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- May 8, 2021
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Scottish priest investigated after threatening to poison dogs
- Apr 22, 2021
A Scottish priest is being investigated by the police after threatening to poison a man’s dogs on a video that was circulated on Reddit.
Saga of Happy the Elephant proof nothing is alien to Catholic concern
- Feb 5, 2021
In a 1979 address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope (now Saint) John Paul II declared, “Nothing human is alien to the Christian.” What Happy’s case demonstrates anew is that in all honesty, John Paul could have stricken the word “human” from that sentence.
Catholic academic argues for ‘multispecies lens’ in moral theology
- Nov 21, 2020
Celia Deane-Drummond is the director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute at Campion Hall at Oxford University. Her latest book is ‘Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens.’
Groups call for end to use of aborted fetal tissue in animal research
- Oct 24, 2019
A collection of pro-life groups Oct. 22 called for an end to the use of aborted fetal tissue in animal research.
In a land of steak and BBQ, Texan combines Catholic faith with veganism
- May 25, 2019
One Catholic is preaching the Gospel of Veganism in an unlikely place: Texas.
Palestinian Catholic, modeling St. Francis, cares for abused animals
- Oct 3, 2018
A woman in the West Bank is caring for abused animals in the Palestinian territory.
Smiles all around as Pope Francis takes the poor to the circus
- Jan 13, 2018
Poor, homeless, refugees, low-income families and a group of prisoners gathered for a night at the circus sponsored by the Vatican.
Confused American jurisprudence on human and non-human life
- Jun 19, 2017
Catholic moral theology considers any substance of a rational and relational nature to be a person. This includes embryos, fetuses, infants, the brain dead, comatose, and the severely mentally ill. It also includes angels and demons. Could it also include apes such as chimpanzees?
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