In most cases, Catholic social teaching provides the correct principles for resolving complex social and economic questions, not specific policy requirements. Nathan Shlueter reviews Sam Gregg’s new book in the voice of Paul Ryan.
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Charity with a Conscience
We all have a moral obligation to use our surplus wealth to help those in need, but we should do so in a way that is effective, fair, and in accordance with our own vocations.
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First New England, Then the Nation: The Spread of Physician-Assisted Suicide
The expansion of physician-assisted suicide from the West to the East coast makes its legalization in other neighboring states much more likely.
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Euphemisms: The Modus Operandi of Death Rights Advocates
Death rights advocates can only win supporters by calling the act of killing something else.
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Kermit Gosnell: Epiphany for Birthers?
It is neither the impossibility of writing clear laws nor our inability to witness abortion that stops us from making it illegal. Instead it is the will to kill for convenience that drives some people to sustain the fiction that human life begins at birth.
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Abortion After Tiller
A new documentary on late-term abortion providers shows us that the abortion debate is much more about why life is valuable than about when human life begins.
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Direct Killing as Intentional Killing
True doctors and abortionists are different kinds of persons because they perform different acts as they carry out different proposals: the one, a proposal to remove a non-viable child to save the mother; the other, to kill that child for the mother’s benefit.
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Law’s Logic at the End of Life
To its detriment, Howard Ball’s new book on end-of-life law focuses more on the emotions and biases of the law’s defenders than on law’s history and content.
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Science and the Politics of Personhood
Science can and should help determine sound public policy on matters that involve basic human rights.
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The GOP and Social Issues: Sophomoric Arguments at the Wall Street Journal
By discarding its support for life, marriage, and religious freedom, the GOP, contrary to what some party members think, will doom itself to minority status.
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Respecting Uncle Jack: On Death With Dignity
A new effort to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide in Massachusetts reminds us that we are not our own to dispose of at will.
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A Eugenics Common Sense?
Calling fetuses defective if they are prenatally diagnosed with genetic conditions foreshadows a dangerous path toward eugenics.
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Franciscan, Ave Maria, and Obamacare
Two Catholic universities’ decisions to drop student health-care plans show Obamacare’s long-term goal: Force Americans to choose government-subsidized plans over no insurance at all.
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Catholic Social Teaching and the Ryan Budget
Paul Ryan’s budget plan does not violate principles of Catholic social teaching; it is one prudent application of them.
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Judging Human Worth
The failure to grasp the implications of intrinsic human worth plagues arguments for physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
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Purpose, Palliative Care, and Respect for Human Life
Aiding the deliberate destruction of human life has no place in the doctor’s job description.
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In Defense of Capital Punishment
If one accepts the legitimacy of punishment and the principle of proportionality, then it is impossible to claim that capital punishment is intrinsically wrong.
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Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life
As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein.
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Help the Sick and Reduce the Debt: The Moral Economy of the Health-Care Debate
The health-care debate presents us with a moral imperative to solve an economic problem, but how we solve this economic problem has moral implications: allowing individuals and families greater freedom to choose among treatment options in a market that drives down costs, or establishing centralized control that makes utilitarian calculations of the worth of different people’s lives.
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Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival
Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion.
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Repelling the Attack on Conscience
A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience
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Europe’s Choice on Conscience Protection
A new resolution before Europe's leading human rights council attacks conscience and community.
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How the New Health Care Law Endangers Conscience
The new health care law has endangered longstanding protections on conscience. We must act to address them or risk creating a dangerous precedent.
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Liberalism and Higher Education
Sometimes a defense of shared liberal values can become the partisan promotion of one of liberalism's strands.