Pope John Paul II

For more than three decades, Americans have been deeply polarized over the issue of abortion. While the debate on abortion involves secularists as well as people of every religious tradition, the issue has become particularly acute among Christians because of strong views on both sides. Generally, the debate has been cast in terms of “pro-life” views and “pro-choice” views, but it is clearly a much more complex issue for Christians. The legality of abortion was confirmed in 1973 when the United…

community of hope. The way prophets are able teach people about a community of hope is by emphasizing that those who live in poverty and are outcasts should never be forgotten because their suffering are reminiscent to the dark side of history. As said by John F. Haught in his book, What Is Religion: An Introduction, “Societies that exclude certain groups for the sake of homogeneity would lose their vitality, and so the prophets forbade such narrowing of social consciousness” (70). This is one…

is the ghost and what is its importance to the play and to Hamlet. The Question, Answer, Question format grabs the audience’s attention and the play begins. Narrative tension is further revealed in the Question, Answer, Question format in Act I Scene II when Claudius, the late king of Denmark’s brother and now king, marries Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and queen. The coronation and…

Cavanaugh addresses such topics as free market economy, consumerism, globalization, and economic scarcity. The point of this book is not only to point out what is wrong with certain economic practices of today but also to recommend a Christian alternative. Cavanaugh aims to share a Christian perspective that uses Christian resources for the purpose of living out a different vision of economic life based on the Gospel. Cavanaugh uses the Eucharist, the church catholic, the writings of Augustine,…

Pope Francis caused a spike in the debate over female ordination last year when he reconfirmed that females will most likely never be ordained as priests in the Catholic Church. He cited St. John Paul II to briefly explain why women were banned from ordination. However, Francis continued by saying, “I ask myself: who is most important in theology and in the mystic of the Church: the apostles or Mary on the day of Pentecost? It's Mary! ...the Church is a woman! It's "la Chiesa" (in Italian), not…

Within our lifetime, the average human could be said to ask existentialist questions regarding their own existence and purpose; these thoughts can naturally progress towards the questioning of life itself from the perspective of God. Why create several billions of people to live on an Earth that is filled with so much corruption, panic, and evil? Christian Anthropology can be thought of as a way to explain the human condition from a theological perspective. Although one does not need to be…

Human Genetic Engineering: A Hero Discovery or a Society Divider? In 1997, the film Gattaca was created, which showed the public a futuristic idea of humans being able to edit and modify human genes to create “valid” humans as well as “invalids”. Today, this futuristic idea from 19 years ago has become a not so out of reach reality for society today. Human genetic engineering is the process of either adding improved DNA or deleting sections of a person’s DNA and then adding more efficient DNA in…

Organ Sales Legalized Rhetorical Analysis for "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" It does not make sense for people to die unnecessarily if there is a way to easily save their lives. Author of "Organ Sales Will Save Lives", Joanna Mackay seems to agree. In her essay, she argues that the government should regulate organ sales, rather than ban them. In "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" Mackay uses facts and statistics to reveal shocking numbers to the audience, revealing how lengthy the waitlist for…

Every day animals all over the world are unwillingly and harshly treated as experimental objects, to be used for unnecessary scientific cosmetic testing. Across the country, about 26 million animals every year are used in and as experiments. They are used to figure out the toxicity of medications, discover and develop medical treatments, participate in food and chemical tests, and, most especially, make sure certain products for humans, such as cosmetics and other personal care products, are…

For consequentialist the ends can justify the means but for me they may be vindicated under certain circumstances, but otherwise they do not. In the following discussion I shall use the two moral dilemmas, Euthanasia and Animal Testing, to support my claim. Euthanasia, also known as assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide (dying), doctor-assisted dying (suicide), and more loosely termed mercy killing, means to take a deliberate action with the express intention of ending a life to relieve…