Fr. Jenkins defends his decision to honor President Obama by saying that we should “engage” those who disagree with us. And yet, strangely, Fr. Jenkins has conspicuously failed to engage in a serious way the arguments of his own critics. Strong arguments against Fr. Jenkins’s . . . . Continue Reading »
John H. Thomas is the general minister and president of the United Church of Christ. He recently completed a trip to the Holy Land and penned his reflections about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. As is often the case, [Muslim] men under the age of forty-five were not permitted to pray . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine , illustrates—yet again—that assisted suicide is not about unbearable suffering that can’t be controlled—as the scaremongering promoters claim—but rather understandable and treatable fears about the future. From . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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