To reduce a human being to an object whose value is measured by “utility” is to destroy one of the building blocks of the democratic order – the moral truth that the American Declaration of Independence calls the “inalienable” right to “life.”
Commentary
In praise of millennials
These are the millennials that I’m proud of. Those who study or work overseas, or volunteer to serve others in this country, get to know not just the people who look and act and believe like them, but also those who do not.
More narrow gate?/ Refuse to baptize?
The latest edition of Question Corner looks at the gate to heaven and whether children born out of wedlock can be baptised.
Trusting author of our life stories
We have to accept that even with the suffering and challenges life can bring, God is writing a more wonderful story than we could imagine.
Weigel’s new book recounts “unexpected” connection to St. John Paul II
How did a Baltimore boy get connected to Pope John Paul II, and how did he come to write “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II,” published in the fall of 1999, and “The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy.” Listen to George Weigel talk about his new book, “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” on “Catholic Baltimore.
Summer’s blockbuster tales
Father Joseph Breighner shares some thoughts about two books that could be blockbusters.
A population implosion?
Catholics worried about the rise of atheism can take a short-term and a long-term approach. Right now, we need to educate our children, evangelize and respond to attacks on the faith. As for the long term, Catholic couples, can you guess?
Musing on the teeth of St. Ambrose
We clothe the skeleton of St. Ambrose in stately liturgical robes and we crown his skull with a bishop’s miter, not be macabre or “creepy,” but because we reverence his body as a place where Christ had come to dwell
‘How is your relationship with God?’
Kevin Parks, the Catholic Review’s visual journalist, shares how his harrowing battle with a brain tumor helped put faith and prayer even more in focus.
Military action against the Islamic State group?/ Protestant church once a year
Father Doyle address questions about military action against the Islamic State group and attending a Protestant church once a year.
Celebrating honors for the Catholic Review
The Catholic Review picked up 32 awards combined from the Associated Church Press, the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada, and the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association.
Who speaks for Charlie Gard?
We are morally obliged to accept treatment that offers benefit without entailing greater burdens. Catholic tradition does not teach a “vitalism” insisting that everything possible must always be done to prolong life.