Catholic Medical Quarterly Volume 75(3)  August 2025

Contents - August 2025

Submitting articles to the CMQ

Welcoming Pope Leo XIV and our new President

Editorials

Dr Pravin Thevathasan
Biology Matters
The Summer of Shame

Decriminalizing abortion
Dr Adrian Treloar

Killing is wrong - but Assisted Dying Bill passes its second reading
Dr Adrian Treloar

The Culture of Death and the Failure of Catechesis
From the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family

Submissions

CMA Submissions on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Dr Mike Delaney

Submission on Assisted Dying from Bios Centre
Fr Patrick Pullicino

Lejeune Clinic for Children with Down Syndrome
Rev Dr Michael Jarmulowicz

Papers

Same sex attracted adolescents at the Tavistock need support not transitioning
Fr James McTavish

Science and Vatican II
Fr Patrick Pullicino

Study

Suicide risk increases with loneliness and depression
Alex Schadenburg

Canadian study proves that the ‘suicide contagion’ effect exists
Alex Schadenburg

Papers

Was the break-up of the Catholic Church in England in the 16th Century caused by Syphilis
Dr Michael Straiton

Book Reviews

The Sanctified Body
Patricia Treece

Anxiety- A Catholic Guide to Freedom from Worry and Fear
Art Bennett, Laraine Bennett & Lianna Bennett Haidar

Transgenderism, A Question of Identity
Francis Etheredge

Lady Mabel’s Gold
Simon Caldwell

Correspondence

Motorisation & Christians
Antony Porter

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