The debate on how to save Social Security from bankruptcy could heat up again over the next year or two. The below is a letter to the editor of National Review explaining the danger of hiking payroll taxes. Ramesh Ponnuru’s predictions (“Deal or No Deal?”,
17 November 2006 Vol. 8 / No. 45 Dear Colleague: Earlier this year we sent Joseph A. D’Agostino to Rome where, among other activities, he interviewed two Vatican prelates. Here is what they had to say about the life issues and demographics. Suicide of the West?
Fr. Stanislas de Lestapis, a French Jesuit, died in 1999 at the age of 94. He had been a member of the Papal Commission on Birth Control and was one of the signatories of its minority report. He had published a book, Birth Control, of
Father Louis Aldrich, S.J. directs the Human Life Ethics Research center in Taiwan. The center is located on the campus of Fu-Jen Catholic University near the capital, Taipei. PRI President Steven Mosher was recently in Taiwan to film a segment of his EWTN series, and
More Sex Ed or Abstinence Promotion for British Schoolchildren A recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Britain’s leading progressive think tank, says that schoolchildren in England as young as 10 years of age should be instructed in use of contraceptives. Why?
It is often useful to examine the front page of a major newspaper or home page of a website just to see what is being presented and how. Watching solely the front page of a major newspaper could, over time, tell you the most important
28 July, 2006 Vol. 8 / No. 29 Dear Colleague: The extinguishing of a people does not have to be done with troops or death camps. Isn’t it genocide to indoctrinate into the contraceptive mentality the youth of a small nation with a low birthrate? Steven
A rational, which is to say Catholic, view of human sexuality sees it as merely one aspect of the human person, necessarily bounded by moral strictures and cultural mores that keep this powerful drive channeled and controlled for the good of the person, the family,
June 30, 2006 Volume 8, Number 25 The Gates-Buffett Marriage, Designed Not to Bear Fruit Dear Colleague: The combination of the money of the two richest men in the world will produce fewer men and women the world over. Steven W. Mosher President Two fanatically
New Zealand Aging New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark believes she has the solution to that country’s problem of an aging population with little money saved to provide for twilight years: Force them to save through KiwiSaver, an automatic-deductible savings plan. The KiwiSaver plan initiates
The debate on how to save Social Security from bankruptcy could heat up again over the next year or two. The below is a letter
17 November 2006 Vol. 8 / No. 45 Dear Colleague: Earlier this year we sent Joseph A. D’Agostino to Rome where, among other activities, he interviewed
Fr. Stanislas de Lestapis, a French Jesuit, died in 1999 at the age of 94. He had been a member of the Papal Commission on
Father Louis Aldrich, S.J. directs the Human Life Ethics Research center in Taiwan. The center is located on the campus of Fu-Jen Catholic University near
More Sex Ed or Abstinence Promotion for British Schoolchildren A recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Britain’s leading progressive think tank,
It is often useful to examine the front page of a major newspaper or home page of a website just to see what is being
28 July, 2006 Vol. 8 / No. 29 Dear Colleague: The extinguishing of a people does not have to be done with troops or death camps.
A rational, which is to say Catholic, view of human sexuality sees it as merely one aspect of the human person, necessarily bounded by moral
June 30, 2006 Volume 8, Number 25 The Gates-Buffett Marriage, Designed Not to Bear Fruit Dear Colleague: The combination of the money of the two
New Zealand Aging New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark believes she has the solution to that country’s problem of an aging population with little money