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Marxism and the Human Person
Who was Karl Marx? For over a hundred years, Karl Marx’s ideas have fueled controversy, conflict, and economic upheaval throughout the world. The 19th-century thinker believed that the strife of history is a result of the conflict between economic classes, and is well-known for proposing a Communist economic system in order to eliminate poverty and […]
Is Breathing a Choice?
Suicide, Robin Cavendish, and the Movie Breathe On a recent return flight to Brussels, I watched a movie that contextualized one of the most difficult questions raised in the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide: if a physician gives the patient a terminal diagnosis, what difference does it make if the patient wishes to end […]
An Ancient Debate: Voluntary Euthanasia in the school of Socrates
Voluntary Euthanasia is Spreading Across Europe As WYA’s North America Journalism Extern in Europe, I came to Belgium to research the societal trends of euthanasia and assisted suicide. It’s trajectory has been swift and the rising numbers alarming. In 2014, the Belgium government made history by becoming the first country in the world to legalize […]
Reflections on communism: Why was there no Nuremberg for communism?
Nazism vs. Communism: What’s the Difference? On October 17th WYAE was present at the conference on ‘Why was there not a Nuremberg for communism?’ hosted by MEP Marek Jurek in the European Parliament. After attending this event, we came up to a conclusion that Nazism was communism’s closest ideological competitor. Ideologies such as Nazism and […]
Meet our New HDC Partner: St. Agnes School!
St. Agnes School, in St. Paul, MN, is WYA’s newest HDC partner. As of January 2018, the school will offer the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) to its students from kindergarten through the eighth grade as part of the school’s more overarching character formation, for a total of 436 students to receive it. Michael Adkins, the […]
Debating Death #5: Meeting End of Life Needs with Palliative Care
Those Suffering at the End of Life need Palliative Care, not Euthanasia In previous articles we have discussed what the social consequences of legalizing euthanasia are and examined why there is no such thing as the “right to die” in international law. Our investigations led us to inevitably conclude that euthanasia is not the adequate […]
Meet our New HDC Partner: Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools!
The Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools have incorporated the World Youth Alliance’s Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) into their character initiatives approach, which seeks “to educate students to lead lives of excellence, virtue and purpose.”[1] El Camino, a faith formation program that partners with Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools, served as an HDC pilot site for […]
Human Dignity Curriculum: An experience in Mexico
On 2014, the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) made it down to Mexico for the testing of a pilot. This was the first HDC pilot to be conducted in Spanish and it was administered by the staff of World Youth Alliance Latin America. HDC was administered to a bilingual school, located in the south of Mexico […]
Consequences of Living in a Post-Truth Society
The recent political and news landscape is cause for serious concern, not necessarily because of the policy decisions of the new administration but more of the way they conduct themselves in press interactions and on the internet. Our new president has been caught repeatedly blatantly lying, and it’s reached a point of public desensitization. In […]