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Richard Doerflinger

Confusions about blessings

March 31, 2021
By Richard Doerflinger
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

The church cannot change its teaching for self-styled “liberals” or “conservatives,” as it must serve the designs of God found in Scripture and fully revealed by Christ.

Conscience and its enemies

September 24, 2019
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Should doctors and nurses be forced to take part in procedures that violate their conscience? It’s a timely question. New federal regulations to enforce existing conscience protection laws are being challenged in federal courts.

Building a wall against life

February 5, 2019
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

In what Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls a “historic victory for New Yorkers,” New York has passed what may be the nation’s most extreme and irresponsible abortion law.

On not being a vegetable

October 30, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Our medical system has been giving up on far too many of these patients, prematurely ensuring their deaths based on faulty diagnoses and self-fulfilling hopeless predictions.

Good and bad ideas on church reform

September 13, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Charges against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, and those who allegedly covered up his abuses and advanced him to an advisory role at the Vatican, must be investigated and proved or disproved.

A church of sinners

August 2, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Ideas have consequences, and for decades some very bad ideas have given aid and comfort to predators inside and outside the church.

Of wedding cakes and our tenuous freedoms

June 6, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Richard Doerflinger finds rich ironies in the Supreme Court’s wedding cake ruling.

Hype and reality on family planning

May 31, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Blog, Respect Life

According to a 2016 fact sheet by the Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood affiliate, the federal government spends well over $2 billion a year on family planning, mostly through Medicaid (not affected by the regulation).

Food for thought on helpless seniors

April 4, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

The U.S. assisted-suicide movement has ridiculed slippery-slope arguments, saying we will never follow the Netherlands in approving assisted suicide for people who only have dementia. It seems we are almost there now.

Three cheers for Lucas

February 13, 2018
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary, Respect Life, Video

In a week dominated by the Winter Olympics and news of partisan combat (of course) in Washington, D.C., I am transfixed by the contagious smile of one little boy named Lucas Warren.

Encouraging news on abortion

December 7, 2017
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Supporters of legalized abortion used to agree that abortion should be “rare.” They don’t say it so much nowadays. Maybe they now realize that reducing abortions will require discouraging abortion.

What is sex for?

November 22, 2017
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

The root problem here is a self-centered notion of freedom that “frees” individuals from respecting others, if such respect would get in the way of their own pleasure.

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