David Mills

C. S. Lewis fans will want to know about the New York C. S. Lewis Society . The group meets the second Friday of every month in the parish house of an Episcopal church on West 11th Street in Manhattan, and publish a bi-monthly bulletin , which usually features a substantial essay on Lewis. I went . . . . Continue Reading »

Some of you will want to know about a new journal being produced by graduate students at the University of Dallas’s Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts. Ramify is published annually, and the editions for 2010 and 2011 are out. The articles, written by Dallas professors, graduate students, . . . . Continue Reading »

For those interested in alternative political thinking, the “Red Tory” writer Philip Blond will be speaking at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on Friday at 4:00. To register for his talk on “The Broken Society vs. the Big Society,” click . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you in the part of the country where Eastern Catholicism is mostly to be found (New Jersey and Maryland straight across to Michigan, for the most part), a concert series you will want to know about: The seminary choir from the Blessed Paul Gojdich Seminary in Presov, . . . . Continue Reading »

A report on an encouraging conference — attended by Leroy Huizenga, author of several recent “On the Square” articles — held by the Catholic bishops’ doctrine committee for young (untenured) Catholic theologians: Young Theologians Encouraged to Confront ‘The . . . . Continue Reading »

A new group to flag for interested readers. In the past, writes Jennifer Miller and Marie Catherine-Letendre of Bioethics International in Trust and Ethics in Health Care , it wasn’t uncommon for established experts to conduct their federally funded studies with disadvantaged people. For . . . . Continue Reading »

Dr. John C. Cutler was a monster. A monster who died after a long and successful life in government and academia, with scholarships and lectures created in his memory. As readers may know, in the mid-1940s he experimented upon poor Guatemalans, including mental patients and orphans as young as nine, trying to find a cure for syphilis. The most horrifying example, already much posted on the web (I quoted it on “First Thoughts” a few days ago), is “that of a mental patient named Berta.” … Continue Reading »

The item Joe posted earlier today, ” Who Decides Who’s a Catholic? ” reminded me of something I wrote just a few years ago on the same subject — journalistic definitions —  a few years ago. Here it is, for those who are interested: Another sad story of  people . . . . Continue Reading »

A blog with but a single entry, but it’s a very useful one: Early Christians on Abortion . He begins, as vexed as many of us were at the time, with Nancy Pelosi’s making a hash, a pro-choice hash, of Christian teaching on Meet the Press . . . . . Continue Reading »

You can still find stories that make your blood run cold. Like  Panel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests from Tuesday’s New York Times , which reported that in the late 1940s American scientists conducted Nazi-style experiments, with a Nazi-style coldness, on poor Guatemalans. . . . . Continue Reading »