Commentary Is modern medicine stripping us of our humanity? Without its amazing technical advances some of us would not be alive to discuss the question. But in its materialist, spiritually impoverished understanding of the human being, as ethicist Charles Camosy puts it in his new book, “Losing Our Dignity,” medicine is at risk of reducing…
Western Disenchantment and the Cost of Separating Faith From Reason
Commentary It’s often said that ideas have consequences. Ordinary men and women intuitively understand that good ideas yield good results, while bad ideas produce poor decisions and tragic consequences. Over the last century, avant-garde ideas about the nature of “progress” have produced a compulsive desire for intellectual certainty and immediate self-gratification. Today, historical experience and…
Thoughts on Work and the Work Ethic
Commentary Most of us who grow up in middle-class America are inculcated with what Karl Marx called “bourgeois” values. One of the fundamental values was that when we reached adulthood, we would go to work. I don’t recall this being explicitly taught. It seemed to be the natural order of things that we unconsciously absorbed…
The Virtue of Chastity
Commentary Chastity, defined herein as refraining from intimate sexual relationships outside of the marriage covenant, has ebbed and flowed in acceptance over the centuries. It attracts respect from some, scorn from others. In a predominantly Christian culture, chastity is deeply respected as one of the greatest virtues. We in America, due to the heavy influence…
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