Here is my nightmare. It is that, had I been sent by a similarly astute editor to investigate the persecution of Jews in 1930s Germany, I would have confronted the same situation. I would have been begged, by the Jews themselves, not to make things worse for them. http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/apocalyptic-egypt.html Read more

The Roe Court’s suppression of a foundational question—who is the law for—means that the decision could be overturned by any of several feticide cases that could reach the current Court. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7735/?utm_source=RTA+Bradley+Paradox+of+Persons&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

In the signing speech for his executive orders, Obama, referencing the children flanking him but including by inference the nation’s children, said, “What we should be thinking about is our responsibility to care for them, to shield them from harm.” For once, I agree with the president. But those words — coming from a man who seems fine with some 3,000 children dying daily in the country’s abortion clinics and who, through the contraceptive mandate, intends to coerce conscientious objectors... Read more

In 2000, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was asked to identify the biggest change he had seen in his 40-year political career. Moynihan, a man of unusual sagacity, experience, and perspective, responded this way: “The biggest change, in my judgment, is that the family structure has come apart all over the North Atlantic world.” This change has occurred in “an historical instant,” Moynihan said. “Something that was not imaginable 40 years ago has happened.” http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4930/pub_detail.asp Read more

Pro-lifers need to better understand the history of the pro-life movement and what Roe did to it. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7679/?utm_source=RTA+Williams+Reason+to+Criticize+Roe&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, the promise that legal abortion would guarantee fewer out-of-wedlock births, less child abuse, and lower crime rates remains unfulfilled. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7630/ Read more

A feminism that promotes abortion as the key to women’s freedom does not help us flourish, preserve our dignity, or protect us from evils. We must support women so that the “choice” between life and abortion is no longer difficult because life is the natural choice. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7677/?utm_source=RTA+Italiano+New+Feminism&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

As a child growing up in a Muslim family, I constantly heard my mother, other relatives and neighbors wish for the death of Jews, who were considered our darkest enemy. Our religious tutors and the preachers in our mosques set aside extra time to pray for the destruction of Jews. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/opinion/global/ayaan-hirsi-ali-morsis-comments-on-jews.html Read more

As Fr. Neuhaus reminded us, we must persist—argue and write, advocate and march, vote and repeal and propose, counsel and console—“until every human being created in the image and likeness of God is protected in law and cared for in life.” Until then, “we shall not weary, we shall not rest. And, in this the great human-rights struggle of our time and all times, we shall overcome.” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7675/?utm_source=RTA+Anderson+PD+Symposium+on+Roe&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

I recently concluded my second visit to Cuba in eighteen months. On my way out, I asked the airline official why I was given the luxury of sitting in the exit row. He smiled and replied, “The Holy Book says, ‘Do unto others what you want them to do unto you.’” When I asked him if he believed the Holy Book was from God, he laughed. “Of course! I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. Are you?” http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/11/change-afoot-in-cuba Read more