What an expensive joke the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has become. Conflicts of interest are rife, leading to a Little Hoover Commission investigation. Management meltdowns have mixed with an incredible sense of entitlement and hubris. Hundreds of millions that were promised to go . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist ‘s Intelligent Life magazine has an article in its Winter issue investigating the relationship between faith and families. Among the scholars mentioned in the piece is Mary Eberstadt, who wrote “The Vindication of Humanae Vitae ” for the August/September issue of . . . . Continue Reading »
The best torture is an effect caused by acts which are not torture. Andrew and Ross reflect. My basic stance on torture is pretty clear but also pretty modern: I want a strict, narrow definition of that which is absolutely impermissible. This suggests great skepticism and discomfort with what Ross . . . . Continue Reading »
Few pieces of music I know capture the mystery of the Incarnation better than Victoria’s motet “O Magnum Mysterium.” The words are: O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral a crowd of 750 bid farewell to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. in a beautiful funeral Mass. Fordham University and the New York Times have accounts of the occasion. . . . . Continue Reading »
Many conservatives hope political pressure will force Obama to move to the center. There’s indeed good reason to expect that he will pursue a moderate economic and foreign policy, but he seems wholly set on preserving and strengthening the Roe regime and supporting other socially liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman has written a difficult but, I think, important column on the distinction between the moral value of a beloved dog coming to the end of its life and those of human beings. Any pet owner can only have great empathy for the grief Bookman is . . . . Continue Reading »
The Department of Health and Human Services will publish its Final Rule tomorrow protecting the rights of conscience for health care workers who refuse to perform medical acts with which they morally disagree. The rule specifically applies to abortion and sterilization. But it also has a general . . . . Continue Reading »
In this edition of What It Means to be Human, I get into conscience clauses as a potential way for us to co-exist together, given our profound cultural differences over what I call “an emerging culture of death.” I conclude: I strongly support the rights of conscience for health care . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, as long as Stalin meant well: Stalin, the brutal Soviet dictator responsible for the deaths of millions of his citizens, has been undergoing a makeover of sorts in recent years. Russian authorities have reshaped the Georgia-born dictator’s image into that of a misunderstood, demonized . . . . Continue Reading »
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