The Joy of the Truth

New York recently past a law requiring all citizens to be organ donors unless they opt out. While Catholic moral theologians are still debating the moral rightness of organ donation, in a culture of death this new law is more than problematic. ...

Catholic voters who chose Barak Obama as president must really be kicking themselves (one would hope). While the president has done some good things so far, the death toll continues to mount. This morning President Obama overturned President Bush's ban...

The March, 2008, issue of First Things ran an excellent opinion piece by Gilbert Meilaender called The Giving and Taking of Organs. Meilaender quotes Paul Ramsey, whose The Patient as Person explored the moral ramifications of organ donation when the...

There can be no doubt that the worldview dominated by the medical profession today is utilitarianism. Utilitarians judge things according to how quickly and easily they meet current and present needs. Utilitarianism does not seek meaning in human action...

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?...