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Alone in the Bathtub: Abortion Pills, Informed Consent, and What Medicine Owes Its Patients
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Alone in the Bathtub: Abortion Pills, Informed Consent, and What Medicine Owes Its Patients

Haile McAnally hemorrhaged alone in her apartment after taking abortion pills at a clinic, and woke up in a hospital after a blood transfusion. Her account, and those of more than a dozen women who signed a letter demanding FDA accountability, exposes a concrete failure of informed consent and clinical oversight. Catholic Christian anthropology can name that failure precisely because it refuses to separate the body's suffering from the whole person who suffers it.

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Is the Devil Real? What Psychology Avoided for a Century
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Is the Devil Real? What Psychology Avoided for a Century

In July 2026, a Vatican-affiliated publication generated a theological dispute by examining evil through psychological and cultural lenses while leaving the Church's teaching on Satan's personal existence largely unaddressed. The controversy reopens a question psychology has largely evaded: what happens clinically and pastorally when the tradition's named adversary is dissolved into metaphor? The Catholic framework offers a more complete answer than the discipline has been willing to consider.

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The Child No One Spoke For: Surrogacy, Contract, and the Person Who Cannot Plead

A Canadian lawsuit pitting intended parents against a surrogate who refused to abort their child at 22 weeks exposes a structural problem in commercial surrogacy: the one most directly affected by every decision has no legal standing, no voice, and no name in the proceedings. The case illuminates what happens when a child's existence is subordinated to contractual terms. Catholic Christian anthropology offers a precise account of why that subordination fails on its own terms.

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What forgiveness in marriage actually requires

Forgiveness in marriage is less a feeling than a repeated act of the will — one that moves through anger rather than around it. This piece draws on Catholic theology, marital psychology, and eight decades of Marriage Care pastoral experience to trace what genuine forgiveness demands and what it makes possible.

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Holy Marriage as Apostolate: What the Ulmas and Priscilla and Aquila Reveal

*Two married couples, separated by nineteen centuries, made the same argument with their lives: that spouses are, by the structure of conjugal love itself, apostles to the world beyond their own household. Vatican II's* Apostolicam Actuositatem *made that claim in principle. Their stories make it concrete.*

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The Vein They Could Not Find: Tennessee's Botched Execution and the Limits of Democratic Law

On May 21, Tennessee's medical team spent more than an hour failing to find a vein on death row inmate Tony Carruthers before Governor Bill Lee suspended the execution. Lee's subsequent defense of the unchanged protocol rests on a single claim: capital punishment is 'the law of Tennessee that the people have decided.' Catholic social teaching draws a sharper line between what a democratic majority may legally enact and what it may morally authorize the state to do in its name.

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Nigeria has the military to defeat terrorism. Its government will not use it.

Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Yola says Nigeria's government possesses the military capacity to defeat terrorism and is choosing not to deploy it. The moral question his diagnosis raises is not strategic but about the kind of failure that produces a settled gap between seeing what must be done and refusing to do it.

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Searching for Bliss, Meaning, and the Divine: What Trending Queries Reveal About Spiritual Hunger — June 29, 2026

Reddit's highest-engagement threads this week are cries of spiritual emergency: users asking whether life has inherent meaning, seeking non-bleak frameworks, and reporting bodily alienation and depression. Clinicians should expect presentations of existential vacuum, identity diffusion, and embodied distress clothed in spiritual language. The CCMMP's Created, Rational, and Volitional premises — alongside Augustine's anthropology — offer a native framework for meeting these clients.