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“The institutional conscience of a Catholic health care service is rooted in its identity as a ministry and formed by the authoritative teaching of the Church.” ― Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 7th Edition William Hume is a 79-year-old retired golfer from Edmonton, Alberta. In the summer of 2025, he was…
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide are expanding worldwide — from Canada’s MAID program to proposed laws in the UK and France. In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet breaks down the alarming global trends, including: As countries debate “safeguards,” we examine why guardrails never actually work — and why the Catholic Church teaches that euthanasia and assisted…
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Isadora Borges is a 34-year-old veterinary student from Paraíba, Brazil. She is not a politician, a lobbyist, or the leader of any protest movement. She is simply a young woman who, in November 2020, posted two comments on X stating what the vast majority of human beings have always understood: that a person born male…
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Arrested for handing out pro-life pamphlets? That’s exactly what happened to Canadian activist Alex Kissiakov. In this episode, Alex Kissiakov joins us to discuss his experience being arrested and charged with criminal harassment and mischief after peacefully offering pro-life literature outside an abortion clinic in Montreal. Despite police initially saying no crime had been committed,…
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Stem cell ethics emphasize the importance of preserving and protecting human life from the moment of creation until natural death, and it firmly opposes any research that results in the destruction of human embryos. This aligns with Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life. Stem cells – special cells that are found in nearly…
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Mass shootings in Canada are extremely rare. Thus, it was with a sense of horrified disbelief that Canadians received the news that an active shooter had invaded a school in the small community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, last week. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), police first received an alert about an…
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Fr. Shenan Boquet joins us to unpack a cultural debate sparked by comments from New York City’s mayor about replacing “rugged individualism” with “collectivism.” Are these really the only two options? In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet explores how Catholic social teaching offers a powerful alternative to both radical individualism and collectivist ideology. Father also…
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The amount of positive news that I have had the pleasure of reporting to you in recent months is quite astonishing. It is giving me hope. Last week, I told you about how pro-euthanasia and assisted suicide measures are stalling in several nations in Europe, as opponents are raising significant concerns about how such laws…
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For more than 50 years, the United States government has used foreign aid as a tool to export population control policies across the globe—often pressuring nations to abandon their own cultural and moral values. Is that era finally coming to an end? In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet discussed the United States’ newly announced America…
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Supreme Court Upholds Parental Rights in Landmark Decision
This week, the Supreme Court reaffirmed one of the most important truths about education—parents, not the state, are the primary educators of their children. In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet breaks down the implications of the landmark Supreme Court case Mirabelli v. Bonta, which challenged a California policy allowing students to socially transition at school…
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