The Joy of the Truth

I was talking to my mom about politics yesterday. We were sharing our frustration with all of the negative ads that seem to be hitting a crescendo in the last week before the election. We were also sharing our incredulity at the number of Catholics and...

Are decisions of conscience private moral choices upon which nobody else should tread? Our culture seems to think so. However, the moral conscience always develops in the context of community as we seek objective moral truth together. The fact that our...

In a recent issue of our local newspaper, Daniel J. McCarty, PhD, wrote an opinion piece entitled Abortion is a public health issue. He makes the following argument: To make any headway in the abortion debate it is essential that we move away from the...

Claims by the Catholic Church that in vitro fertilization and other "new birth technologies" treat children as a commodity to be bought and sold are often met with scorn. After all, parents who desire to have children are always motivated by love, right?...

What is woman's health? The general assumption is that "Woman's health" is defined by the triad of abortion, contraception and invitro fertilization. However, I have yet to hear exactly how killing babies and shutting down a woman's fertility system can...