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Is an animal a person?

ThatöÏÓãÊÓƵapp the central question surrounding the fate of a 48-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo named Happy, a question that has enticed legal, moral and even theological debate.

]]> Canada Sun, 02 May 2021 07:00:00 -0400 Animal welfare and the Church /item/32738-animal-welfare-and-the-church /item/32738-animal-welfare-and-the-church

Since watching a Netflix documentary on veganism five years ago, Fr. Donatello Iocco has never been the same. 

]]> waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Features Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:52:11 -0500 Bob Brehl: Coyote attack a sign of upside down world /opinion/columnists/item/27121-bob-brehl-coyote-attack-a-sign-of-upside-down-world /opinion/columnists/item/27121-bob-brehl-coyote-attack-a-sign-of-upside-down-world

Do you ever wonder if sometimes the world is upside down?

]]> robertbrehl@catholicregister.org (Robert Brehl) Robert Brehl Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:18:24 -0400 What the animals knew at Christmas /features/christmas/item/23885-what-the-animals-knew-at-christmas /features/christmas/item/23885-what-the-animals-knew-at-christmas

You may have wondered, and rightly so, why the ox and the ass appear so often beside the Christ child in various images of the Nativity.

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