Abolishing Ourselves - First Things

Abolishing Ourselves - First Things

Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the British headlines from the past few weeks. The House of Commons approved bills that allow for assisted killing and for late-term abortion. That Labour left-winger Diane Abbott delivered one of the more insightful and sane speeches in the debate on the former is surely a sign of the strangeness of our time. By contrast, twelve Catholic MPs, to their shame, …

With Abortions Up to Birth and Assisted Suicide, UK May Fully Reject Morality

It has been a hard month, watching the unfolding of laws in the United Kingdom that seem, as Macbeth intoned, to light “the way to dusty death.” This is said as an Irish American who fled to Europe after graduation from Notre Dame in 1974, not to visit the Emerald Isle (I got there two decades later with my younger daughter) but to see and study in the London of Pound, Eliot, Dickens, and Shakespeare. I was enamored of the literature and the Lon…