I am not a big fan of Katie Couric—but we do have thing in common: We have both had colonoscopies. I bring this rather personal matter up because this is is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. My father died of colon cancer and believe me, you don’t want the disease, and if you . . . . Continue Reading »
This is all the Schiavos wanted to do for Terri but were prohibited in an egregious injustice; take care of their daughter for as long as she or they lived. Kaye Obara loyally and lovingly cared for her daughter Edwarda for 38 years. From the story:She never broke her promise. Kaye O’Bara, who . . . . Continue Reading »
A small but intriguing book just arrived in the mail: Rodney Clapp’s Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation . Known for such legendary songs as “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line,” Cash, particularily in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs mentioned in its February newsletter an online dialogue it hosted this summer between its president, Joel Rosenthal, and Mathew Taylor, chief executive of RSA in London, on the best reasons for supporting the crusade against global warming, . . . . Continue Reading »
A press release just arrived from the American Bible Society. I don’t see it on their website, so I thought I’d pass along the news, just in case you missed it. “Easter is a moveable feast, so to speak, because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar and every year when . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Sun runs a little piece today by Eric Ormsby on W.H Auden, a notice of the publication of Auden’s Collected Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955 . It is a nice summary of the book, as one would expect from Ormsby, but along the way it quotes the last poem Auden wrote, the 1973 . . . . Continue Reading »
Whatever happened to good old fashioned adoption? It’s still here, of course. But in our sense-of-entitlement times, why adopt when we can rent a poor woman’s uterus to gestate a baby for us? That’s seems to be a growing business in India. From the story in the New York Times:An . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the issue of a deaf couple wanting to use embryo selection to choose a deaf child before, and now the issue is again being discussed in connection with the UK’s hopeless mess of a bill that seeks to regulate all human reproduction. The issue is important on several levels and . . . . Continue Reading »
Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have teamed up to co-author and promote a bill called the “Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Condition Awareness Act.” Stranger political bedfellows could not be found: Kennedy is considered the liberal lion of the Senate whose . . . . Continue Reading »
A while back I had a—let us say, spirited — exchange with Alexia Kelley , the Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Ms. Kelley’s organization had published a statement calling for civility when Catholics disagree with each other about public policy, and I . . . . Continue Reading »
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