Francis Canavan

It is commonplace in pro-life circles to compare the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) to the Court’s historic decision in 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sandford . In both cases, pro-life advocates claim, the Court denied essential constitutional protections to whole classes of . . . . Continue Reading »

A professor of constitutional law and a doctor write about dying and death from their respective points of view. Melvin Urofsky is on the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University; Sherwin Nuland teaches surgery and the history of medicine at Yale University. Each of them, however, addresses the . . . . Continue Reading »

Papal doctrine on political economy has long been misunderstood as well as mistrusted among those economic liberals who in the United States have the curious habit of calling themselves conservatives. The recent publication of John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus, commemorating as it does the . . . . Continue Reading »