I was alerted by Nat Hentoff about an assertion made by Peter Singer—as reported in the Catholic Eye—at a Princeton conference around the abortion question, in which he claims that human beings don’t possess full moral status until after the age of two. I checked it out for . . . . Continue Reading »
For reasons some of you may be able to explain, we’ve started getting a lot of comments on “On the Square” articles that are clearly written to order, often by people who do not write English very well. Most are generic and could fit any article, but some make some vague reference . . . . Continue Reading »
When proponents of Proposition 71 shouted CURES! CURES! CURES in 2004, perhaps the people of California could be forgiven for believing them—what with all the hype going on at the time—and borrowing $3 billion to pay for research grants (which will be at least $6 billion when interest is . . . . Continue Reading »
The day a man reads his last new Sherlock Holmes mystery is a sad one. The stories decline in quality, but to the very last retain some echo of what made the early tales classics of the detective genre.The best Holmes can be reread, but still a man likes to have something new to read during his free . . . . Continue Reading »
I have always believed that Octomom’s (Nadya Suleman) doctor didn’t do anything that other IVF doctors don’t sometimes do, that is implant six embryos. It appears, however, that he got carried away, in one attempt implanting 12.Still, I think that his biggest crime, for which . . . . Continue Reading »
In theory, raising taxes should be a way to increase revenues that can be used to reduce the federal deficit. In reality, increased tax revenues not only do not reduce the deficit, they lead to increased spending : In the late 1980s, one of us, Richard Vedder, and Lowell Gallaway of Ohio University . . . . Continue Reading »
Four years ago, I wrote about the case of Abdul Rahman , an Afghan convert to Christianity who was charged with apostasy (punishable by execution under Islamic law). Thanks to worldwide pressure on the Karzai government, he was released and offered asylum in Italy. As I noted in my earlier . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Benedict’s clarification of the moral theology relating to condom use has produced one of those moments in media life when journalists ceremoniously remove their thinking caps and implement a hopelessly formulaic analysis of the Church’s inner politics and theological dialogue. CNN . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, in “On the Square,” instead of the regular column we offer Archbishop Charles Chaput’s review of the now controversial book by Pope Benedict, Light of the World . It is, he writes, a “remarkable book” and “an absolutely mandatory read for anyone who wants . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on the Evangel blog, Jeremy Pierce explains the moral reasoning behind Pope Benedict’s recent comment on the use of condoms: There’s a category of moral obligations that occur in funny circumstances. Given that you are doing a certain immoral thing, there are nevertheless . . . . Continue Reading »
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