A Difficult Peace
I didn’t want my children to know. They were waiting for a baby to be placed in a manger. The doll, the placeholder for our…
A Prescription for Injustice: Part 4
The dignity of life must come before profit, is the official position of The Catholic Church on all matters related to medical care. The Catholic…
A Prescription for Injustice: Part 3
What would a pharmaceutical company actually look like if it were motivated by conscience rather than profit? While the number of cosmetic procedures in America…
A Prescription for Injustice: Part 2
There is no cure for AIDS. Antiretroviaral (ARV) treatment, though, can prolong lives in the hopes that people with AIDS will survive until a cure…
A Prescription for Injustice: Part 1
They are legal drugs. These pills, injections, tablets and infusions help determine both the quality of life and the proximity of death. They are the…
Sex Slaves
Since the fall of the Berlin wall roughly 8 million Eastern European women have gone missing. Most have been trafficked into sexual slavery in North…
But What About the Children?
On Christmas Eve, after returning from the Catholic children’s service, my family and I will sit down to a dinner of 7 vegetarian dishes. The…
