I hate it when celebrity disease victims are used for political purposes—as was the case, I fear, with Big Biotech and Parkinson’s patient Michael J. Fox, who has spent years telling the country falsely that the Bush ESCR funding policy was keeping people like him from being cured, . . . . Continue Reading »
It is reported that Fr. Stanley Jaki, O.S.B., died today in Spain. Fr. Jaki was well-known for his writings on science and religion. He was selected to give the prestigious Gifford Lectures in the mid-1970s, and these lectures were published as The Road of Science and the Ways to God . For many . . . . Continue Reading »
From the tenebrae service for Holy Saturday, here is Victoria’s “O Vos Omnes” sung by Harry Christophers and the Sixteen: O vos omnes qui transitis per viam: attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus. Attendite, universi populi, et videte dolorem meum. Si est dolor similis . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what James Morrison reports in today’s Washington Times : The Vatican has quietly rejected at least three of President Obama’s candidates to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See because they support abortion, and the White House might be running out of time to find an . . . . Continue Reading »
As we have discussed previously in articles and blog posts, President Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services are planning to rescind conscience-protection regulations for pro-life healthcare workers. Americans United For Life sent us a note with links to send comments to the HHS and . . . . Continue Reading »
Newly discovered documents reveal that Cardinal Cardinal John Henry Newman’s writings directly influenced Sophie Scholl, who was beheaded in 1943 for defying the Nazis: New documents unearthed by German academics have revealed that the writings of the 19th-century English theologian were a . . . . Continue Reading »
I should add “Cont’d,” since this is hardly the first, or last, instance of state courts’ deliberating on and dictating the meaning of marriage. Last Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously overturned the state’s existing law defining marriage as a union between one . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s Washington Post , Michael Kinsley said good riddance to traditional newsprint. Capitalism, he argues, is just doing its job, and we’ll be left with a leaner, meaner, more efficient news distribution system in the end: Capitalism is a “perennial gale of creative . . . . Continue Reading »
I will say it until I am blue in the face, and then I will keep saying it: Euthanasia guidelines are not really there to be followed and actually protect the vulnerable; they are there to give the illusion of control. Consider: In Belgium, which has Dutch-style euthanasia, an elderly woman wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
I will say it until I am blue in the face, and then I will keep saying it: Euthanasia guidelines are not really there to be followed and actually protect the vulnerable. They are there to give the illusion of control.Consider: In Belgium, which has Dutch-style euthanasia, an elderly woman wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
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