You might remember that in February we published an interview with Win Riley , the director of the forthcoming Walker Percy: A Documentary Film . Well, the forthcoming has finally come. If you’re in New York City, you can catch a screening of the film this Saturday , presented by Crossroads . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Ricochet. The Great Lie is the new book of essays on totalitarianism edited by my friend Flagg Taylor. UPDATE: Professor Taylor’s own words on the book, with some excellent material in the comments. . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you in the part of the country where Eastern Catholicism is mostly to be found (New Jersey and Maryland straight across to Michigan, for the most part), a concert series you will want to know about: The seminary choir from the Blessed Paul Gojdich Seminary in Presov, . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. Here we go again.The SF Chronicle has a front page story about the fourth human subject to receive an embryonic stem cell-derived injection of cells. From the story:A Bay Area patient who recently suffered a serious spinal cord injury and is now paralyzed from the waist down . . . . Continue Reading »
A report on an encouraging conference — attended by Leroy Huizenga, author of several recent “On the Square” articles — held by the Catholic bishops’ doctrine committee for young (untenured) Catholic theologians: Young Theologians Encouraged to Confront ‘The . . . . Continue Reading »
This should be a huge story, but isn’t. Belgian doctors have coupled euthanasia and organ harvesting—and write about it in respected medical journals. Moreover, the eligible for the euthanasia harvest are people with disabilities—such as MS—and even the mentally . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Joe Carter take on a deformed view of Biblical masculinity: My manly bona fides : I’ve spent sixteen years in the Marine Corps and sixteen seconds (cumulatively) riding bulls. I’ve spent my summers in 104-degree weather baling hay, shoeing horses, . . . . Continue Reading »
In my first article against euthanasia/assisted suicide—published in Newsweek in 1993—that legalization would inevitably lead to organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” As I have reported here and elsewhere, the harvest is now being reaped in Belgium—and doctors there . . . . Continue Reading »
When future historians look back on the strange beliefs held during our era, they’ll chuckle at the thought that so many people believed the mind is identical to the brain. As philosopher Bill Vallicella says , “Few philosophers nowadays would maintain the bald thesis that the mind is . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the twenty physician members of Congress , Rep. Phil Roe (an unusual name for an OB/GYN, no?) helped save a man’s life at the Charlotte-Douglas airport yesterday. Also, of the twenty physicians in Congress, eighteen are Republicans. Of the Republicans, twelve are in . . . . Continue Reading »
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