When I heard the news that she had died, I realized I hadn’t thought about the singer Phoebe Snow for many years. It turns out that was because she gave up stardom to care for her disabled child. From her obituary:At the peak of her fame, in December 1975, she gave birth to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Academia grows increasingly loony—and the cause is rejecting human exceptionalism. Our latest example comes from the new field of “animal ethics,” where some academics want us to stop insulting our dogs and cats by calling them “pets.” From the story: Animal . . . . Continue Reading »
In his forthcoming book, Liberty Defined , Congressman Ron Paul explains why he is pro-life : On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning On the Square , Russ Saltzman ponders the intricacies of a Eucharistic faith: Then there are questions bothering me yet about elements that are inadvertently added to the elements. I have reluctantly swallowed a fly (wasn’t much way to avoid it) from the chalice while . . . . Continue Reading »
Colleges are failing the young, as James Matthew Wilson notes , by not helping them to learn how to live chastely in our pornographic culture: A group called the Young Conservatives of Texas have helped craft legislation which would require any Texas public university with a center for . . . . Continue Reading »
“But even as the Jesuits brace for near-extinction in this part of the world, their ideals are spreading,” writes a sympathetic Washington Post reporter in Fewer Jesuit priests this Easter, but more people learning Jesuit ideals . The lack of new priests, they say, must be part of . . . . Continue Reading »
Academic Freedom. Don’t you love it? I do. But I have noticed in my work that these days, AF tends to be a one way street—protecting those with “approved” views, but leaving heterodox thinkers twisting in the wind of denied tenure, teaching . . . . Continue Reading »
Whatever one thinks of assisted suicide—and my position is abundantly clear to anyone following this blog for more than a day or two—when it is undertaken, the death certificate should so state. But the Washington law legalizing assisted suicide legally requires doctors to falsify . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter can speak with more authority about this question than I can. I’m merely an Army brat, having spent the first sixteen years of my life living on or near Army bases in the U.S. and Germany. I was indifferently churched, but did spend time in a variety of Army-sponsored . . . . Continue Reading »
Of theology, that is. The Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is hosting a conference in September, ” The Intellectual Tasks of the New Evangelization .” The purpose? “The Committee hopes this conference will provide an occasion to build . . . . Continue Reading »
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