Check out my article at CatholicLane.com this week: Abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, divorce, sexual immorality — the culture of death has many faces. The recent untimely death of the young English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse is a reminder of one of those faces that doesn’t really get discussed a lot in the pro-life movement: drug and alcohol addiction. Not … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Healing the Person
Last week I talked about drug and alcohol addiction and a community that brings life to suffering addicts. Yesterday I discovered an excellent article from Kevin Whelan at Catholic Exchange on how this community demonstrates the healing message inherent is John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible … Read More
From Death to New Life
Abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, divorce, sexual immorality – the culture of death has many faces. One of those faces that doesn’t really get discussed a lot in the pro-life movement is drug/alcohol addiction. Not only does addiction slowly kill the addict (physically, spiritually and emotionally), but sexual immorality is often associated with drug and alcohol abuse, which leads … Read More
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