The Teaching of the Church on the Ethics of COVID Vaccines
In recent weeks, I have encountered scores of people who are confused about Church teaching with...
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Tag: ethics
Daily Catholic Quote from James Nolan
“Engagement describes an attitude, a commitment, as well as the day-to-day activities of a calling...
Read MorePlacing People Over Profits
Short-term profits and “pay for performance” carry far more weight in our capitalistic system than does “doing the right thing” and placing people over profits. Truly, the current hallmark of capitalism is making a profit and...
Read MoreDefunding Planned Parenthood
February has been a momentous month in Washington with respect to defending innocent human life from abortion. On the negative side, last Friday [February 18, 2011] President Barrack Obama rescinded a 2008 executive order by...
Read MoreTurning Away From the Abyss
Dr. Peter Kreeft, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College and a Contributing Writer to the Integrated Catholic Life, wrote an important book a number of years back titled, Back to Virtue, in which he argues...
Read MoreDoing the Right Thing at Work
James Nolan earned a J.D., UCLA School of Law and a M.A. in Theology, Washington Theological Union. He is the program coordinator of the Arupe Program in Social Ethics for Business, the program coordinator of the Woodstock...
Read MoreThe Practice of Medicine Cannot be Isolated from the Truth
“The Practice of Medicine Cannot be Isolated from the Truth!” An ICL Conversation with Dr. Theresa Deisher SEATTLE — The culture we live in is under assault. Nowhere are the battles more clearly drawn than in the world of...
Read MoreTo Be Human
SEATTLE — The opening session at the 79th annual Catholic Medical Association conference in Seattle was delivered by Dr. Josef Seifert and was entitled “Christian Anthropology, Connecting a Proper Anthropology with Proper...
Read MoreEthical Lines Being Drawn in Cloning Debate
SEATTLE — What does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question. The Discovery Institute played host to a discussion of what it means to be human as a prelude to the 79th annual educational conference now underway in Seattle...
Read MoreCatholic Physicians Gather in Seattle
SEATTLE — I am covering this week’s 79th Annual Educational Conference of the Catholic Medical Association in Seattle. The theme of the conference is “Restoring the Integrity of Medicine: An Imperative for a...
Read MoreAn Ignoble Prize for Medicine
In 1949, an enormous controversy was ignited when the Nobel Foundation awarded its Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr. Antonio Egas Moniz for developing the technique of prefrontal leucotomy, popularly known as a...
Read MoreIs Human Life Worth a Jigger of Scotch?
Cape Royds, Antarctica is a most inhospitable place. Temperatures drop to -50 Fahrenheit and high winds produce blinding storms. The only inhabitants in this godforsaken region are penguins who, by their incessant squawking,...
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