Human Dignity

The global village priest

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 May 2011

From the moment he passed away, he was called John Paul the Great. Now, he can be called Blessed John Paul II. Which is acknowledging what he was.

This crucial moment in Egypt

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 February 2011

The cross-section of different…and wildly different…views on the Egyptian revolution coming in from around the world boggles the mind. But then, the revolution flummoxed the world.

Grieving Parents Act

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 January 2011

When a pregnant woman goes to the doctor, he is treating two patients. When he aborts one, it’s called ‘the product of conception’ or ‘fetal tissue’. When miscarriage ends the life of the child….what to say on the records may depend on which state they’re in.

If King were alive today

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 January 2011

Dr. Martin Luther King lives on in his legacy. There are many voices speaking for what that means today.

The new orthodoxy of “knowledge professionals”

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 October 2010

The Religion Newswriters Association held their annual meeting recently. Their keynote speaker challenged them: be honest.

Untethered to logic and natural law

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 October 2010

"To say that safeguards for individual liberty do not have any intrinsic worth is to say that individual liberty does not have any intrinsic worth. To say that individual liberty does not have any intrinsic worth is to say that the individual human person does not have any intrinsic worth. This is to deny that we are endowed with rights by our Creator. To deny that is in effect to deny that there is a Creator. This is atheism and nihilism no less than moral relativism." Who said this?

Doing injustice in the name of justice

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 September 2010

What would a totally tolerant society look like?

‘Rights and duties of the state and individual’

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 September 2010

When Pope Benedict makes apostolic visits to to various countries, his remarks and addresses always reflect keen insight into that culture’s strengths and weaknesses. But he’s really addressing people of the world beyond that nation in his message of universal human rights and dignity.

Resist dread

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 August 2010

Okay, Americans are steamed. We’re short on leaders and long on critics. Hope and change were empty campaign slogans, and now citizens are angry and afraid. But isn’t there an upside?

Michael Schiavo seeks more attention

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 May 2010

He has surfaced again. And as has been his track record, Schiavo goes about his public campaign for some personal gain in a terribly dysfunctional way that strains credulity and human decency. This is the latest bizarre and disgusting twist...

Bishops: Fix the bill

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 March 2010

Well-intended and necessary as health care reform is, just expanding government programs to make more Americans insured to access a government controlled industry is not enough to affirm human dignity and serve the common good. At least not as mandated in the newly passed legislation, say the U.S. bishops.

Good news in the Times?

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 December 2009

The children of Specialty will deteriorate and die here. The real wonder is that they have survived.

Over 47,200 signatures

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 November 2009

The Manhattan Declaration is growing and recalling Christians to conscience.