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El Greco, "The Laocoön" (crop)

The Human Figure in Art: Watch Now!

Issue Two / 2022

Humanum is delighted to offer a video recording of our first in-person event, a presentation by Dr. Sarah Bond on "The Human Figure in Art," to all of our readers. Click here to enjoy it in its entirety.

The presentation took place on April 14, 2023 at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C.

We thank all who attended and helped make it a success!



Posted on April 28, 2023

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Photograph sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

The Child in the Womb Depicts the Essence of Human Existence

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

In the radicalization of the individualistic tendency of the Enlightenment, abortion appears as a right of freedom: the woman must be able to take charge of herself. She must have the freedom to decide whether she will bring a child into the world or rid herself of it. She must have the power to make decisions about her own life, and no one else can—so we are told—impose from the outside any ultimately binding norm. What is at stake is the right to self-determination. But is it really the case that the woman who aborts is making a decision about her own life?

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"The Devil in Britain and America," 1896. Sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

The Metaphysics of Murder

Daniel Moody

That anti-abortionists and pro-abortionists talk past each other is no secret. Conflicting anthropologies stemming from conflicting cosmologies ensure one dictionary but two languages. Less out in the open but becoming clearer by the day is that we can sort anti-abortionists themselves into two competing camps.

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Restoring Not Rebuilding Notre Dame

Patrick Keating

April 15, 2019 marked a pivotal event in the history of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris when a blazing fire burnt down its roof, spire, and caused intense damage throughout the structure. The destruction created a lively debate in academic, professional, and civic circles about the nature of the reconstruction. Would the Cathedral simply be rebuilt or redesigned?

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