When I entered the Church early in 1978 there was little enough discussion of natural family planning or of the Church’s teaching that use of contraceptives violated the law of God. The Couple to Couple League had been founded just a few years earlier, and NFP was not a subject even written about much in … Read more
This article originally appeared on Ethika Politika Lately Americans have been talking more explicitly than usual about what is called American exceptionalism. For most of my lifetime not much was said about this directly. Apparently most people just took it for granted and assumed that everyone believed it. But now politicians think they have to … Read more
This article originally appeared on Ethika Politika One of the demands made by the Occupy Wall Street movement has been the ending of the legal fiction of personhood for business corporations. This desire on the part of the Occupy movement is healthy, but the issue is actually more complicated than might at first appear. For corporate … Read more