While the practices of body-part harvesting at Planned Parenthood are horrific, the role of federally funded medical researchers at some of the country’s most prestigious universities and hospitals must also be investigated by Congress.
Even if a definitive connection is made between the virus and birth defects such as microcephaly, contraception isn’t an effective or moral solution.
According to the German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper, the “wisdom of the West” expresses the sum total of what man “ought to” be.
In the twenty years since the publication of Deal Hudson’s marvelous book Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction, the eclipse of Greek and Christian ideas about happiness by the pursuit of pleasure, of “well-feeling” rather than “well-being,” has only advanced.
With the New Year and the Year of Mercy begun, last year’s Synod of the Family seems like old news.
Once it became clear that I was returning to the Church (a story for another time), I set out to study the Catechism, along with as much Catholic theology and philosophy as I could get.
This semester I am teaching a basic undergraduate class in social theory, and the text we use (Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots, The Basics, Ritzer and Stepinsky) presents many “key concepts” in the field.
As Congress began hearings last week to examine the federal laws guiding the procurement and sale of fetal tissue for medical research, the focus has remained on the role Planned Parenthood plays in harvesting this tissue.
Putin’s larger goals are to effectively destroy NATO and the EU, and return Europe to an age of nation states—to fundamentally change the security structure of the post-Cold War world
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 28 about whether there is a “constitutional right” to same-sex “marriage.”
