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The science of stewardship: Sin, sustainability, and GM foods
The flip side of concern about the earth’s climate and global sustainability is angst about population growth. Where these issues collide most prominently is in the question of food. Can the earth’s food supply possibly keep pace with a global population estimated by some to top 8 billion by the year 2020 and 9 billion by 2030? A recent article in the journal Science examined the challenge of sustainably feeding a new generation of inhabitants. As the authors pose the problem:Health care rights, and wrongs
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi promoted passage of Sunday’s health care reform bill, she invoked Catholic support. However, those who assert the right to health care and seek greater responsibility for government as the means to that end, are simply wrong. This legislation fails to comport with Catholic social principles.What Griffiths said: Self-interest, rightly understood
We need to learn more and more to properly relate love of ourselves and our interests to that of our fellow human beings, and subordinate all of these loves to God Himself.Two cheers for the bishops of England and Wales
What a difference 15 years can make. Back in 1996, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales issued a document, The Common Good and Catholic Social Teaching, to address political issues facing Britain at the time. Leaving aside the incoherence that characterized much of that text, a distinctly skeptical tone about market economies pervaded the document – almost to the point of being an anti-Thatcherite screed.Olympians behaving badly
The moral crisis that pervades sports is part of a larger social breakdown that is compounded by a culture that is afraid to speak about truth and virtue — much less moral evil and sin.Joseph E. Stiglitz: An economist in freefall
His latest offering, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy frays when he claims the origins of the current financial mess lie in the economic liberalization which began in the late 1970s.Obama’s nuclear promise: Too little, but not too late
Addressing what’s been called a licensing “bottleneck” and loosening up the nuclear power market in the United States needs to be the top priorityFreedom in free fall
When a compelling measure of economic freedom shows the United States in free fall, then every conscientious citizen should take notice. We’re headed in the wrong direction.Pope Benedict’s defense of authentic equality
Once again the mild-mannered but intellectually fierce Pope Benedict XVI has provoked criticism over remarks that challenge the secular establishment’s provincial understanding of the world. In his speech to the bishops of England and Wales in Rome last week, during their ad limina visit, the Pope encouraged them to fight against so-called equality legislation.Human dignity, dark skin, and Negro dialect
Black History Month is a time not only to honor our past but also to survey the progress yet to be made. Why does the black underclass continue to struggle so many years after the civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King dreamt about an America where women and men are evaluated on the basis of character rather than skin color.Will America help the persecuted Copts of Egypt?
The violent persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt is becoming harder for the free world to ignore. This is true thanks to thousands of Copts who recently expressed their decades of frustration and anguish in street protests across the globe. One moving example took place in West Los Angeles, Calif., last month. With American flags in hand, over a thousand Copts peacefully demonstrated.Latin America: After the Left
Cultural change is extremely difficult. How do you persuade millions to alter habits deeply ingrained in their historical consciousness?