A shocking story appeared on the front page of the New York Times yesterday regarding a small-town Kentucky woman, beloved by neighbors, with a dark past. Issabell Basic, previously known as Azra Basic, was charged in 1993 for...
Read MoreEconomists and others have consistently been warning that the housing crisis (and cascading effects on the rest of the “economic recovery”) is far from over. In particular, L. Randall Wray at Huffington Post has...
Read MoreThe goal of Catholic social teaching on the economy is to provide us with a set of principles, a set of tools that each individual and family can use to make concrete, practical decisions. How do we live as fully human persons,...
Read MoreStrictly speaking, the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine statement critiquing professor Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ’s, 2007 book, Quest for the Living God, has nothing to do with moral theology. The seven main...
Read MoreUnless you are one of the nation’s 400,000 dialysis patients, you may not know that a law passed by Congress 39 years ago provides almost entirely free dialysis to patients whose kidneys have failed, regardless of age or...
Read MoreOver at the Public Discourse, the very good Loyola Marymount philosopher Chris Kaczor has responded to a review of his recent book on abortion by another well-known philosopher, Don Marquis. While calling it “the...
Read MoreThis past July, I was asked to participate in an event honoring Bishop Peter Rosazza at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry. Bishop Peter’s ministries were marked by his commitment to Catholic young...
Read MoreIn the midst of all the breathless coverage of the economy “recovery” (is it recovering? Isn’t it? Why does this coverage sound like a pennant race in September?), and our myopic focus on the “jobs number,” the New...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court’s ruling on Westboro Baptist Church members’ right to free speech, even at funerals, is by now old news. But I was interested in this piece at the BBC. Louis Theroux filmed a documentary of the...
Read MoreHere is a story about a Belgian couple who ‘couldn’t imagine living without each other’ and so asked for euthanasia together (hat tip to Wes Smith): You heard right, you don’t have to be terminally ill to...
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