New editions of my regular podcast, “What It Means to be Human,” come out each Tuesday. I tend to wait for a slow news day before linking them here, and with all the assisted suicides going on, and televised depictions thereof, not to mention a judge ludicrously turning the advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »
The similarities between the “suicide tourism” ongoing in Switzerland and Jack Kevorkian’s death circus are just too striking to ignore. Both involved depressed people with disabilities, people with terminal illnesses, and some people who are not ill at all traveling from their . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to all who’ve written or called about my daughter Faith. She’s in the intensive-care wing of the pediatrics ward at NYU hospital, but the doctors are fairly confident they have the situation under control. Your prayers are more than welcome. . . . . Continue Reading »
Whatever happened to fact checking in the media? I recall writing an article against Kevorkian for the New York Times more than ten years ago, and I had to prove every i-dot and t-cross to the editor—it was the editorial equivalent of a colonoscopy. (“Depressed? Don’t Go See Dr. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Gray Lady has now officially noticed in print the radical attacks on human exceptionalism represented by Ecuador’s granting rights to nature and Spain on the verge of passing the Great Ape Project. No, of course it doesn’t frame it that way! Indeed, the story is rather . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t planning on exploring the Vatican’s new bioethics pronouncement. But the media’s reportage does bear some discussion. Scientific American’s story, for example, contains the following subheadline: Mischaracterizations of science lurk in the Vatican’s latest . . . . Continue Reading »
Those seeking more information about Avery Cardinal Dulles might look at an obituary by Joseph Bottum, which ran today in the Times (London). . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week, I posted a new feature on the site that counted unique visitors and the country each is from. The vast majority of those who come here are from the USA, Canada, the UK, and Australia. But I am honored to note that people from 82 countries have come here just since I added that . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an interview with the filmmaker who made the pro assisted suicide film of a man with motor neurone disease (ALS) receiving assisted suicide. He admits he did it as as advocacy effort to get us to accept the hemlock. The man who died shared the agenda.The filmaker says the Terri Schiavo case . . . . Continue Reading »
You may have read on our homepage : Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., died this morning at age ninety. I was not privileged to know him well, but I will not forget visiting him with Nathaniel this fall at Fordham. He could not talk, but his eyes were as bright as ever, especially as we told him stories . . . . Continue Reading »
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