What is a Person and Why is Abortion Murder?

What is a person?   1) Basic personal attributes include reason, free will, and self-consciousness. 2) Human beings are living organisms that possess these three superbiological powers. 3) These capacities can be rendered inoperative in humans by two conditions: disability or immaturity. – Disability (disease, deformity, etc.) can hinder operation of these personal powers permanently. […]... Read More
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What and Why?

What and Why? By PAUL MURANO, published in Valley Patriot on September 5, 2021. Babies illustrate for us what it means to be fundamentally human. Anthropologists tell us that the first word a baby speaks, ‘mama’, is based on the mother representing food. It’s the sound they make with their mouth when wanting milk. It’s related to the […]... Read More
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Why do we call it the “passion” of Christ?

Today, on Passion Sunday, its reasonable to reflect on why we call Jesus’ suffering and death the “passion” of the Christ, when the word today is used to mean intense emotion for something or someone. Both meanings come from the Latin root ‘pati’, meaning to endure or undergo hardship. In ancient times this word was […]... Read More

Truth and Justice or Mercy and Compassion?

x – Truth and justice are paramount. y – No, mercy and compassion are more important. x – Mercy and compassion are meaningless without truth and justice! y – But truth and justice are incomplete without mercy and compassion! z – Gentlemen, gentlemen, stop arguing. You’re both right. Truth without love is shrill, and love […]... Read More