George Weigel has penned a sharp response to Cafardi, Kaveny, and Kmiec’s response to his original Newsweek column . The whole thing is worth reading, so it’s hard to select just a couple sample paragraphs. But here’s the opening: I take it as an iron law of controversy that when . . . . Continue Reading »
Al Martinez, an LA Times columnist (the newspaper that declared “nature rights” in Ecuador to be “intriguing), has caught up with the plants rights movement. In “Getting an Earful From Your Veggies,” he writes: It is not enough to worry about the economy, the political . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re in the New York area on November 13, frequent FT contributor Stephen Barr will deliver the St. Albert’s Day Lecture at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer (Lexington and 66th) at 7:00 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public and is entitled Modern Physics and Ancient Faith. . . . . Continue Reading »
American suicide rates are increasing. From the story:The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase in the overall . . . . Continue Reading »
Some organ transplant doctors and ethicists continue their campaign to get the people to accept killing for organs. This time the scene is Australia. A transplant physician now says that brain death can’t be known, nor heart death. The answer, obviously, is to kill for organs. From the story: . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights types sometimes get so lost in their hyper romanticism about animals they lose touch with reality. This is happening now in Canada in the aftermath of a man killing a bear in self defense. The bear’s cubs subsequently were euthanized. From the story: A B.C. [British Columbia] man . . . . Continue Reading »
From today’s Independent : Gayle Williams worked with the poorest and most unfortunate of the children in Afghanistan, young boys and girls who had lost limbs to landmines and bombs. She was dedicated to her task of teaching them the basic skills needed to survive in a harsh and violent land. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a question for the logicians out there: How do you reconcile this : Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report. Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, “Climate change: faster, . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Royal reflects here on the limited importance of book-learning: [We should get rid of the idea that] a superficial understanding of sacred things is an advance over longstanding practices that directly confront the evils we find in ourselves and in a fallen world. On the very first page of . . . . Continue Reading »
A new law out of the Australian state of Victoria must be discussed. First, it permits abortion through the ninth month, meaning that viable babies are subject to being killed, which is to say it gets close to the land of infanticide. Second, it requires all doctors to either do abortions, or if . . . . Continue Reading »
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