The Joy of the Truth

The increase of naturalist and utilitarian thinking in the medical profession is perhaps seen most clearly in the treatment of unresponsive patients. The utilitarian measure of one's "quality of life" leads to the conclusion that if a patient is...

Too often we allow the Culture of Death to frame the cultural dialogue for us. Acceptance or refusal of life sustaining or curative treatment is a valid moral discussion. The problem comes with the language we use to describe people's condition. A...

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...

The Catholic teaching on "new birth technologies" such as artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, and human cloning, is among the most vilified of Her moral stances. However, one need not search very long to see the wisdom in the Church's...

By playing with words, our culture is once again choosing a specific part of human society to dehumanize and systematically destroy. People in comas are now called "patients in a persistent vegetative state." The clear and obvious assumption of this new...