On the front page of yesterday’s Washington Post (and already online the night before) appeared a story about five—count ‘em, five—catechists in the Catholic diocese of Arlington, Virginia who will no longer be catechists in the next school year because they declined to make . . . . Continue Reading »
I will be doing an every-other-Friday column for First Things’ “On the Square,” and am most pleased. Today, I illustrate how bioethical issues have become the battle ground for a secularist assault against freedom of religion, by seeking to shrink the core liberty to a . . . . Continue Reading »
German Rabbis Mobilize Against Court Ruling David Rising, Associated Press The Big Higgs Question Steven Weinberg, New York Review of Books The Mystery of China’s Missing Bishop John Sudworth, BBC After the Fortnight, What Next? Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote The . . . . Continue Reading »
Not good I think. Hopefully not true - like most VP rumours. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece up on To The Source discussing the serious charge that the Liverpool Care Pathway, intended to ensure that no patient dies in unalleviated pain, has mutated into back door euthanasia. I explain why palliative sedation is not killing, and then show how what should be a very . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Williams, the dissident Puritan statesman who founded Rhode Island after being exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, has become something of a touchstone for everyone from middle-school textbook writers to politicians looking to add a rhetorical flourish to an upcoming . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for cityArts , Maureen Mullarkey reviews a new exhibition at the DC Moore Gallery, American (ir)religiosity : Censorship battles over sexually explicit imagery have been won. That old X-rated thrill is gone. Nowadays, organs and orifices are as transgressive as your parish bulletin. . . . . Continue Reading »
Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton notes that St. Francis never actually said “Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, use words.” and that his own apostolate shows the inadequacy of the quip. You know what it’s supposed to mean, and there is an error to which it’s a . . . . Continue Reading »
The New England Journal of Medicine has long advocated assisted suicide in its pages. It now has a piece supposedly rebutting opponents of legalizing assisted suicide in Oregon. For example, it says that assisted suicide was not carried out on people with mental illnesses. How we . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga questions whether “conservative” churches are really growing : The Episcopal Church is in the news again for the usual reasons. First, a few days ago it was reported that the Episcopal Church suffered a 23 percent decline in attendance from 2000 to 2010. Second, on . . . . Continue Reading »
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