Very bad news out of Chicago: The company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times and 58 other newspapers and online sites said Tuesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Sun-Times Media Group, Inc. said it would continue to operate its newspapers and Web sites as usual while it improves its cost . . . . Continue Reading »
Our old friend Paul Stallsworth is hosting an ecumenical conference on the Theology of the Body in New Bern, NC on May 21, 2009. The conference is sponsored by Lifewatch, the New Bern District of The United Methodist Church, and Transforming Congregations. More information on the conference can be . . . . Continue Reading »
The always wonderful Canadian bioethicist Margarette Somerville has a terrific and thoughtful article about dying, disability, and the great meaning that can be found in these times of difficulty. It’s a long piece and I can’t do justice to it—for that you will have to read it for . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. George Rutler’s 1995 book Crisis of Saints has just been republished , which is a good thing. Missing from the new edition, however, seems to be the chapter “Newman and Land O’Lakes,” about the condition of Catholic education. As we contemplate the self-satisfied . . . . Continue Reading »
If you haven’t already had your “far out” moment for the day, be sure to check out a new essay in Seed Magazine by Nathan Schneider. It’s a summary of multiverse theory—the idea that there isn’t just one universe, but many—and how this radical cosmology is . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Ricks writes in response to my post Thomas Ricks vs. Thomas Aquinas : I’ve just read Keith Pavlischek’s article (http://www.firstthings.com/blog/), and am curious about one thing: How does he think that invading a country pre-emptively on false premises meets Aquinas’ . . . . Continue Reading »
Great news from a behind the scenes source: I have just been told that SB 1114, the bill that would have explicitly legalized futile care theory in Idaho, has died for the year. It almost snuck by, but when opponents learned about it, they mounted an 11th hour campaign to prevent passage. That . . . . Continue Reading »
Oregon’s Health Services Commission has published the list of covered treatments under the state’s rationed Medicaid law. Comfort care is high on the list, and includes assisted suicide. But the overseers of rationed care explicitly state that treatment to extend life if the prognosis . . . . Continue Reading »
Twenty years ago, Notre Dame awarded the Laetare Medal to the great Catholic novelist Walker Percy. In his acceptance speech, which can be seen in full here , Percy said: The motto of the Laetare Medal is, I understand, ’ Magna est veritas et prevalebit ,’ ‘Truth is mighty and . . . . Continue Reading »
Philip Nitscke is the Australian answer to Jack Kevorkian who has spent years as a media darling opining that “troubled teens” should have access to suicide pills, teaching people how to commit suicide, creating the “peaceful pill,” a concoction of everyday products that can . . . . Continue Reading »
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