A Day in the Life

I only met Ben and Anna Hatke once, around eight years ago or so. I hardly talked much with them, but I took an instant liking to them, something that is a rare occurrence with me. They are artists, acrobats, musicians, and cartoonists, the sort of people you’d like to hang around with, just to [...]

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Moral Idiots

I recently joined the Coalition for Clarity, a group of mostly Catholic bloggers opposed to torture and to those Catholics who, in defiance of clear Church teaching, defend the use of torture, whatever euphemism they adopt for it. The Coalition was founded by Erin Manning, under the inspiration of Mark Shea, who for years has [...]

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Genetically Modified Organisms: A Catholic’s Animadversions

(A guest post by Peter A. Kwasniewski of Wyoming Catholic College) Cloning and some other experimental or therapeutic procedures that constitute a direct assault on the human person’s dignity have been condemned by the Church’s Magisterium, but the case is not so clear with the genetic engineering of organisms more broadly speaking.  In the Holy [...]

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