First Things: Declining Notre Dame: A Letter from Mary Ann Glendon – Mary Ann Glendon
April 27, 2009
The Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
President
University of Notre Dame
Dear Father Jenkins,
When you informed me in December 2008 that I had been selected to receive Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal, I was profoundly moved. I treasure the memory of receiving an [...]
By Robert P. George, Princeton University
Yuval Levin points out that the NIH guidelines for implementing President Obama’s deeply regrettable policy of funding research using stem cell lines created by killing human embryos include a “tiny silver lining.” Obama’s recent executive order rescinding President Bush’s August 9, 2001 executive order on the subject opened the door [...]
The original post on The Corner (NRO) by Yuval Levin can be found here – Editor
Stem Cell Rules by Yuval Levin, Ethics and Public Policy Center
When President Obama announced his new embryonic stem cell funding policy last month, he left it to the NIH to set the rules, giving them no clear guidelines or ethical [...]
Matthew Franck, Radford University
The conduct of Pepperdine’s Professor Douglas Kmiec as “house Catholic” of the Obama administration is starting to resemble a carnival freak show: “Step right up, folks, and watch the pro-life Catholic Obama supporter tie himself into knots of altogether new and fascinating shapes. Why, when he’s through, even he can’t disentangle himself!”
Weeks [...]
In the aftermath of their exchange regarding President Obama’s position on the funding of embryo destructive research involving human cloning, Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School) posed twelve questions to Robert P. George (Princeton University) regarding the policies, ethics, and science surrounding life issues, and embryo destructive research in particular. Links to Douglas Kmiec’s questions and [...]
The Catholic Thing: A Modest Proposal for Dialogue at Notre Dame – Hadley Arkes
Rev. John Jenkins, President of the University of Notre Dame, was reported to have said that he doesn’t condone President Obama’s policies, and yet he thinks it important for the president to come to Notre Dame “to engage in conversation.” Professor Hadley [...]
Matthew J. Franck, Radford University
The genesis of MoralAccountability.com, as you can see from our mission statement, lay in the disturbing phenomenon, in the 2008 presidential campaign, of self-proclaimed “pro-life” Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, and others declaring their support for the candidacy of Barack Obama. The signers of that statement set forth as one of our goals [...]
Robert P. George, Princeton University
I commend the statement published by several of my colleagues on the President’s Council on Bioethics concerning federal funding of embryo-destructive research. I share with them the conviction that each and every member of the human family, irrespective not only of race, sex, and ethnicity, but also irrespective of age, [...]
Friends:
We share with you a commitment to the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family. It is for this reason that we oppose abortion, embryo-destructive research, euthanasia, and every other form of direct killing of innocent human beings. We believe that these practices are grave injustices that no society should [...]
The Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University has posted the video recordings of the Cicero Podium Debate between Professor Hadley Arkes (Amherst College) and Professor Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School). This event took place on February 13, 2009, and was a session of the conference “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Legacy of [...]