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Love You Forever Author Prepares to Die by Euthanasia 

  Canada’s foray into state-sanctioned euthanasia serves as a powerful case study into how quickly society abandons morality and ethical norms when the law fails to enforce them. It’s also a reminder of the humility necessary to embrace the beauty of life.  Medical...
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The “Right” Way to Have a Baby

  The following article was first published by The Dispatch on Sept. 13, 2025. You can read the original here.   Rebecca Smith (a pseudonym) wanted to give a family “the same love I found in becoming a mom,” so she became a surrogate. But when baby Leon died...
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  Home Alone, the 1990 John Hughes blockbuster, has become a perennial Christmas favorite. Other American “Christmas movies” of post-modern vintage, for example Die Hard (1988) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), apart from a surface-smattering of tinsel and...
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  [This column originally appeared in the February 1989 issue of catholic eye, and was also included in the book of collected Canavan pieces for catholic eye,  Pins in the Liberal Balloon.] ____________________________________________________________ Cardinal Ratzinger has...
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