A More Human Society Archives - Archdiocese of Baltimore

September 24, 2019

Conscience and its enemies

Should doctors and nurses be forced to take part in procedures that violate their conscience? It's a timely question. New federal regulations to enforce existing conscience protection laws are being challenged in federal courts.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

February 5, 2019

Building a wall against life

In what Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls a "historic victory for New Yorkers," New York has passed what may be the nation's most extreme and irresponsible abortion law.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

October 30, 2018

On not being a vegetable

Our medical system has been giving up on far too many of these patients, prematurely ensuring their deaths based on faulty diagnoses and self-fulfilling hopeless predictions.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

September 13, 2018

Good and bad ideas on church reform

Charges against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, and those who allegedly covered up his abuses and advanced him to an advisory role at the Vatican, must be investigated and proved or disproved.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

August 2, 2018

A church of sinners

Ideas have consequences, and for decades some very bad ideas have given aid and comfort to predators inside and outside the church.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

June 6, 2018

Of wedding cakes and our tenuous freedoms

Richard Doerflinger finds rich ironies in the Supreme Court's wedding cake ruling.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

May 31, 2018

Hype and reality on family planning

According to a 2016 fact sheet by the Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood affiliate, the federal government spends well over $2 billion a year on family planning, mostly through Medicaid (not affected by the regulation).

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Blog, Respect Life

April 4, 2018

Food for thought on helpless seniors

The U.S. assisted-suicide movement has ridiculed slippery-slope arguments, saying we will never follow the Netherlands in approving assisted suicide for people who only have dementia. It seems we are almost there now.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

February 13, 2018

Three cheers for Lucas

In a week dominated by the Winter Olympics and news of partisan combat (of course) in Washington, D.C., I am transfixed by the contagious smile of one little boy named Lucas Warren.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary, Respect Life, Video

December 7, 2017

Encouraging news on abortion

Supporters of legalized abortion used to agree that abortion should be "rare." They don't say it so much nowadays. Maybe they now realize that reducing abortions will require discouraging abortion.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

November 22, 2017

What is sex for?

The root problem here is a self-centered notion of freedom that "frees" individuals from respecting others, if such respect would get in the way of their own pleasure.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary

October 26, 2017

No greater love

In a moving commentary, the father of a fallen soldier says his son's death was not the random victim of some meaningless accident. He deliberately risked his life to protect others. He was a hero.

Richard DoerflingerA More Human Society, Commentary, Respect Life

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