Category Archives: Human Life

Published on
11 November 2020

We Must Stop Confusing Political and Moral Issues

Posted in British Politics, Ethics, Human Life, Morality in Public, Public Policy, Social Commentary

It seems every political issue has come increasingly to resemble a moral ‘rumble in the jungle’. The latest issue to fall victim to moral pugilists is the Free School Meals initiative pressed by footballer Marcus Rashford. During the first lockdown Rashford petitioned the government to offer ‘free school meals’ to Britain’s most disadvantaged children – […]

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Published on
24 October 2020

A Recent Contrived Controversy

Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conscience, Ethics, Human Life, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy, Morality in Public, Same-Sex Marriage

Recent comments made by Pope Francis about same-sex unions have raised quite a stir. In a new documentary ‘Francesco’, about the present Pontiff’s life, Pope Francis says, ‘homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be […]

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Published on
5 March 2020

The Art of Friendship

Posted in Big Society, Education, Human Life, Philosophy, Social Commentary, Virtue

Facebook has given new meaning to the saying, ‘Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit’. Social media has brought with it great benefits, but one of the biggest problems associated by many with them is that there seems to have come about post hoc if not propter hoc a diminution in understanding of […]

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Published on
21 June 2016

Jo Cox and a Kinder Politics

Posted in British Politics, Conscience, Culture, Human Life

On Thursday 16 June 2016, Jo Cox – a 41-year-old Labour MP, committed activist and, above all, dedicated wife and mother of two children aged 3 and 5 – was murdered in her Yorkshire constituency. The Thomas More Institute wishes to offer sincere condolences to her family and loved ones. It is difficult here not […]

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Published on
9 June 2016

Is There Such a Thing as Speciesism?

Posted in Ethics Online, Human Life, Morality in Public, Philosophy, United States of America

The recent killing of a gorilla at a zoo in Cincinnati has provoked a wildly disproportionate social-media reaction. In some widely viewed footage of the occurrence, a four-year-old boy falls into the gorilla’s enclosure and is subsequently grabbed and dragged through water by the animal. Alarmed by understandably loud shouting from the boy’s mother and […]

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Published on
21 August 2015

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Guide to the Evidence

Posted in Assisted Suicide, Culture, Euthanasia, Human Life, Human Rights, Moral Philosophy, Morality in Public

The Anscombe Bioethics Centre has recently published a collection of resources to help people better engage with debates in Britain relating to Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS), titled Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Guide to the Evidence, and we warmly recommend it to all thinking persons. The Thomas More Institute shares with the Anscombe Bioethics Centre […]

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