When some of my ethics clients describe their frustration in dealing with infertility, they often borrow a phrase from childhood: “I feel like I’m about to cry uncle.” The right way to translate that admission? […]
On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the EVE therapy system, this artificial womb, after being successfully tested […]
Dear Vice-President Vance: Your statement—“I realize that there is a part of me—the best part of me—that takes its cue from Catholicism”—is music to my ears. In fact, it cued me to introduce you to […]
Rewind. It’s 1970, and Walter Conkrite sounds this demographic siren on CBS Nightly News: “The stakes in this battle are far greater than any other we have ever fought. . . . The experts we interviewed […]
Dr. René Frydman is best known by French citizens as the “medical father” of their first in vitro fertilization baby (1982). Medical researchers, on the other hand, laud him for his quadruple decades of pioneering […]
Have you been in a classroom, restaurant or airport lately? Have you noticed how everyone’s faces are robotically glued to their glowing screens? Media conglomerates—Meta, X, Google, Snapchat, TikTok—have created a world for our youth […]
You’ve heard the maxim, ‘Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have bad consequences.’ In my estimation, Theological Ethics of Life: Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges (2022)i is rife with bad ideas. This 530-page volume collects the […]
Recently, the Pontifical Academy for Life released a document under the English title Theological Ethics of Life: Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges.i The 530-page volume collects the Proceedings of a 2021 interdisciplinary study seminar held in […]
On his first day in office, January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the executive order “Preventing and Combatting Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.”i Immediately, this directive set in motion the […]
REWIND: It’s August. My childhood chums and I are nine going on ten. We’re running through lawn sprinklers trying to escape the stifling heat that visits our Midwest town every ‘Dog Days’ season. We aren’t […]
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