Speaking of our beloved former colleague, Ryan recently wrote a review of Christ Our Joy: The Theological Vision of Pope Benedict XVI in Christianity Today. Here are a few paragraphs to whet your appetite: Nietzsche’s attack on Christianity’s “slave morality” paved the way . . . . Continue Reading »
The excellent team of scholars working under the auspices of The Witherspoon Institute has just launched an online publication called Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good . Public Discourse is an interesting hybrid of the blog and journal formats. According to the introductory letter . . . . Continue Reading »
Nothing, nothing is too low to do to Sarah Palin. Larry Flynt has apparently made a porn movie with a Sarah Palin look alike. Can you imagine the justified STINK that would be raised if this were done with a Barack Obama look alike? The foulness is beyond belief.And a Daily News columnist (the . . . . Continue Reading »
Courts continue to support euthanasia by not meaningfully punishing people who murder their loved ones who are sick or disabled. The latest example of this terminal non judgmementalism comes out of the UK, in which a husband was not put in jail despite murdering his wife, who begged “No, . . . . Continue Reading »
I sometimes despair how hard it seems to be for so many people to “get” why attempts to depersonalize some humans as we personalize nature are so harmful. But it is, and unless current trends are reversed, it will get increasingly worse.Take the recent declaration of individual . . . . Continue Reading »
In his daily article today , Rusty Reno quotes Paul Griffiths as saying that “the term [limbo of the fathers] is not found in the 1992 Catechism, nor in the Catechism of the Council of Trent,” the implication being that neither text supports Pitstick’s claim that (in Reno’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette was on CNN’s Reliable Sources yesterday, and she brought up a point in the Ayers/Obama controversy—the particulars of which are not relevant here—that was worth the price of tuning in. When Howard Kurtz asked her to justify her remark that a NYT story on the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have remarked previously that too often, scientific studies are actually ideological advocacy tracts in disguise. Or, a scientific study is misreported without the nuance contained therein by media toward the same purpose and effect. Or, a study one day says A and the next day on the same topic . . . . Continue Reading »
If only it were this simple and of such little . . . . Continue Reading »
This is all so phony: Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) has filed a suit to declare Montana’s law prohibiting assisted suicide to be unconstitutional as against Montana’s right to privacy. The suit seeks to declare that a terminally ill person has a right to assistance . . . . Continue Reading »
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