Healing the Culture: A Pro-Life Philosophy
Father Spitzer gives a lecture on how Roe vs Wade is a direct attack on Personhood and Agape, and concludes that every being of human origin is deserving of protection under the law.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, PART 2
12/18/2002
Father Spitzer answers questions from his studio audience on the Life Principles, giving concrete applications in particular situations.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, PART 1
Fr. Spitzer deals with questions and answers that pertain to the previous episodes and for clarification.
EUTHANASIA, PART 2
Fr. Spitzer explains discusses why a serious illness is not a reason for euthanasia and the actual value in human suffering. Part 2.
EUTHANASIA, PART 1
Fr. Spitzer discusses the issue of euthanasia and its consequences.
THE EFFECTS OF ABORTION ON OUR CULTURE
Fr. Spitzer discusses how the Roe vs. Wade decision has impacted our culture and how returning to a message of agape love is needed to heal the wounds of abortion.
RIGHTS AND THE COMMON GOOD, PART 2
Father Spitzer talks about how common good and rights cannot be separated or else it leads to the tyranny of the majority.
RIGHTS AND THE COMMON GOOD, PART 1
Father Spitzer shows how a right is an obligation due to a person because of their intrinsic dignity, and those right are inalienable
PERSONHOOD, PART 2
Father Spitzer defines the nature of personhood, and shows how all persons admit to transcendental dignity.
PERSONHOOD, PART 1
Father Spitzer talks about what it is that gives a person intrinsic rights and intrinsic dignity, and how we must assume that it is present in ALL stages of human life.
FREEDOM AND ETHICS, PART 2
Father Spitzer shows how you must have inviolable principles to stive for virtue, but in order to strive for virtue your end must be Love.
FREEDOM AND ETHICS, PART 1
Father Spitzer proves that how we view happiness affects how we view freedom and ethics.
SUFFERING, PART 2
Father Spitzer describes how suffering leads people to move beyond themselves.
SUFFERING, PART 1
Father Spitzer talks about how moments of suffering can be the most poignant and meaningful moments of our lives.
AGAPE - LOVE
Father Spitzer talks about the four loves and how we can make
HAPPINESS, PART 2
Father Spitzer shares a trick that makes people see how you cannot truly be happy with Instant Gratification and Personal Achievement, but only through good beyond self and Ultimate Good (which is God).
HAPPINESS, PART 1
Father Spitzer talks about what true happiness is, and how this idea is key to healing the culture
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CULTURE SINCE ROE V. WADE? PART 2
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CULTURE SINCE ROE V. WADE? PART 1
Father Spitzer talks about how the right to life is absolutely necessary for the rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By attacking the right to life, the rights to freedom and the pursuit of happiness were also jeopardized.