"The task of medicine is to care even when it cannot cure."
Category: bioethics
At the Intersection of Faith and Birth Control
Birth control and the Church famously do not get along. Everyone knows this, even down to Google. But few people are willing to ask "why?"
True Gift
Though I've seen donated livers malfunction again and again due to detrimental behaviors, seeing yet another wasted, abused, mistreated donated liver is where I learned true gift.
A Communion of Saints
We are each surrounded by a communion of saints, living and deceased, in our daily lives. We are never fighting the battle alone, however much it may feel like it.
Pope Art
Ok, Stingl, Johnson, Pabst, and people who think making a condom portrait out of someone many people deeply respect is a great way to spark a civil conversation about AIDS, let's talk.
The Little Ones
As Jesus' hands and feet in the world today, we have a responsibility to our neighbor to be the vessel of mercy, the conduit of compassion, the outpouring of love. Disgust, disdain, and deluding ourselves into thinking we could never understand this other person leaves no room for love.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby: What’s it all about?
So, how is covering women’s sterilization and not men’s a war on women? Where’s the complaints on men’s reproductive rights?
