Healing, Service, Reverence for the Person, Respect for the Family, Commitment to the Poor: In the medical world today, these principles—asserted and upheld—can’t be taken for granted. Which makes the opening , yesterday, of Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy, noteworthy not just to the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have always said that if you want to see why things seem to be going so wrong in bioethics, just look at the professional literature at the most elite levels, in which a more candid view is presented than may appear in popular media. The bioethics blogs can also be illuminating.Case in point, a . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that Conor Friedersdorf and I only ever have one fight: he tends to judge things (candidate, ideas, and political parties) strictly on their merits, and I always want to make it more complicated . From his post on Young Turkism in the pundit class: . . . had TS Elliot sent me "The . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
Here’s Daniel Larison (more specifically, one of many good points Daniel Larison makes in response to this post ): If it was absurd to say that an unexamined life was worth living, as the “red state” correspondent claimed, it is perhaps even more absurd to say that a complicated . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Hancock in his latest post has hit upon a problem that has plagued philosophy since the age of the Greeks in writing that "thinkers" should, " . . . .appreciate the dependence of their own transcendence on the intimations available in ordinary, pre-philosophic life." It . . . . 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 »
The recent C11 piece about a Red State’s-eye-view of life was, among other things, a juicy piece of blog bait. I’ll bite: Traditional peoples have met opposition from the beginning of history. Our way of life drives some people nuts. We do not subject our values to critical thinking and . . . . 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 »
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