by admin | Mar 29, 2022 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio Last month, Pope Francis spoke about euthanasia during his general audience, saying that the sick and dying need compassionate care, not euthanasia. He stated: “The right to care and treatment for all must always be prioritized, so that the weakest,...
by admin | Jan 13, 2021 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio Today is the feast day of St. Hilary of Poitiers. Hilary was born a pagan in the early 4th century. But through his studies and his reading of the Bible, he realized that Catholicism made sense, and he felt called to convert. A few years after he...
by admin | Feb 6, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Catherine Daub A year and a half ago, my 80-year-old father underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured aortic abdominal aneurysm where he had a less than 6% chance of survival. We all breathed a sigh of relief when he beat the odds and made it through surgery, but...
by admin | Jul 29, 2019 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio We know it can be extremely difficult to talk to teenagers about difficult topics like abortion, suicide, euthanasia, or other sensitive issues. We often have parents, educators, and youth ministers tell us that they want to have meaningful...
by Mary | May 21, 2018 | CLSP Blog, CLSP Blog Divi
When we think of the culture of death, we picture evils like abortion, contraception, and euthanasia. Rarely do we consider the consequences of the culture of death—the epidemic of loneliness. A recent study reported that just over 40 percent of Americans feel left...