My column in today’s Headline Bistro Princeton University philosopher Peter Singer, who famously advocates the ethical right of parents to kill their newborn children for any reason, recently has written an article in The New York Times proposing a mass self-extinction of humanity through collective sterilization. (Read it here). Citing the increasingly discredited global warming/climate [...]
Archive for the ‘Dignity’ Category
Peter Singer: Nihilism Gone Wild
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Dignity, Eugenics, tagged Eugenics, Nihilism, Peter Singer, Sterilization on June 15, 2010 | 16 Comments »
The Boys of Summer
Posted in Dignity, tagged autism, Baseball on June 14, 2010 | 8 Comments »
In answer to the oft-repeated slur that pro-lifers care only for the fetus and not for the child beyond the womb, I offer the following as a refreshing break from the weighty subject matter that is regrettably routine on this blog. I’m in my third year of coaching little league baseball, having done so on [...]
More Debate With Dr. Becker on the Phoenix Abortion
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on May 23, 2010 | 40 Comments »
This exchange is the latest with Pediatric Cardiologist, Judith Becker, M.D. whose opinion is that Sr. Margaret McBride made the right call in signing off on an abortion in a patient with Pulmonary Hypertension. Dr. Judith Becker Since I am being quoted in this string I feel I should speak for my self as I [...]
More Debate on the Phoenix Abortion
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, tagged Abortion, Margaret McBride, Phoenix, Saint Gianna Molla on May 22, 2010 | 40 Comments »
A recent graduate of my alma mater writes a few comments to tell me that she was taught in college that Catholic doctrine actually allows for abortion to save the life of the mother. Her other, more extended comment is here, along with my reply. Erin Frankly, it comes down to this: A pregnant woman [...]
Pope Benedict XVI: Love & Truth
Posted in Dignity, Family, tagged Love, Pope Benedict XVI, Sentimentalism on May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I must confess that I devour books by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. He has a style of writing that leaves me feeling as though I have just been on a weekend retreat. In recent comments to the Roman Rota (The Supreme Court of the Church), the Pope spoke of the role truth [...]
Women Respond to Fatherlessness
Posted in Dignity, Family, tagged Fatherlessness on May 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The comments on the Growing Fatherlessness post have been an occasion of deep, deep thought for me, and prayer for one commenter in particular, New Divorcee. I learned several years ago to simply shut up and listen, actively listen to women when they speak as they have here. This is a topic that deserves more [...]
Are You My Mother?
Posted in Dignity, tagged Are You My Mother, IVF, Surrogate Motherhood on May 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A favorite of mine from first grade (1966) and now being read by my first grade daughter, this classic by P.D. Eastman tells the story of a bird who hatches when its mother is away, and of the search for its mother. The bird queries several animals and machines before being reunited with and introduced [...]
Autism: Love’s Lesson
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, tagged autism, Family, Love, Marriage on May 2, 2010 | 9 Comments »
This morning I’ll be the keynote speaker for the annual communion breakfast at Saint Francis of Assisi Parish in Mount Kisco, New York. I was asked by the pastor, Fr. Steven Clark, to deliver a few appropriate remarks concerning where we are in the mushrooming autism epidemic. This isn’t a clinical seminar, it’s a communion [...]
Glorify God In Your Body
Posted in Dignity on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The Marquis de Sade would be very pleased today. The body has been totally emptied of moral worth or significance. Today it’s used as a billboard for advertising.” Strong words from a great observer of contemporary culture, Mr. William Holland. Bill and I have been friends since college and I have always found him to [...]
Resurrection, Authority, Obedience
Posted in Dignity, Uncategorized on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Gospel accounts of the Resurrection are stunning in their detail and in their relevance to the Church today. The women, faithful at the cross while all of the men (save John) scattered, were the first to receive the vision of the Resurrected Christ, the Good News. The men were dubious when told the women’s [...]
Holy Saturday
Posted in Dignity on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings From an ancient homily for Holy Saturday The Lord’s descent into the underworld Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is [...]
Good Friday
Posted in Dignity on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings. From the Catecheses by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop The power of Christ’s blood If we wish to understand the power of Christ’s blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. “Sacrifice a lamb without blemish,” commanded Moses, “and sprinkle its [...]
The Dignity of Men
Posted in Dignity, tagged Dignity, familiaris consortio, Family, Pope John Paul II on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The host of life issues, riotous and varied as they are, share a very simple common thread. We have forgotten who we are and what it is we are supposed to be about. Perhaps the most lost among us are the men. That’s a tough one for me to choke out, but fearfully accurate. We [...]
The Lucky 7%
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, tagged Down Syndrome on March 3, 2010 | 37 Comments »
93% of Down syndrome babies are aborted. Meet some of the lucky 7% who have blessed our lives. Click Here Many thanks to Bethany for sending this video along.
