Ryan T. Anderson

Here’s a nice article about the new Bioethics Institute and Chair at Franciscan University. Patrick Lee, a collegue of mine at the Witherspoon Institute , is doing great work at Franciscan. . . . . Continue Reading »

What began as a little joke around the office has become a grass-roots political movement online. Richard John Neuhaus in 2008. News Channel 3 explains: http://www.news3online.com/index.php?code=603a543g92Is08HvrocI . . . . Continue Reading »

In the current issue of America , ” A Sexual Revolution : One woman’s journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic.” The Theology of the Body seems key. A bit from the article: Growing up in secular middle-class America, I understood sex as something disconnected from the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is remarkable that it has gone unremarked—months into the election season, and nobody seems to have noticed that John McCain is running on an astonishingly Catholic platform. Nearly every time he ventures off the establishment conservative ranch, he moves in the direction of liberal . . . . Continue Reading »

Dan Moloney, former associate editor of First Things , has a nice article up on NRO today about teenage planned pregnancy and the Gloucester case. It echoes some points that should be familiar to readers of First Things ( here and here ). . . . . Continue Reading »

News from the UK : Trapped inside their bodies, apparently switched off to the world, but still alive: they are the undead. Or so we thought. Forty per cent of patients in a ‘vegetative state’ are misdiagnosed. Now British scientists are leading the field in trying to put that right. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee, writes in today’s Washington Post : But will the money allocated for AIDS stop the spread of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa, where 76 percent of the world’s HIV-AIDS deaths occurred last year? Not . . . . Continue Reading »

Christine Rosen reflects on the passing of Harriet McBryde Johnson: When Harriet McBryde Johnson died earlier this month at the age of 50 from a congenital neuromuscular disease, obituaries called her a “disability-rights activist.” This is far too narrow a description of her life. She . . . . Continue Reading »

The New Republic is up in arms at the latest Catholic League press release. At her Washington Post / Newsweek site “On Faith,” Sally Quinn wrote about attending the funeral Mass for Tim Russert: “Last Wednesday I was determined to take it [the Eucharist] for Tim, . . . . Continue Reading »

A reader writes in and notes the striking similarities between Mr. Bottum and Mr. Spock. . . . . Continue Reading »