British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced he’d like to amend the country’s Act of Settlement , which bars royals who marry Roman Catholics from taking the throne: Britain may allow the monarch to marry a Catholic and give female heirs an equal claim to the throne, the government . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, yes, I know: Very few doctors take the Hippocratic Oath anymore—which I have repeatedly written about here at SHS and elsewhere—because it interferes with modern cultural norms (and that includes the Hippocratic proscription against having sex with patients). But surely, physicians . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s daily article , Joshua S. Trevino’s main point is that the mainstream media’s understanding of religion is deplorable, and about that he’s certainly right. In the course of discussing Catholic doctrine and canon law in connection with the Recife case, however, . . . . Continue Reading »
Meanwhile back on the ranch, scientists continue to progress with the development of induced pluripotent stem cells, an ethical “alternative” to ESCR—because no human life is destroyed in the derivation of the cells. Now, using human tissues, IPSCs were created without potentially . . . . Continue Reading »
As people like David Rothkopf continue to accuse Benedict XVI of furthering the pain and suffering of Africa by not advocating condoms as the best way to prevent AIDS, Ross Douthat asks where exactly they see the evidence for this Catholic malfeasance: Do religious Africans have higher infection . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a bill pending in the Scottish Parliament to legalize assisted suicide. It’s author recently “narrowed” the bill to protect the vulnerable. But the narrowed bill would explicitly legalize assisted suicide for people with disabilities, once again clearly demonstrating that . . . . Continue Reading »
Damian Thompson reflects on the death of British reality-TV star Jade Goody and what the media attention given the event says about our society: Jade Goody has died. Move along now, there’s nothing more to see. Unless you count her grief-stricken relatives and “grieving” crowds, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written how radical environmentalism is becoming distinctly anti-human. With the fervent ideology of Deep Ecology, it is explicitly stated. But some of what we are witnessing among the neo Greens is a drive to sacrifice human flourishing and prosperity—without the explicitly stated . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I mentioned an article by William Saletan about surrogate mothers in California who, because they stopped being paid for their services, had every right to abort the child that, genetically speaking, wasn’t even theirs. As I said, the case is “another example of how in vitro . . . . Continue Reading »
Biscuits aren’t just a staple for judges. According to Ben Schott , in the RAF a “meeting without coffee” means a dressing down by a senior officer. And for serious malefactors the penalty is more severe: “In the Royal Air Force one is summoned to a ‘meeting with tea . . . . Continue Reading »
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