Tag: Healthcare

Needed Instruments of Peace

Needed Instruments of Peace

[ 2 ] October 21, 2012 AD |

In our current election cycle, perhaps more than any other in the last forty years, we have two candidates for President with stark, contrasting views about the role of government in the working of society. The differences, one would think, would leave a very clear choice for Catholics to make in going to the polls. [...]

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Morality in Medicine: An Interview with Paul Fox, M.D.

Morality in Medicine: An Interview with Paul Fox, M.D.

[ 4 ] July 25, 2012 AD |

The Church provides a framework for a physician that is marvelously adapted to the realities of life and death. No-one would want to prescribe drugs without standard doses. Why would anyone want to operate in such a morally fraught field as medicine without a standard of conduct?

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Free to Exercise

Free to Exercise

[ 3 ] June 29, 2012 AD |

There Peter was, chained, with two guards on either side of him. More guards were standing watch outside the gate. His crime? He was a part of a religious sect that followed the teachings of a man named Jesus, whom they profess had risen from the dead. According to the laws of Rome, Peter’s crime [...]

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