Our latest episode of hypocrisy by those who are the most high strung over the predicted collapse of civilization due to “climate change,” (i.e., Al Gore taking limos and private jets), is our intrepid President Obama. He who is so concerned about carbon footprints and promoting . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicholas Kristof, the famous New York Times columnist, has weighed in on animal rights. Except he hasn’t. Animal rights is not the same thing as animal welfare— improving the humane treatment of animals, a good and noble cause. Rather, it is an ideology that equates human and animal . . . . Continue Reading »
I was shocked by this assisted suicide scene when Soylent Green first came out-in the early 1970s—and believe me, I was not alone. As the audience left the theater, we assured ourselves, “It can’t happen here.” How wrong we were. No one dreamed that less than 40 years later . . . . Continue Reading »
China’s one child policy has led to a terrible problem with sex selection abortion, leading to tens of millions fewere females than males, causing a crisis in gender distribution that threatens to undermine China’s stability. From the story:Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess . . . . Continue Reading »
Dollars to donuts that Compassion and Choices brought this story to the reporter: Apparently a pancreatic cancer patient wanted assisted suicide and couldn’t find a doctor to do the deed. (Note how the story reporter, Laura Kate Zaichkin, blatantly employs the usual pro-assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
Nathan Diament, the director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has called the tension between gay rights and religious liberty “the mega-cultural issue of the decade.” That may well be an understatement, so it’s nice to see that the problem is . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Fr. Jenkins has finally decided to respond to his critics . It is a very lawyerly response, involving a careful parsing of the words of the statement of the U.S. Bishops conference entitled “Catholics in Political Life.” Jenkins asserts that he and the others who made decision to . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what headlines across the nation are screaming today, after a new study was released alleging that having a baby “accelerates the deterioration” of “marital quality over time.” Sure. If by “marital quality” one means selfishness, self-centeredness, . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn T. Stanton, director of family formation studies at Focus on the Family, writes in: Doesn’t it always happen like this? Here we are, getting ready for our big week, reflecting on our Savior’s death for humankind and celebrating the triumph and miracle of his resurrection, and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Our former assistant editor Mary Angelita Ruiz has a beautiful remembrance of Fr. Neuhaus in the new issue of Dappled Things , the magazine she helped found. The beginning is especially nice: Richard John Neuhaus sang “Come Thou Fount of Ev’ry Blessing,” that stalwart American hymn, . . . . Continue Reading »
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