Abortion and euthanasia are ideal social causes and ideal business ventures for one very obvious reason: their clients can’t speak out against them, because they’re dead.
There is a difference between trying to escape reality, and a strategic retreat to a place of strong footing, from which a community can build a real culture again.
Bobby Schindler watched his sister, Terri Schiavo, starved to death in 2005 and stresses the importance of understanding the threat of assisted suicide.
It is biblically and historically true that indulged evil and sin cannot last. They carry the seeds of destruction because they are rooted in selfishness.
The American Catholic bishops themselves deserve a goodly part of the blame for a failure to implement a clear Vatican directive 25 years ago that has resulted in many not distinctively Catholic institutions and major rulings against religious freedom.