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Professor Ralph McInerny who was the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, died this morning. The story is posted on First Things by Thomas S. Hibbs and on First Thoughts by Joseph Bottum . Requiescat in Pace!

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This blog often cites articles from " Secondhand Smoke ," the blog written by Wesley J. Smith on FIRST THINGS Online. This link is to an article in the December issue of the magazine, First Things . It is a sobering article and a must read. Mr. Smith is "a Senior Fellow in Bioethics and Human Rights at the Discovery Institute, is a consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and for the Center for Bioethics and Culture" according to his byline listed at the link .

This is jaw-dropping. I just saw this . It is with great sadness, therefore, that I have concluded that I cannot accept the Laetare Medal or participate in the May 17 graduation ceremony.

This article appears in the May, 2009 edition of FIRST THINGS . It is a very thought-provoking article relating demographics and family size to the current economic morass and predicted loss of future wealth. I recommend it for your consideration.

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The late Father Richard John Neuhaus was a devoted champion of LIFE. In his memory, FIRST THINGS will publish this speech each year on the date of the Roe v. Wade decision . We would do well to read it in its entirety. “We the People” have not and will not ratify the lethal logic of Roe v. Wade . That notorious decision of 1973 is the most consequential moral and political event of the last half century of our nation’s history. It has produced a dramatic realignment of moral and political forces, led by evangelicals and Catholics together, and joined by citizens beyond numbering who know that how we respond to this horror defines who we are as individuals and as a people. Our opponents, once so confident, are now on the defensive. Having lost the argument with the American people, they desperately cling to the dictates of the courts. No longer able to present themselves as the wave of the future, they watch in dismay as a younger generation recoils in horror from the bloodletting of ...

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This "review" of the movie, "The Happening," was posted by Anthony Sacramone on the First Things >> Blog Archive . If you intend to see the movie, I suggest that YOU BACK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER AND DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW! It contains spoilers and other stuff. If, like me, you had NOT planned to see this movie, you are welcome to click the link but be advised to BACK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT DRINKING COFFEE, SODA OR ANY BEVERAGE AS YOU READ THE REVIEW! ...I wonder if Mr. Sacramone has an agent?

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus posts a wonderful essay on "theodicy" and the "God problem ." Any essay that brings in the agonies of Ivan Karamazov is well worth reading! "I try to spell out the implications of that in my book Death on a Friday Afternoon . But that book is not chiefly about theodicy. On that subject, there is another recent book that I would warmly recommend to James Wood and, if he could stifle his flippancy long enough to read it with care, to Bart Ehrman. It is David Bentley Hart’s The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? The Doors of the Sea was published in 2005 in the aftermath of the great Asian tsunami that killed an estimated 225,000 people. Throughout his reflection, Hart wrestles with the hauntingly brilliant statement of the theodicy question posed by Dostoyevsky’s Ivan Karamazov. Herewith a few of the things Hart says in this very impressive little book: “God has fashioned creatures in his image so that they might be join...

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This is an important article by Patrick C. Beeman on the future of the profession of medicine . To take a snippet from the opening of this article: Where is the profession of medicine going? Has it become simply applied biology, another “job” among equally good ways of earning a living? What kind of person should the physician be? What about bioethics? Is patient autonomy the only viable moral absolute? Oh, and—who is Dr. Edmund Pellegrino? In The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader , Tristram Engelhardt, a bellwether of bioethics, and Fabrice Jotterand, who holds a dual appointment within the University of Texas system as assistant professor of philosophy and “psychiatry and clinical sciences,” have answered these questions by offering nineteen selections from Edmund Pellegrino’s six hundred articles and twenty-four books. At one time or another, Pellegrino was director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; president of the Catholic University of America; professor of...

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First Things: On the Square >> The State Without an Executioner The New Liturgical Movement : Archdale King (Shawn Tribe) The New Liturgical Movement : Truly Inclusive Music (Jeffrey Tucker) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English : Saint Paul of the Cross Whispers in the Loggia : The Road Ahead

Charlotte Was Both : Amy Wellborn's "Open Liturgy Thread" from Nationals Stadium First Things: On the Square >> Benedict in America: As of Thursday (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus) WDTPRS : Petrus: Archbp. of Lima (Peru) on Communion in the Hand - NO ! WDTPRS : Good TLM News in Georgia (USA): 18 People Expected, 117 Came

Charlotte Was Both : Music in the WaPo (the liturgical music featured at Masses - something initially brought up by Jeffrey Tucker often - gets a major story!) The New Liturgical Movement : Washington Post on the Music Wars The New Liturgical Movement : Requiem Mass (Usus Antiquior) at the Cathedral in Siena The Black Biretta : Vatican Soil: the Embassy of the Holy See (a.k.a. Apostolic Nunciature) First Things: On the Square - Who Will Save Catholic Schools?

First Things: On the Square - Fr. Richard John Neuhaus on "Listening to Benedict" The New Liturgical Movement : Adoremus Bulletin , April, Online (Jeffrey Tucker has some nice things to say about this issue) WDTPRS : Quaeritur: permanent deacons and the TLM (Fr. Zuhlsdorf reminds us once again) Creative Minority Report : Man of Steele

Charlotte Was Both : Where Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix spent part of Easter Sunday Charlotte Was Both : New Evangelization (Young people interested in Pope Benedict) First Things: On the Square : Watch EWTN--and This Space--for the Papal Visit WDTPRS : Poll in Florida about sacred music for Mass