As a Connecticut Catholic myself, I feel marginally qualified to comment on this item. AP reports:
Connecticut’s Roman Catholic bishops have changed course and agreed to administer emergency contraception to all rape victims at Catholic hospitals just days before a new state law requiring them to do so takes effect.
The church, which runs four of the [...]
Archive for September, 2007
30 Sep
Not exactly a profile in courage
14 Sep
Good point
The Vatican just released a response to questions from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on moral considerations involving care of patients in a “vegetative state”. It is worth reading. An excerpt:
Patients in a “vegetative state” breathe spontaneously, digest food naturally, carry on other metabolic functions, and are in a stable situation. But they are not able [...]
10 Sep
Academia and Religion
Raymond Ibrahim, in Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0, comments on the poverty of contemporary “religious studies” scholarship:
In the end, the so-called “historical” Jesus that sticks in people’s minds based on these academic distortions is little more than a liberal-minded, sexually ambiguous wandering sage, stripped, ironically, of all historical context.
Anachronism, you think? Since when did bona [...]
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