On to the mentally ill! That is the message of a new article in the Dutch language tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 53 (2011) 8 (Journal of Psychiatry). I’ll skip the nonsense about great care being shown, and “hopeless” conditions—which the article doesn’t say . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night in Charleston, South Carolina on the day the nation celebrates the Rev. Dr. King, Governor Rick Perry used a question about voting rights to say the Federal government was at “war” with the states. This was either ignorant or disgusting. I think it should end the Perry . . . . Continue Reading »
Joan Frawley Desmund at National Catholic Register interviewed Georgetown University’s Thomas Farr several days ago, with a focus on the administration’s promotion of gay rights abroad. Farr discusses the open letter, drafted and signed by Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Jews, and Sikhs, . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is the first of my big thoughts on it. . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz errs when he suggests, in his critique of the Wall Street Journal editors, that the Journal ‘s position is dishonest. The editors have not only made the morally right case, they have been honest and consistent in doing so. Schmitz doesn’t see this because he has . . . . Continue Reading »
The Belgian medical establishment’s enthusiastic embrace of euthanasia has been breathtaking and appalling to behold. Now a study is out stating that a euthanasia counseling service is being underutilized by Belgian doctors. From” Implementation of a service for physicians’ . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Kraynak has published a very fine essay in the current issue of The New Atlantis . In the essay, he argues—quite compellingly, to my mind—that contemporary efforts to appeal to human dignity need foundations that those who make the appeal typically are unable to provide. . . . . Continue Reading »
Martin Luther King, Jr. makes a point that has been forgotten by some of his political heirs: Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values.The two . . . . Continue Reading »
As discussion over the en masse conversions of Anglican priests and parishes continues to swirl (and the media continues to misrepresent, intentionally or unintentionally, the significance of the influx of married priests), a recent op-ed by Fr. Scott Hurd, the Vicar General of the new Ordinariate . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on prosperity’s constant conflict : Though our impoverished origins were centuries established, the only remaining connection to them is in our church, and for many of our siblings and cousins that is a tenuous connection, indeed, for prosperity and good fortune rarely prompt . . . . Continue Reading »
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