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Matthew Nelson is the author of Just Whatever: How to Help the Spiritually Indifferent Find Beliefs that Really Matter (Catholic Answers, 2018) and editor of The New Apologetics (Word on Fire Institute, 2022). He is a practicing chiropractor, and teaches Catholic anthropology at the St. Therese Institute of Faith and Mission in Bruno, SK, Canada.
Analysis

The use of human “bodyoids”: An alarming proposal

May 31, 2025 Matthew Nelson 16

Many of us know someone—and perhaps that “someone” is you—whose life depended on an organ transplant. Many also know how challenging it can be to procure a needed organ and receive it in time for […]

Essay

What it Means to be a Body: A Philosophical Primer

March 31, 2025 Matthew Nelson 6

Gender-altering surgeries. Abortion on demand. “Swingers Break”, offering spring breakers “a personal paradise where you can explore and enjoy all your hedonistic desires” (yes, all one’s hedonistic desires). Pope John Paul II warned us that by abandoning […]

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Good timing, in light of today’s feature article on Day, from the good Dr. Peters: The causa of Servant of God Dorothy Day (1897-1980) occasions many questions for ecclesiastical leadership, some of them canonical.  I […]

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