A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, illustrates—yet again—that assisted suicide in Oregon has not been about unbearable suffering that can’t be controlled—as the scaremongering of its salesmen and women would have it, but fears about the future. From . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend and board member Michael Novak is working on a project to start a book series of “Catholic Family Classics.” Read more about it here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently Newt Gingrich plans to enter the Catholic Church this Easter. . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists announced that for the first time they have successfully detected and tracked an asteroid as it collided with earth. It was a very small asteroid and what was left of it after passing through earth’s atmosphere landed in the Sudanese desert, having posed no danger to the United . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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