Culture of Death

March 2024

March 09, 2024
          Winners Unions Public teachers People with student loan debt People...

December 2022

December 09, 2022
A few years ago, my creeping moral unease with major pharmacy chains was galvanized by...

November 2019

November 01, 2019
In a time when fear holds so much sway, when violence is so often touted...

August 2019

August 04, 2019
Every time news breaks of another public shooting, I've come to have the same sinking...

March 2018

March 07, 2018
With every ritual post-shooting "national discussion," I grow more weary of saying the same things,...
March 04, 2018
In his weekly appearance on the PBS NewsHour, and his frequent role of sensible centrist,...

October 2017

October 26, 2017
When I first heard reports about an undocumented teenager's appeal for an abortion, my heart...
October 03, 2017
This is a commentary that has become all too routine. My colleagues and I here...

May 2017

May 07, 2017
As the congressional battle lines over health care are drawn yet again, Republicans have been...

October 2016

October 09, 2016
As I sat down to watch Tuesday's vice-presidential debate, knowing that much has already been made...

April 2016

April 17, 2016
A recent NPR story on pre-natal detection of the effects of the Zika virus caught...

September 2015

September 17, 2015
There is a timely yet potentially endangered bill making its way from the House to...

May 2015

May 14, 2015
This Sunday (Mothers' Day, coincidentally or not), a shocking juxtaposition appeared in my facebook feed,...

April 2015

April 03, 2015
Two years ago the community choir I sing with in Toronto put on a concert...

December 2014

December 27, 2014
The word "solemn" has a range of meaning that borders on the paradoxical.  Most commonly,...
December 21, 2014
This summer, as accounts were unfolding of the forced exodus of Iraqi Christians from Mosul and...

February 2014

February 09, 2014
Recently I wrote a critique of the Pro-Life movement, suggesting that it was in the...

November 2013

November 12, 2013
Attending daily Mass this morning, I was reminded of two observances taking place today, in...

October 2013

October 18, 2013
I must confess, I am a beat behind.  Partly for personal reasons, partly for stylistic...

April 2013

April 26, 2013
English Catholic priest Fr. Michael Murphy, commenting in The Tablet following the US Senate's rejection of...

February 2013

February 01, 2013
Throughout the whole gun-control debate one of the arguments against increased gun control was the...

December 2012

December 21, 2012
President Obama got it right: we can't tolerate this anymore. In his speech at Newtown's...

September 2012

September 11, 2012
My wife called me shortly before 9:00 am to tell me that something frightening was...

August 2012

August 06, 2012
That line, from Leonard Cohen's haunting song, "The Future," has been replaying in my mind...
August 04, 2012
Richard E. Pates, bishop of Des Moines, has an excellent essay in America on how...

July 2012

July 16, 2012
Voting in any election is, so to speak, a matter of choosing "the lesser of...
July 09, 2012
In light of Indiana's continued attempt to ban funding to Planned Parenthood for women's health...

March 2012

March 16, 2012
As explosive a combination of topics as this appears to be, I am aiming here...

February 2012

February 15, 2012
While visiting New Orleans this past weekend, I walked into the St. Louis Cathedral at...

December 2011

December 14, 2011
In the news, we see politicians debating what we should do with Iran. The fear...
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