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A Toxic Synergy: Digital Addiction, Gambling, Porn, and the Complicated Grief after Abortion – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A Toxic Synergy: Digital Addiction, Gambling, Porn, and the Complicated Grief after Abortion

American Heritage Is No Myth, It’s The Source Of Our Liberty And Peace, by John Daniel Davidson

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Photo by Meizhi Lang on Unsplash

By Kevin & Theresa Burke, Catholic Exchange, 23 Oct 2025

Author’s Note: Kevin Burke, MSS, and Theresa Burke, Ph.D., are the founders of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries. Theresa is the author of Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion and Kevin, Tears of the Fisherman, Recovery for Men Wounded by Abortion.

Synergy: The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects

One of the appeals of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is the unique talent of the private detective to see beyond the apparent facts of a crime. He discovers and tests what look like unrelated threads from a criminal event that, in the end, prove essential to the resolution of the case.

There is a similar dynamic at work when examining the unrelated threads of the digital tech revolution, the explosion in online gambling and pornography addiction, and complicated grief after abortion.

We are living in an age of fast-paced digital evolution. In the Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma, some of the leading players in Silicon Valley sounded an alarm about the very products they helped design and disseminate. …

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A Toxic Synergy: Digital Addiction, Gambling, Porn, and the Complicated Grief after Abortion

American Heritage Is No Myth, It’s The Source Of Our Liberty And Peace, by John Daniel Davidson

Room for Islam at the Vatican — No Room for Tradition, by Mark Lambert

By Kevin & Theresa Burke, Catholic Exchange, 23 Oct 2025

One of the appeals of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is the unique talent of the private detective to see beyond the apparent facts of a crime. He discovers and tests what look like unrelated threads from a criminal event that, in the end, prove essential to the resolution of the case.

There is a similar dynamic at work when examining the unrelated threads of the digital tech revolution, the explosion in online gambling and pornography addiction, and complicated grief after abortion.

We are living in an age of fast-paced digital evolution. In the Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma, some of the leading players in Silicon Valley sounded an alarm about the very products they helped design and disseminate. …

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