The Joy of the Truth

Last week's reflection during Eucharistic adoration was on lukewarmness. The moral life is not primarily about what we do, but about who we are becoming. What we do is important because the choices we make (and therefore the actions we perform) shape...

I just returned from the medical ethics conference. It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. The first half of the conference was a rather good dialogue about ethics counseling. It was an eye-opener about how difficult health care decisions can be,...

A friend and I are going to a medical ethics conference tomorrow. One of the featured speakers is John Hardt, Ph.D. It promises to be more frustrating than enlightening, but it is good to hear what kind of moral arguments are being forwarded in the area...

A book review of Tom Lutz's book Doing Nothing: a History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America makes the statement, Sure, it might seem that the young man who sits at home in his bedroom all day refusing to hold a traditional job appears...

A recent editorial in our local paper explored the possibility of lowering the legal drinking age in our state from 21 to 18. It's actually quite a surprising topic for the editors to bring up, considering they just completed a series on the ravages of...