The Joy of the Truth

Mel Gibson has made the news - in the form of a media feeding frenzy - yet again. This time he is accused of making racial slurs and of possibly physically abusing his girlfriend (the mother of his nine month old baby). There is little doubt that the...

The Spring 2003 edition of Wilson Quarterly ran an article called, "What is Natural?" The author, Andrew Stark, was exploring the standards used by insurance companies to decide what treatments to cover and which ones not to cover. One of the standards...

In a previous blog post, I pointed out that abortion advocates have problems even if they call themselves pro-choice. The overemphasis of the individual's choice tends to isolate the mother from the support of the community. Our culture is pretty much...

Our culture now considers shutting down the healthy fertility system and killing babies to be basic woman's health. Long ago the abortion movement abandoned their slogan "safe, legal, and rare." They are now successfully pushing to make abortion everyday,...

The virtue of prudence gives rise to the virtue of "memory" - the habit of learning from our mistakes. The media and our decidedly anti-catholic culture continue to try to place blame on Pope Benedict and the bishops for the sex scandals. People who look...