...]

There are some great resources out there to help the church understand and to develop a response to contentious social issues that are impacting young lives. On the touchy issues around sexuality and gender, it appears the horse has truly bolted, us older generations have [...]

They are Champions! Swimming USA is picking the brains of Australian swimming coach, Craig Tobin, to improve the American Down syndrome swimming program. Russell Booysen, Ashley-Kate Schlenner and Michael Cox of the Australian Down syndrome Swimming Team. Why is this? Australia has won [...]

On China now allowing three children per family, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “In terms of falling fertility, China has probably passed the point of no return. But it should still end all controls on family size. Government has no business [...]

Euthanasia laws are sweeping across Australia and much of the West. This so-called 'right to die' is now asserted as a natural human right with passionate zeal. It's framed as an individual's independent decision about their own life (and death). To this end, gut-wrenching stories [...]

Seen as a Living Death Dementia is a progressive terminal illness which affects thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday tasks. It is caused by a wide range of physical diseases of the brain including Alzheimer’s. Most people with dementia are older, but dementia [...]

Munganbana Norman Miller, Convenor of the Voice of First Nations Peoples Against Euthanasia, said from Cairns today that “All lives matter and Black Lives Matter.” He said, “Because the Queensland government will be introducing Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation into parliament this week, we have to [...]

Commenting on the news that Sexual Revolutionaries are bragging about getting LifeSiteNews banned by Facebook, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “Now we know who decides on Facebook’s ‘community standards’: the National Abortion Rights Action League, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and [...]

Not a Blob With each new discovery, modern science continues to astound us with the sublime complexity and beauty of human life. And so the modern-day claim that a newly-conceived unborn baby is merely a ‘ball of cells’ or a ‘patch of foetal tissue’ or [...]

Vogue calls childbearing “environmental vandalism”. Gates and Biden agree. Last week, the left’s war on procreation was headline news. In the April 29th British edition of Vogue, Nell Frizzell wrote a paean to population control: “Is Having a Child Pure Environmental Terrorism?” -- a shameless [...]

Following the announcement of Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “Divorce is always tragic for children, even older children such as the three Gates children. The Ruth Institute offers sympathy and condolences to the Gates children for [...]

This week, the non-profit Centre for Medical Progress (CMP) released a video report exposing the trafficking of aborted babies by the University of Pittsburg and Planned Parenthood, and their use of fetal tissue in barbaric lab experiments. One of the most astonishing revelations in the [...]

“Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is typical of the Biden administration, which will push the Sexual Revolution at every opportunity,” Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said. Blinken repudiated the work of the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights established by former Secretary of [...]

The Ruth Institute presented a dozen white roses to Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, for his bold defense of Catholic doctrine. “As head of the U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Committee, Naumann has courageously called out ‘pro-choice’ Catholic politicians,” Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback [...]

The first little piggy built his house of straw. I got into a conversation with a young man in a coffee shop today. I was drinking my coffee while mulling over the topic of nihilism for this article. I wanted a young man’s view­ -- [...]

Reverend William Kosko is a voice in the desert, in more than one sense. Parish priest at Saint Henry in Buckeye, Arizona, he recently delivered a heart-rending homily on the sanctity of human life that has since gone viral. Rev. Kosko begins his homily with [...]

A speech by Don Feder to the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum’s Virtual Life Symposium, at the Catholic University of East Africa in Nairobi, March 23, 2021. Ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to once again address an event sponsored by the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum [...]

New Zealand law now views an unborn child depending on whether or not it is wanted. How else to interpret the latest example of progressivist schizophrenia from our cousins across the ditch? Just one year after legalising abortion laws to permit the killing of babies [...]

When all hope is lost and you are at the end of your rope, whom do you call? Until recently, you could call Eric Trezise (1930-2021), friend of the friendless and hope for the hopeless. Sadly, Eric passed from this life to the next recently, [...]