As you may know, I have been on vacation for a few weeks and have tried to write blogs when computer access is available.

While in Vienna recently, I had the chance to meet a young man who has been married for nearly four years. He and his wife are waiting to have a baby because they simply, according to him, cannot afford it right now.

It seems, if you took this article seriously, that couples having children and thus increasing the Australian fertility rate is cause for concern, if not alarm, at least among those who keep statistics and appear dedicated to preserving the country’s ecological balance.

The latest news from the world of draconian science should have turned the culture of death on its ear – but so far, I have not heard a word from the human embryonic stem cell research cadre’s guru

The birth control pill came on the scene in 1960 and has, in the intervening 48 years, become the magic bullet for organizations like Planned Parenthood, for belief systems like secular humanism and for pharmaceutical profiteers the world over.

Peter Steinfels has been making incredibly inane comments about Catholic teaching for many years. He is well liked at the New York Times