In addition to pushing assisted suicide, groups like Compassion and Choices yearn for respectability and desire to be seen as legitimate care givers for patients, at least in an informational context. That was part of the point last year when California passed AB 2747, requiring doctors to inform . . . . Continue Reading »
As I have often said, the culture of death brooks no dissent. The Bush “conscience clause” regulations protecting health care workers from being discriminated against in their employment for refusing to participate in medical procedures with which they disagree on religious or moral . . . . Continue Reading »
It is sickening to read the proposed bureaucratic forms that patients and their death doctors will fill out and send to the state when planning assisted suicides. Twenty years ago, people would have called me a total paranoid if I predicted this is what we would become. I wouldn’t have . . . . Continue Reading »
As previously advertised , my colleague Amanda Shaw and I were on SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Catholic Channel this afternoon with Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., on his weekly show “Word to Life.” Fr. Aquinas has a recording of the show here on his website . Amanda and I appear around . . . . Continue Reading »
I was rereading the review of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor that I mentioned yesterday , and I ran across this puzzling sentence: You could read all of O’Connor’s work and conclude that she hated God, with an amused and bitter hatred; you could, with somewhat less support, . . . . Continue Reading »
Flipping through the first volume of Fr. Neuhaus’ The Best of the Public Square I happened upon this diverting item from the December 1994 While We’re At It: “The Politics of the Breast” is an opinion piece in the New York Times advocating the right of women to go . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomorrow on SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Catholic Channel Amanda Shaw and I are scheduled to discuss living and working with Fr. Neuhaus. Our host will be Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., whose show “Word to Life” is broadcast live from 1:00—2:00 PM. If you get SIRIUS channel 159 or . . . . Continue Reading »
If you happened to miss Raymond Arroyo’s tribute to Father Neuhaus last friday on EWTN’s “The World Over,” the video has been posted online. George Weigel, Michael Novak, and Joseph Bottum spend the hour reminiscing about Father’s amazing life and the legacy he has . . . . Continue Reading »
Each year the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to prognosticate about the coming year. This year, that duty is painful. I believe we are entering dark days. But it is my job to call them as I see them without honey coating. (This is an abridged version. For more details read the original . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Book Forum , Wendy Lesser has written a fascinating review of Brad Gooch’s new biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor : Gooch clearly loves O’Connor, but they are just as clearly a bad match (as are so many of the pairings—religious, marital, filial, . . . . Continue Reading »
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