Latest from the College of Psychiatrists

Abortion does not improve mental health when compared to giving birth in unwanted pregnancy.
Yet 98% of UK abortions are on grounds of improving mental health.
This last statement presumably is no longer evidence based medicine?

The malignant Dr Kinsey

When he died, a Catholic paper praised him for his dedication and zeal. We now know that he was zealous in the promotion of perversion and this includes the idea that paedophilia may not be harmful.
One may wonder how many seminaries accepted the claims of this troubled soul and at what cost.

Poor Old Augustine

St Augustine gets a bad press when it comes to sexuality. In fact he defended the goodness of marriage and procreation against the Manichaeans. He also said especially in De Bono Conjugali that sexual pleasure is by no means sinful in itself. But, against the Pelagians, he said that there is such a thing as concupiscence which is not the same thing as sexual attraction. Rather it is the thing that leads us to selfishness, fornication and adultery.

A case against assisted suicide

To be found on the Dignity in Dying website. Especially under what the patrons say. When Professor Grayling talks of exhaustive old age, he is clearly not talking about terminal illness.

Catholic Medical Quarterly

Articles are available at www.cmq.org.uk

Cloyne Again

The fundamental problem was that the bishop and the Vicar General chose to ignore the Irish proposals. Another problem was that the proposals were sent to Rome as if they were study guidelines. Either way, the problems were in Ireland.

The curse of pornography

A Canadian bishop who apparently dealt well with the sex abuse crisis in his diocese has been caught with child pornography. What makes a "good" person, like this bishop or Fr Kit Cunningham, do something so wicked? Most pornography addicts tend to compartmentalise their lives. Some addicts get bored of "soft porn" and a relatively small number move on to illegal material. Others are only attracted by illegal material. In either case, we may conclude that pornography addiction is damaging and dangerous.