Monthly Archives: October 2009

Climate Change – 2

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Quentin

In my first column on climate change I discussed what responsibilities it might impose on us as Christians. The latest assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 2007, claimed that there was a 90 per cent probability … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholic Herald columns, Church and Society, Climate Change | 12 Comments

Do you know how to die?

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Quentin

A week ago my old friend Thaïs Downman died. She had suffered for several years from an extremely painful cancer of the spine. Although she had bouts of depression during her illness, she had a great love of life. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Quentin queries, Spirituality | 4 Comments

Going along with the crowd

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Quentin

It has been known for a long time that we are strongly influenced to conform to the group to which we belong. Early experiments showed that, even in a small group, an individual will abandon his natural, and – as … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholic Herald columns, Moral judgment | 16 Comments

A warning from Werther

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Quentin

The sad story of two, psychologically vulnerable, teenage girls jumping together to their deaths off a bridge near Glasgow has touched everyone. But I fear that worse may be to come. We are all aware that teenagers frequently go through … Continue reading →

Posted in Bio-ethics, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Climate Change – 1

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Quentin

When a member of Second Sight blog asked me to write about climate change my first reaction was that it was an enormously important question for Catholics to consider. The second was that I knew little about the subject other … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholic Herald columns, Church and Society, Climate Change | 19 Comments