In an interview with RSA Journal , Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, explains how the Catholic practice of confession helps motivate people to make better long-term decisions: Matthew Taylor: This is the kind of insight that drives me to reconsider . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s “On the Square” column, I look at the magazine Cosmopolitan and the gospel it preaches so relentlessly. It is, as you’d guess, not good news. “On the surface,” I argue in The Cosmopolitan Life , Cosmopolitan portrays in bright zingy prose the . . . . Continue Reading »
MSM like the NYT and culture mavens like Oprah are enamored of procreation stories that break boundaries. The latest installment, in today’s Magazine, presents a very long article about a couple who paid for eggs and hired two surrogates to gestate two children at the same time so that . . . . Continue Reading »
The new regulation compensating doctors who discuss end of life care with Medicare patients during their yearly physicals, continues to make news. I was interviewed for one such article by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The reporter was very attentive and quoted me correctly, which is . . . . Continue Reading »
For Christmas this year my beloved wife gave me an antiquarian copy of the Lobwasser Psalter, a sturdy little volume that has weathered the centuries remarkably well. The Lobwasser Psalter was a German-language translation of the Genevan Psalms set to verse in 1573 by Ambrosius Lobwasser . . . . Continue Reading »
A Memorial Mass to honor the second anniversary of the death of Father Richard John Neuhaus will be held on Saturday, January 8, 2011, at the Church of Our Saviour (38th Street and Park Avenue). It will begin at 12:15 p.m. The celebrant and homilist will be Father George . . . . Continue Reading »
Another day, another NHS disaster looms. This time, it is in maternity care. From the story:Maternity services are close to breaking point and care for mothers is worsening, the UK’s leading midwife warns in a dramatic plea over the declining state of childbirth on the NHS. Labour . . . . Continue Reading »
An SHSer sends along this article in the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin by the head of the school’s Stem Cell Advisory Board, William Sahlman, who is also a big time professor at the the Harvard Business School. He is reacting to a federal court’s ruling that President . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the position of fascinating posts on the Porcher page. The whole Christian/Biblical/monotheistic tradition has, until quite recently, been against cremation. I don’t think the “progressive” argument for its efficiency in disposing of a dead body is anything but . . . . Continue Reading »
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