Sound Science vs. Moral Values

Okay, let me get this straight. If I’m reading President Obama’s quote correctly, the only good science is immoral science. Below is a excerpt from a Yahoo News blurb about the president’s reversal of former President Bush’s ban on embryonic stem cell research. His claim, is that a moral choice Read more…

Check your slippers

I’d gone to bed at 2am and risen at 6am for many days in a row, trying to keep up with the list of demands requiring my attention. This morning I decided to “sleep in” because I’d lost an hour to daylight savings time and so instead rose at 6:30am Read more…

When I get around to it

“When I get around to it.” How often do we find ourselves saying that about things we know we should do, but for which we just don’t manage to make the time? Today there was another development in the case of the NFL players and their friend lost at sea. Read more…

We can do all things

This morning, I ran across this passage in Scripture: I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me; but you had no opportunity. Not that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content. I Read more…

Hardline vs. softline

As our new president begins to fill his cabinet and gather his czars, I’ve been thinking more and more about the weight this places on the Catholic bishops of the United States. I know that some of them, like Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, feel they’re called Read more…