Today, March 25, is the Feast of the Annunciation. Falling on the calendar exactly nine months before Christmas Day and the celebration of Jesus’ birth, the annunciation celebrates the conception of Jesus by the Holy...
Read MoreAre Bush and Obama both unjust? Over at dotCommonweal, Peter Nixon notes that Obama makes “Bush’s pace” look “positively dilatory,” since at least in the lead-up to the Iraq war, there was a...
Read MoreAfter teaching the principle of double effect last week, I had a student approach me this Thursday questioning whether inducing labor in Danielle Deaver’s case would qualify. My student said he was “really disturbed...
Read MoreNext weekend, Duke University will host its conference on torture, which has a very specific goal in mind: identifying that “torture is always wrong, torture does not make ‘us’ safer, and we need concrete...
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The recent events in Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to discipline the compensation...
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