This weekend, a C.D.C. panel will likely decide which group should get the Covid-19 vaccine next. Thousands of lives hang in the balance, writes the Catholic ethicist Charles Camosy.
Charles C. Camosy
Charles C. Camosy is a professor of medical humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine and holds the Monsignor Curran Fellowship in Moral Theology at St. Joseph Seminary in New York. He is the author of eight books, including, most recently, One Church.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Is Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘kingdom of God’ different from Obama’s?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein spoke for many when she told Barrett quite directly, “The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Pope Francis’s pro-life values probably don’t match your political categories. Here’s why.
While Pope Francis has given special consideration to what some may consider liberal life issues, he has also spoken up strongly and clearly for the more traditional prolife issues.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
The abortion debate in Argentina vs. Ireland: what made the difference?
A diversity of views on abortion made for an actual debate among those who have power in Argentina.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pro-life groups have an obligation to call out Trump on immigration
The Trump administration’s border policies threaten the right to life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Sex and the Catholic college campus
There is a perception that the hook-up culture is more prevalent than it actually is.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A fearless look at the tragedy of abortion
Perhaps the most powerful pro-choice argument rests on the claim that restrictions on abortion do not actually stop abortion from happening—they only make said abortions safer. Biemans devastates the foundations of this argument.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
On pornography, U.S. Catholic bishops may find an unlikely ally in feminists
Naming it “corrosive” and a “dark” sign of contemporary American culture, the U.S. Catholic bishops approved a document this week condemning the production and use of pornography as a mortal sin.
Posted inIn All Things
Planned Parenthood’s problems go far beyond whether it sells organs
Selling body parts is not the only legal issue, and it may not even be the most important
Posted inIn All Things
Five myths in the abortion and Down syndrome debate
We should be honest as a culture about the fact that these children are killed not because they are a burden on themselves, but because having a child with Down’s doesn’t meet our expectations.