A Samson Option for Ireland’s Catholic hospitals?
National funding of health care has produced a fresh crisis in Europe. Not merely the never-ending “winter crisis” in the NHS each year, but a crisis of conscience for Catholic health care providers....
View ArticleHuckleberry Finn’s moral conscience
Few authors could spin words as well as Mark Twain, but the image of the chronicler of the Mississippi is perhaps more one of style and storytelling than of depth. We don’t read Tom Sawyer or...
View ArticleSphere sovereignty and limited (and legitimate) government
The Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper is well-known for his articulation of sphere sovereignty, and the following passage from the third volume of his Common Grace trilogy is a clear and...
View ArticleTruth, Conscience, and the (New) American Way
We live in a culture where many believe that the claims of their emotional lives trump all other considerations. This sentimental understanding of the self is driven by our culture’s obsession with...
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