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Anthony McCarthy
What Siegfried Sassoon still teaches us about war and conscience
As Britain’s military leadership calls for national mobilisation in the face of new threats, the experience of the First World War offers a sobering reminder of how easily moral certainty can harden into moral blindness
Britain is losing all sense of healthcare ethics
Medical ethics is not some optional extra which Catholics can just leave to others. It touches on issues which radically affect our attitudes to the human person, parenthood and sexuality
“No-parent babies”: mitochondrial replacement and the birth of human clones
British scientists create babies from three embryos, ignoring concerns over embryo destruction, cloning ethics, and disturbing implications for parenthood.
Is surrogacy the UK Parliament’s latest revolutionary goal?
in revolutionary times, it is instructive to examine the penal codes that revolutionary regimes produce. in 1920, following the russian revo...
When the taking of innocent lives is ignored, others are in danger
in the memorable first transformation scene depicted in robert louis stephenson’s the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde , doctor j...
'Controlling desire': the Ozempic weight-loss craze and its effect on contraception
last week, the guardian’s curiously-titled health and inequalities correspondent reported that the medicines and healthcare products regulat...
Castration and human dignity: 'Doctors are not agents of social control'
last week, lord chancellor shabana mahmood told parliament that the independent sentencing review, “has recommended we continue a pilot of s...
Once again our Pope wrestles with 'Americanism' and the 'subversion of primary truths'
“there is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the roman catholic church." so ...
Judgement and identity: how we lost our grip on nature, liberty and the human person
judgement early in dostoyevsky’s masterpiece the devils, a meeting of “incredibly vain” and well-lubricated “new men” is recalled: “they tal...
The media applauds womb transplants despite its deconstruction of maternity
last week, surgeons in england hailed the “astonishing” medical breakthrough by which a 36-year-old woman became the first in this country t...
'Ordo Amoris' according to JD Vance and Pope Francis
what is the ordo amoris and why should we care about it? just over a week ago, pope francis, in a letter to us bishops, wrote the following:...
INTERVIEW: Hon. Robert Clark on the misleading evidence at the committee stage of assisted suicide bill
for the past three weeks, kim leadbeater's terminally ill adults (end of life) bill, which seeks to legalise assisted suicide in england and...
Sentimentality, politics and BBC’s The Traitors
oscar wilde once scolded his friend lord alfred douglas for his sentimentality, writing that: “a sentimentalist is simply one who desi...
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