Monthly Archives March 2005

Out of Left Field or Out of Touch With Reality?

I’m less enthused about Jesse Jackson’s public support of Terri Schiavo than Jerry is. The reverend is, in my opinion, a media whore and skipper of the "rent a mob" crew and Al Sharpton is his first mate. Want to present a lot of angry faces […]

Right Out of Left Field

Some folks have wondered what the Terri Schiavo case will mean for the conservative cause, including Ales Rarus regular, DLW (see March 28, 2005); perhaps we should pay a little more attention to leftists like the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nat Hentoff before labeling Terri’s cause a right-wing […]

Pro-life Religious Community for Men Being Founded

Fr. Pavone of Priests for Life has some very good news to share with us for Holy Week: Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, officially announced today that he is founding a pro-life community dedicated to the formation and training of priests, deacons, brothers and seminarians who […]

The Politics of Life and Death or Right and Left?

Michael Gallaugher at Christian Conservative really hit a nerve with this post about Terri Schiavo. I’ve never seen so many comments generated from so little text. Some of the comments really took me by surprise. Not only were commenters ill- or misunformed about Terri’s condition, they also showed a disturbing inability to […]

Life, Death, and God’s Sovereignty

Theomorph, our resident atheist, has asked an astute question in a comment to yesterday’s post about Terri Schiavo. "If suicide or murder are wrong because they contravene God’s alleged desires for the course of a life, how can you not apply the same reasoning to technological attempts to extend […]