Humanum

Humanum is the quarterly review of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC. Focused on issues relating to family, culture, and science.

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Issue Three of our yearly theme on Life is now live, where we reflect on what a human life, fully alive, looks like.
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Greta Atkinson reflects on her experience of her father’s death, and the lost experience in modernity of accompanying the dying from the home as a family.
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In “A Birth Unto Hope: Reflections on the Gospel of Life at Death,” Sister Maria of the Trinity draws an insightful connection between the moment of childbirth and the moment of death through accompaniment.
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We offer our readers an excerpt from the 15th century Ars moriendi. Not unlike our brothers and sisters in medieval times, the art of dying well requires cultivation and reflection.
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Amanda Achtman illustrates with clarity the discordance, despair and alienation within a culture's acceptance of legal euthanasia in her article, "Our Lives Are a Marathon of Hope."
A Humanum Feature Article.
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In "The Tragedy of Legal Euthanasia for a Christian," Roberta Bayer explores the false compassion of euthanasia and how it is ultimately dehumanizing.
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Fr. Blake Brittten reflects on the central importance of death and funeral ritual for the human person and, most especially, the Christian, in his "Death and the Church's Funeral Liturgy."
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As Julia Palmieri outlines the problems in the concept of brain death in her "Revising the Concept of Death (Again?)," she argues that death is an event that transcends mere physical dysfunction.
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Erin Kinsella explores what she calls the “staggeringly audacious claim of the Church” that suffering, a privation of the good, is something good, meaningful, and hopeful.
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In “Life, Death, and Immortality in the Anti-Covid Era,” Edward Hadas argues that the desire many governments had to delay death from Covid justified many denials of the fullness of life, as understood in Christianity.
A Humanum Feature Article.
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