The numbers keep on climbing : Nearly 40 percent of babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by unwed mothers, according to data released last month by the National Center for Health Statistics. The 1.7 million out-of-wedlock births, of 4.3 million total births, marked a more than 25 . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicholas Kristof is a famous New York Times columnist who has now weighed in on animal rights. Except he hasn’t. Animal rights is not the same thing as animal welfare, e.g. improving the humane treatment of animals, a good and noble cause. Rather, it is an ideology that equates human and . . . . Continue Reading »
You want to know the problem with morality today? It’s all head and no heart. Instead of thinking about the difference between right and wrong, we should just trust the instincts given to us through evolution and do what feels right. After attending a Templeton Foundation event last month . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot believe that a science advisor to the POTUS (President of the United States) would seriously suggest that we study creating an artificial volcano that shoots pollution high into the atmosphere in order to combat global warming. But apparently he has. From the story:The president’s new . . . . Continue Reading »
Annie Lubliner Lehmann’s son Jonah was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. After twenty-two years of struggling to change her son, Lehmann writes that it was Jonah who finally changed her: Not long ago, I came across a basement copy of “Cinderella.” It reminded me of a time . . . . Continue Reading »
From the tenebrae service for Holy Saturday, here is Victoria’s “Ecce Quomodo Moritur” sung by Harry Christophers and the Sixteen: Ecce quomodo moritur iustus et nemo percipit corde. Viri iusti tolluntur et nemo considerat. A facie iniquitatis sublatus est iustus et erit in pace . . . . Continue Reading »
The current Texas Futile Care law is a disgrace, permitting star chamber ethics committees to force patients off of wanted life sustaining treatment, with family given a mere 10 days to find another hospital. This often proves impossible because these are expensive patients for which to care.The . . . . Continue Reading »
A very sad case in Canada is testing the ethics of organ donation at a Canadian hospital. A terminally ill baby was going to be allowed to die naturally and then after cardiac arrest, be an organ donor under the “Non Heart Beating Cadaver Donor Protocol.” But the baby didn’t die as . . . . Continue Reading »
A Way of the Cross procession will take place the night of Good Friday at 8:30 p.m., beginning at Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Mott St. and Prince St.). The procession will move through the East and West Village and will be accompanied by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and seminarians . . . . Continue Reading »
At Books and Culture , former First Things junior fellow Jordan Hylden reviews Richard John Neuhaus’ final book, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile : In his last book, American Babylon, Neuhaus gives us an imaginative vision of how to be a faithful and hopeful Christian witness in . . . . Continue Reading »
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