The White House’s website was updated immediately after President Obama took office yesterday. Under the agenda section of the site, one finds this statment : Supports a Woman’s Right to Choose: President Obama understands that abortion is a divisive issue, and respects those who . . . . Continue Reading »
From the makers of the immensely popular Catholic Vote comes this short film. Something worth considering on Inauguration Day and during the years to come . . . www.CatholicVote.com . . . . Continue Reading »
A seminarian friend, Enrique Salvo, sends a reminiscence of Fr. Neuhaus: One sunny September morning during my first semester at St. Joseph’s seminary in 2006, I was assigned to preach about vocations at all the Sunday Masses celebrated at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. It was right . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve received a ton of emails lately from people wanting me to tell them more about what it’s like being a junior fellow at First Things . That’s a pretty tall order, so I’ve decided to recruit some junior fellows of the past to help me out. Amanda Shaw has written a nice . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent open letter to Barack Obama, Francis Cardinal George outlines the “principles and priorities” which will “make this period of national change a time to advance the common good and defend the life and dignity of all.” Writing on behalf of the United States . . . . Continue Reading »
A short time ago Barack Obama became the nation’s chief executive and the leader of the Free World. His inauguration as 44th President was historic and nation-altering: what was at one time an inconceivable dream - an African-American President - is now a daily fact. Flying . . . . Continue Reading »
Uh, oh: Here it comes. Incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle wants to create a US Agency to control costs based on the UK’s Orwellian-named National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which substantially controls the ethics and medical . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, University College London announced that a baby in the UK was born after being tested and screened for a genetic form of breast cancer. Slate’s national correspondent William Saletan does a fine job highlighting the euphemisms and subtle implications present in the announcement: . . . . Continue Reading »
As regular SHSers know, I love non controversial biotechnology. Here’s another good example. If it works, it will be a case of life imitating, well not art exactly, but schlock.Scientists have invented a mini robot that might be injected into a stroke patient’s blood stream with which to . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the things I have come to understand about the euthanasia movement is that the law will never be loose enough to satiate the appetite of the ideologically committed for death on demand. As one example, when the Dutch formally legalized euthanasia, the very next day the Minister of Health . . . . Continue Reading »
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