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Kresta in the Afternoon – April 5, 2024 – Hour 2

Guest Host Marcus Peter and Wes Smith discuss new developments in assisted suicide laws, and Michael Dauphinais examines what Aquinas has to say about Divine Mercy and Divine Justice. 

 

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

Proposed legislation in California would make assisted suicide available to patients with ‘early and mid-stage dementia,’ while dropping a required waiting period. Wes Smith joins us with more.

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Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

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California Plans to Kill Terminal-Illness Requirement for Assisted Suicide

Wesley J. Smith Smith is the Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He’s the author of 13 books including “Culture of Death: The age of Do-Harm Medicine.” Follow him on Twitter @thewesleyjsmith and check out his articles at National Review, First Things and more.

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Divine Mercy or Divine Justice?

This weekend is Divine Mercy Sunday. We believe in a God who is all-Merciful, but is also perfectly Just. Do these qualities contradict each other? Michael Dauphinais is our guest.

Michael A. Dauphinais, Ph.D., serves as the Fr. Matthew Lamb Professor of Catholic Theology and the co-director of the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida. He recently launched a new podcast The Catholic Theology Show to help a wide audience discover the richness of coming to know and love God as he has revealed himself in Jesus Christ. He enjoys teaching C.S. Lewis, the Bible, and anything on Aquinas. He speaks frequently in both academic and popular settings to serve the New Evangelization. A grateful revert to the Catholic Church, he has been married to his beloved wife Nancy for almost thirty years. His newly co-authored book Wisdom from the Word: Biblical Answers to Ten Questions about Catholicism was published by Word on Fire Press. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous scholarly articles and books in the areas of Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, and the renewal of Catholic theology.

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