My morning reading has settled into some habitual grooves, and for a reliably thoughtful one or two articles a day, I go to FT’s ” On the Square ,” to Public Discourse , and to The Catholic Thing , where one of the regulars is Brad Miner. Today Mr. Miner (we’ve . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re pleased to inform our online readers that William Doino will become the newest regular columnist for the First Things website. Doino is a writer on Church history, particularly issues of the twentieth century, including the papacy of Pius XII and the Second Vatican Council. He is widely . . . . Continue Reading »
IVF has always been a form of human experimentation—which costs the subject’s (the baby) parents a lot of money—since we jumped head first into the technology without fully knowing the potential consequences. And now, decades later, we are finding that people born from IVF have . . . . Continue Reading »
Art Caplan, a well-regarded liberal bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, reports on a new study on the risks of IVF and ICSI: An article just published in the highly respected journal Fertility and Sterility ought to give anyone thinking about using “test tube” baby technology . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on the serenity of Vatican II : The progressive left sees the Council as an open-ended innovation whose revolutionary promise has yet to be fulfilled. The traditionalist right views it with deep suspicion and is sometimes heard to say (if not openly, at least sotto voce) that the . . . . Continue Reading »
GetReligion , a site which is perhaps the most astute watchdog of the media’s coverage of religion today, highlights a recent example of remarkably solid reporting. Calling it a refreshing change of pace from the raft of screeds which have populated editorial pages over the past week, Mollie . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing at the Weekly Standard, Phillip Muñoz argues for the merits of the recent statement on religious freedom by the Catholic bishops: The Obama administration was not against an exemption per se, it just wanted a narrow one that only covered church employees serving members of their own . . . . Continue Reading »
For all the screaming about Republicans cutting Medicare, Obamacare cut it by $500 billion. The law provided that the bite begin this year. Oops. That could hurt the president’s reelection chances. So, the spending has been maintained by pretending existing Medicare programs are experimental! . . . . Continue Reading »
The Possibility of the Non-Theocratic Regime Thaddeus Kozinski, Ethika Politika Reclaiming the Cultural Foundation of Money Bruce Davis, ResPublica Challenging Sacred Assumptions Peter Wehner, Commentary A Baptist Theology of the Body? Ken Camp, Associated Baptist Press The Most Religiously . . . . Continue Reading »
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