A student at the medical school at the University of Manitoba has been threatened with loss of graduation if he will not offer abortion as an option to a patient. In terms of the legal requirement, the issue is whether or not a physician is required to refer a patient for an abortion. The answer is no.
The claim being made by advocates of gay marriage is that the ban of gay marriage is simply about prejudice. They are wrong.
Aristide's "liberation theology" became Haiti's problem. Plus the case against anger in politics.
It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court's barely concealed hostility to the free exercise of religion, at least since the middle decades of the twentieth century. But in the long term, even more damage is likely to be done by the influence of ideas advocated by a cluster of political and legal theorists in the academy. For these writers, religious liberty itself is a pernicious idea.
A small but growing number of left-leaning scholars are regularly entering the public square to talk about the important role that religion, marriage, and civic participation play in fostering the common good.
Assemblyman Tim Leslie offers a compelling argument against same-sex marriage... and has the data to back it up.
Just about every year assisted-suicide advocacy groups insist that they are on the verge of their next big legalization breakthrough.
If you attend Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame, you may be startled to notice, as you walk up to take communion, that your steps take you directly over the final resting place of Orestes A. Brownson (1803-1876).
In the face of a much ballyhooed multiculturalism, Catholicism is distinct, if not unique, in its insistence on the priority of an authoritative moral community not of one's own choosing.
