My Sister Had a Miscarriage and No Burial Was Done for the Child. What Can We Do?
My sincere condolences to your sister and all your family. Losing a child before birth brings a unique kind of grief, and both medical professionals…
Is Eviction From the Womb Analogous to Letting A Terminal Patient Die Naturally?
Q: Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote what may be the most famous paper in bioethics, “A Moral Defense of Abortion.” She compares abortion to unplugging someone…
At mass some time ago, my parish had a special ceremony to send people to the Rite of Election. What is that and who is it for?
The ceremony you saw was one of the rites associated with the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). This is a process of catechetical…
Can You Lie to Help Someone?
Consider that according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “To lie is to speak or act against the truth in order to lead into…