A Second Reply to Dr. Elizabeth Rex: IVF and ET Are Still Immoral
(Bioethicist Dr. Elizabeth Rex has responded to my initial response, and the reader may find such on LifeSite. You can read the debate here....
Reflections on the March for Life
I’ve been attending the March for Life here in Ottawa, Canada since its inception in the late nineties – they mentioned that this last...
The Pope, Pharma, and Moral Imperatives
What’s the difference between God and a doctor?
God doesn’t think He’s a doctor.
That used to be funny…
God, of course, knows medicine, having made...
Humanities, Technology and the Martian
On a news report the other evening, it was mentioned that enrolment in the humanities (philosophy, literature, history, to say nothing of theology) has...
Catholic Glasgow
On an intersection in Scotland’s largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the ‘King’s Men’ in...
Promethean Pelagius
Before we leave 2018 behind, we should mark the 1600th anniversary of the official condemnation, of the heresy of Pelagius, in 418 A.D. by Pope...
Childless Despair and Childlike Hope
This rather sad article recounts the growing movement of deliberate childlessness, in the United States, and beyond. Or, as those in the movement like...
Hamburg, Hiroshima and Hamas: Innocents in War and the Dignity of Human Life
On October 11, 1649, the troops of Oliver Cromwell, who was then 'Lord Protector of England', stormed the besieged village of Wexford, Ireland. The...
The True Reformation of Charles Borromeo
The memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) commemorates one of the great pillars - along with Saint Robert Bellarmine, Philip Neri and countless others...
Saint John of Avila, Apostle of Andalusia
Today's optional memorial as we continue the Easter season (alleluia!) commemorates Saint John of Avila (1499 – 1569), a contemporary of his fellow Spaniards,...
