With Mary Ann Glendon having declined to receive the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame —  because of the way she was being used as a way of balancing the university’s controversial and Bishop-defying decision to honor President Obama — one has to wonder exactly who Notre Dame will pick as their second choice. They will [...]

The outbreak of swine flu originating in Mexico has caused public Sunday mass celebrations in Mexico City to be canceled. Spanish announcment here, and more news here and here. (H/T Laurence England).

It seems to me clear that authoritative Catholic teaching forbids the use of torture under any circumstances. However, some hold that torture might occasionally permissible in extreme situations. As emerged recently, Deal Hudson is one of those who do not see why torture might be occasionally permitted, and he has written on this. The real [...]

The Kansas Catholic Conference (the official voice of the Catholic Church in Kansas on matters of public policy) has responded to Governor Sebelius’ veto of a bill that would significantly aid the enforcement of Kansas’ existing late-term abortion law.
Kansas, despite having one of the strictest late-term abortion laws in the country, is internationally known as [...]

There’s an an approach to immigration over at Ascent to Mount Carmel that I really don’t get:
There’s a flu epidemic in Mexico right now.  Given the United States’ weak border security, it’s only a matter of time before it reaches us.

I looked up some example statistics and found that in 2004 there were about 240 [...]

It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity: science that can heal, used to kill; education that can enlighten, used to rationalize [...]