Australia’s Conscience Battle
Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:06 AM
Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, Australia, has warned Catholic hospitals might be forced to shut their maternity and emergency wards.
The reason: A bill now being debated in the state legislature that would force hospitals to perform abortions or refer patients who request them to other institutions that will.
Archbishop Hart said yesterday, “In the worst-case scenario, if a government is... READ MORE
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A Saint on Broadway
Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:51 AM
“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
The New York area has been seeing ads for Broadway’s A Man for All Seasons on Broadway. Now Amanda Shaw and Nathaniel Peters give the play two thumbs up at First Things blog. And in doing so, they provide an excellent critique of the excesses in... READ MORE
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Reading in Good Conscience
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:42 PM
Praise from Father Richard John Neuhaus is high praise indeed.
Here’s what Father Neuhaus has to say in the January issue of First Things about the new book by Legionary Father Thomas Williams, “Knowing Right from Wrong: A Christian Guide to Conscience” (with thanks to The Catholic Conscience blog, which posted Father Neuhaus’s comments in an entry Jan. 3):
“You may have run into... READ MORE
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