You Know It’s An Election Year When…

You know it’s an election year when psychologists try to explain why people vote as they do. Most of the time, it’s harmless, but recently, a new, nastier tone can be detected. It’s something to keep an eye on because,… Read More

How Not to Prevent AIDS

In July the U.S.will host the International AIDS Conference and there is promising news. The experts are now convinced that treatment is prevention. If those who are infected are identified quickly, treated so that their viral load is lowered, not… Read More

Is the Catholic Church Green?

The subject of global ecology is relatively new within Catholic social teachings, and its increasing prevalence in magisterial documents has many wondering what to think. In a similar way, the term “New Evangelization” seems to be prompting more than a… Read More

The New Plague of Autism

Back in November, the Wall Street Journal featured a prominent article with the following headline: “The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams; Scientists Increasingly Link Vehicle Exhaust With Brain-Cell Damage, Higher Rates of Autism”. It was careful to point out that… Read More

Are the Consequences of Abortion Real?

That there are psychological consequences to having an abortion have been accepted by many in the pro-life and pro-abortion camps. The psychiatrist Professor Ian Brockington has commented: “Some [post abortion] mothers feel like criminals and brood over the dead foetus.… Read More

The End of Women

The death of the American feminist poet Adrienne Rich (pictured) this week has brought many accolades on account of her literary gifts and contribution to the feminist movement over the past 50 years. In her transformation from conventionally married mother… Read More

The Secret Suicides of Oregon

Oregon’s public health division has released statistics on deaths under its physician-assisted suicide (PAS) legislation. It shows a steady increase in the number of lethal prescriptions and in the number of deaths. In 1998, the first year after PAS was… Read More

Does Religion Cause Depression?

Based on a joint study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the World Health Organization in 1990, depression was identified as the leading cause of disability in the world (measured by years of life lived with disability)… Read More

How Love Builds Your Brain

Okay, here’s something positive about brain research. In fact, this piece from the New York Times Opinionator blog waxes lyrical on the subject, with good reason since it describes the brain’s response to love (and the withdrawal of it) throughout… Read More

The “War on Women” Began with the “War on Words”

Everywhere we look we are seeing accusations that there is a “War on Women”.
Despite what we are being told, the “War on Women” is not some evil plan orchestrated behind closed doors by conservative male politicians and Catholic Church… Read More

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