Dollars to donuts that Compassion and Choices brought this story to the reporter: Apparently a pancreatic cancer patient wanted assisted suicide and couldn’t find a doctor to do the deed. (Note how the story reporter, Laura Kate Zaichkin, blatantly employs the usual pro-assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
Nathan Diament, the director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has called the tension between gay rights and religious liberty “the mega-cultural issue of the decade.” That may well be an understatement, so it’s nice to see that the problem is . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Fr. Jenkins has finally decided to respond to his critics . It is a very lawyerly response, involving a careful parsing of the words of the statement of the U.S. Bishops conference entitled “Catholics in Political Life.” Jenkins asserts that he and the others who made decision to . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what headlines across the nation are screaming today, after a new study was released alleging that having a baby “accelerates the deterioration” of “marital quality over time.” Sure. If by “marital quality” one means selfishness, self-centeredness, . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn T. Stanton, director of family formation studies at Focus on the Family, writes in: Doesn’t it always happen like this? Here we are, getting ready for our big week, reflecting on our Savior’s death for humankind and celebrating the triumph and miracle of his resurrection, and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Our former assistant editor Mary Angelita Ruiz has a beautiful remembrance of Fr. Neuhaus in the new issue of Dappled Things , the magazine she helped found. The beginning is especially nice: Richard John Neuhaus sang “Come Thou Fount of Ev’ry Blessing,” that stalwart American hymn, . . . . Continue Reading »
Equally beautiful , but more haunting is Victoria’s first tenebrae responsory for Holy Thursday. Notice how the verse ends with “se suspendit”—he hanged himself—a line reflected in the music with a half note and rest where you would expect a whole note to resolve. Amicus . . . . Continue Reading »
This display spotted at my local Bi-Lo grocery store:Easter Pretty BarbieJesus, God’s Son. My teenager reports that when you press a button, He intones the Our Father, among other things, in what she describes as a “hunky” voice. Hear Him speak John 3:16! Mary Messenger of Faith. . . . . Continue Reading »
I first came to appreciate Holy Week my freshman year of college when I attended the parish of S. Clement’s, Philadelphia, whose liturgies were long, rich, and full of the majesty of the Triduum. On Holy Thursday they sing des Prez’s Missa “Pange Lingua,” whose music gives a . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently reported on the case of a baby in Canada, described in the media as dying, whose parents wanted her to be an organ donor. The non heart beating donor protocol was attempted, but the baby didn’t die, and so she was taken off the donor pool as is proper ethics in organ transplant . . . . Continue Reading »
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