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About time! Australian doctors to investigate transgender treatments for kids

08/19/2019 at 5:19 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Government is backing an inquiry into the controversial issue By Michael Cook | Aug 19 2019 |  It’s about time. A national inquiry into the safety and ethics of transgender medicine in Australia will be conducted by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians with the backing of... read more

At fertility clinics, abandoned human embryos could number in the millions

08/17/2019 at 4:59 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Jonah McKeown Denver, Colo., Aug 13, 2019 / 07:00 pm (CNA).- The number of “abandoned” human embryos in the United States could number in the millions, and many fertility specialists are reticent to discuss the dilemma of what to do with frozen embryos, according to a recent NBC News... read more

Famed Yale computer science professor quits believing Darwin’s theories

08/07/2019 at 4:42 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
JENNIFER KABBANY - FIX EDITOR •JULY 30, 2019 ‘The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain’ David Gelernter, a famed Yale University professor, has publicly renounced his belief in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, calling it a “beautiful idea” that has been... read more

The Shroud of Turin: Latest Study Deepens Mystery

08/07/2019 at 4:37 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Researchers cast doubt on the findings of the controversial 1988 study. By K.V. Turley, August 5, 2019 A new French-Italian study on the Shroud of Turin throws doubt on what many thought was the definitive dating of the cloth believed by millions to be the burial cloth of Jesus... read more

‘Puberty is not a disease’: Italian council moves to ban gender-bending drugs for kids

07/24/2019 at 2:50 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Martin M. Barillas TRIESTE, Italy, July 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The regional council of Friuli Venezia Giulia, an autonomous region in northeastern Italy, approved a motion calling on the national government to prohibit so-called puberty-blocking drugs used in so-called reassignment... read more

Lord Monckton corrects Pope Francis on climate

07/23/2019 at 10:43 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Monckton: "The totalitarians got the science wrong. They made a strikingly elementary error of physics. They forgot the Sun was shining. So they misallocated the feedback response to the Sun, erroneously counting it as part of the feedback response to greenhouse gases. Their predictions should... read more

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE MEETING PROMOTED BY THE DICASTERY FOR THE SERVICE OF THE INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

06/15/2019 at 4:47 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE MEETING PROMOTED BY THE DICASTERY FOR THE SERVICE OF THE INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ON THE THEME: ENERGY TRANSITION AND CARE OF OUR COMMON HOUSE Casina Pio IV, Friday, June 14, 2019 Eminence, Distinguished Managers, Investors... read more

It’s Time to Promote Good Social Science on Same-Sex Parenting

05/21/2019 at 9:46 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Paul Sullins, May 12, 2019 Social scientists who conduct research on the politically charged question of the wellbeing of children in the care of same-sex parents have emphatically asserted unqualified and universal support for the finding of “no differences.” In his... read more

Why you should say no to being an organ-donor

05/10/2019 at 10:03 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Father David Nix, 2019-04-18   Although I am a Catholic priest, I am also an ex-paramedic and I graduated pre-health from Boston College. I am writing this blog post “Why you should say no to organ donation on your driver’s license” as a former paramedic, not as a priest. In other... read more

IS THERE MORAL CERTAINTY THAT “BRAIN DEAD” ORGAN DONORS ARE DEAD?

05/01/2019 at 3:16 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Julie Grimstad, President, Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization (HALO) The "dead donor rule" – a person must be dead before their vital organs are extracted for transplantation – is the basic principle guiding organ donation. A dead body is a corpse. Excising vital organs from... read more

The inconvenient truth about vaccines

04/07/2019 at 3:50 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
by Stefani Williams, Renew America, April 4, 2019 "Skepticism is the first step towards truth," Denis Diderot, 1746. Has our government ever been wrong? Has it ever been deceptive? The answer of course, to anyone who knows our history, is yes! Here are a few examples: Forced sterilization... read more

Marijuana and Psychosis

04/03/2019 at 9:52 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

It Is Never Necessary to Intentionally Kill a Fetal Human Being to Save a Woman’s Life: In Support of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

02/18/2019 at 3:15 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence

02/16/2019 at 9:58 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Despite contrary claims, study finds marijuana more dangerous to teens than alcohol

01/29/2019 at 10:27 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Written in our chromosomes; anchored in our bodies

01/25/2019 at 3:11 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

See the Live Action abortion videos YouTube is trying to bury

01/05/2019 at 10:45 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

That Feeling When Scientists Say Sodom and Gomorrha Were Destroyed by Fire From the Sky

12/15/2018 at 4:19 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Coitus, But Not Other Kinds of Sexual Activity, Promotes Health

11/12/2018 at 5:31 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Are the wheels falling off the transgender juggernaut?

11/09/2018 at 7:38 PM By Mary Anne Hackett