Answering the Psalmist

by Charles J. Chaput

The content of our bioethics will shape the course of our human future. That’s what makes What it Means to be Human so valuable. Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2020

Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons

by Wesley J. Smith

The forced dehydration of a patient in France affirms a deadly bioethics. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2019

The Least of These

by Wesley J. Smith

The various late-term abortion legalization proposals and policies introduced this year bring us to a crucial time of choosing.  Continue Reading »

5 Mar 2019

The Case Against CRISPR Babies

by Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.

Once the CRISPR technology is deemed safe and effective, it will be difficult for our postmodern and pluralistic society to establish limits for the genetic engineering of our children. Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2018

Card-Carrying Precadavers

by Aaron Kheriaty

It has been almost twenty years since I dissected a dead human body. It still seems strange: My first encounter with a human body to learn the art of healing was an encounter with a corpse. What is more, I took this body to pieces. In any other context, this act would have been a felony. Respect for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae

by Mary Eberstadt

One recurring theme in Pope Francis’s teaching is that human realities trump scholarly abstractions: “La realidad es superior a la idea.” His signature phrase about pastors who have the “smell of the sheep” is the folk version of this maxim. Cautions about “rigidity,” “empty . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

The “Medical Conscience” Civil Rights Movement

by Wesley J. Smith

If you believe protecting medical conscience is an important civil rights issue, join in supporting the Declaration in Support of Conscientious Objection in Health Care. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2018

Lent at Planned Parenthood

by Charlotte Allen

A few days ago, I joined a group of people praying outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington, D.C. Continue Reading »

5 Mar 2018

Joseph Fletcher’s Dark Dreams Becoming Our Reality

by Wesley J. Smith

 Joseph Fletcher mounted a frontal intellectual assault on the ideal of universal human equality.  Continue Reading »

5 Jan 2018

Trump is Letting Scientists Play God

by Wesley J. Smith

Recent advances in human cloning, synthetic biology, and CRISPR technology pose grave ethical questions—yet our president seems uninterested.  Continue Reading »

22 Dec 2017