The Burlington Free Press has a front page story today on suicide prevention. From the story:Vermont school administrators, guidance counselors and teachers routinely receive training on how to prevent teen suicides, but mental health experts say even with intervention, not every life can be . . . . Continue Reading »
When I wrote here about the restaurant planning on serving lion tacos, I said it would never happen. And, as is usually the case when I put on my prophesying hat, I was right. From the story:An Arizona restaurant has scrapped plans to offer African lion meat in its tacos. Bryan Mazon, . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch: Student-government leaders want Ohio State University to change the student government charter to permit University of Michigan students to join OSU student leadership.... “It’s the general feeling among most students that Ohio State should not tolerate . . . . Continue Reading »
A one-day symposium exploring that questions is being hosted at the Museum of Biblical Art on February 7th. A PDF of the conference schedule is available here . The intriguing lineup of speakers, chosen by the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art , appears to be . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been fighting against euthanasia since 1992. All that time, I have been waiting for patient killing to be coupled with organ harvesting. Now it has—in Belgium. Doctors have even taken to the road to promote the idea. From the story: A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting . . . . Continue Reading »
Back when I first got into this line of work, I wrote a piece for Newsweek about the dangers of euthanasia consciousness. I was a naif at the time. I had no idea how insidiously seductive the culture of death could be nor how deeply it had already seeped into the culture of the West. . . . . Continue Reading »
The manufacturer of a drug used in executions can’t produce it anymore—making lethal injections problematic. From the story:The legitimacy of the death penalty in the U.S. is regularly debated. But now, at least 35 states that already administer capital punishment may no longer be able . . . . Continue Reading »
William Oddie has offered in the Catholic Herald some suggestions for a Second Syllabus of Errors , playing off the original issued by Pope Pius IX in 1864 to the consternation and outrage of various and sundry regarding its reactionary and anti-modernist bent (Pius’s, not Oddie’s). . . . . Continue Reading »
In his annual message for the World Day of Social Communications , Pope Benedict expressed an appreciation for social media, though he warns against “enclosing oneself in a sort of parallel existence, or excessive exposure to the virtual world.” In the digital world, transmitting . . . . Continue Reading »
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