Shifting paradigms and the transvaluaton of all values
I do believe that an ancient Greek myth is playing itself out for us in our fair country these days. Some of my readers may recall the Greek myth of the god Cronus, or as he is known in Roman mythology, Saturn. Cronus has often been confused with and conflated into Chronos, the primordial Greek [...]
Again and again, those of us who struggle to protect the most vulnerable, the weakest, among us, the unborn child, have pointed out that the same logic being advanced by supporters of abortion can be used to argue that it should be permissible to kill a newborn child. Now we have a pair of philosophers [...]
The responses to the HHS mandate requiring all employers to provide health insurance to their employees that includes coverage for contraception, sterilization, and access to abortifacients are changing day to day, so in the way of an update I offer the following. The most interesting to me is the development over at the Catholic Health [...]
Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord. (Isaiah 1:18, NAB) It’s probably safe to say that trying to convince someone on a political issue is one of the most frustrating things you could try to do. Why is that? I’m convinced that this is so because most popular arguments for and against [...]
In 2005, there was some debate over the issue of what, exactly, is the Catholic teaching on the subject of “brain death”. I was caught up in it because my employer at the time, Ignatius Press, was (and still is) the publisher of the magazine the Catholic World Report. An article that appeared in the [...]
