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Extract 1: Bishop von Galen’s euthanasia sermon
On 3rd August 1941 in St. Lambert’s church Bishop Clemens August accused the Nazi regime of murdering mentally handicapped persons. He…
Read MoreExtract 1: Bishop Clemens von Galen
In 1941 Catholic Bishop Clemens von Galen risked death in his demand for justice for the German people seized by the…
Read MoreExtract 5: Aquinas on free will, rights and justice
In this short article the relationship between natural law, reason and the virtue of justice (a key virtue of the will,…
Read MoreExtract 7 The Case against war
The Peace Pledge Union gives a powerful case against war; “War, like a disease, can in time be eradicated; and that’s…
Read MoreExtract 6:Should we kill tyrants?
In this article from the Independent April 1st 2011 Geoffrey Robertson QC argues it is morally right to kill tyrants like…
Read MoreExtract 1: The negative golden rule
A New Morality, Part 2: The Negative Golden Rule Here is an extract from the Happy Iconoclast website (click here). It…
Read MoreExtract 6: Gaia and Natural Selection
Here is Tim lenton’s conclusion to his article in Nature which James Lovelock describes as a “seminal article” (The revenge of…
Read MoreExtract 11: Richard Dawkins on the lust to be nice
Richard Dawkins argues for an evolved natural law of niceness or altruism, an instinct like the sex drive which evokes compassion…
Read MoreExtract 5: Pope Benedict on dictatorship of relativism
Benedict XVI just before his election as Pope (April 2005), spoke of the “dictatorship of relativism”. How many winds of doctrine…
Read MoreExtract 3: Lawrence of Arabia
This extract recounts Lawrence’s experience during the Arab revolt against Turkish occupation in Palestine in 1916. Lawrence had been sent to…
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