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Daniel Callahan Is Ain't Ought Embryos under the Microscope The Diverging Meanings of Life Jane Maienschien Harvard University Press, $28.95, 336 pp. Two news stories from the United Kingdom...

Out Of Step (November 2012)

ARTICLE Out of Step God & Me at Harvard & Yale Daniel Callahan To have a career reflecting on ethics requires three skills: to know oneself, to understand the culture in which one's life and...

Embryo Politics (October 2012)

Daniel Callahan Promises, Promises Embryo Politics Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies Thomas Banchoff Georgetown University Press, $35, 294 pp. The debate over embryonic stem cells will...

Contested Reproduction (March 2011)

Daniel Callahan Better than Nature? Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate John H. Evans University of Chicago Press, $45, 264 pp. Of all the medical...

America's Blind Spot (October 2009)

America’s Blind Spot Health Care & the Common Good Daniel Callahan The concept of the common good, ancient in origin, would seem on the face of it an ideal foundation for health-care reform....

Doctors without Borders: Licensed to kill (January 2009)

Commonweal . January 30, 2009 10 Doctors without Borders Daniel Callahan wAshIngTon sTATe’s new PhysIcIAn-AssIsTeD suIcIDe LAw B ) initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS l a...

Unsustainable (June 2008)

Article Unsustainable Hard Truths about the ‘American Way of Life’ Daniel Callahan Isuspect we all have our rogues’ gallery of vexing social issues, those that get under our skin...

Depopulation Bomb (November 2005)

Depopulation Bomb A Crisis in Western Birthrates? Daniel Callahan L ong before I took a professional interest in demography I had noticed a puzzle in the history of my family. Why was it...

Promises, Promises (January 2005)

Promises, Promises Is embryonic stem-cell research sound public policy? Daniel Callahan i I T he American love of science goes back to the very beginning of the nation, and so does the...

Pandora's Baby (January 2004)

BOOKS Where the slippery slope began Pandora's Baby How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution Robin Marantz Henig Houghton Mifflin, $25, 256 pp. Daniel Callahan 0 f...

On turning 70 (September 2000)

ly, maybe-that by sixty-five most...

Splitting hairs (June 2000)

tical result, for example, the death of...

Food for thought (April 2000)

food, and various environmental...

It's the culture, stupid (February 2000)

or many of us in health care, nothing is so frustrating and baffling as the failure of this country to enact some kind of universal health-care plan. While Bill Bradley and A1 Gore have made...

Good strategies & bad (December 1999)

ETHICS WATCH DANIEL CALLAHAN GOOD STRATEGIES & BAD Opposing physician-assisted suicide The state of Oregon has been notable in recent years for some policy innovations, not all of which...

Against ideology: There is no one solution to the health-care crisis. (September 1999)

From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal has been celebrating its 75th anniversary. here from the August 5, 1925 issue is an excerpt from "Summing Up at Dayton," the conclusion of a...

What's natural? (July 1999)

ETHICS WATCH DANIEL CALLAHAN WHAT'S NATURAL? It's hard to say One of my favorite examples of contemporary moral confusion, too little noted, is the status of nature as a moral guide. A...

Scientific research: Promises that won't be kept (May 1999)

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Skepticism is in order For years, and rightly so, bioethics has wrestled with the "technological imperative." The phrase has characterized the excessive use...

The truth about Medicare (April 1999)

~ e all get old and we all get sick before we die when we get old. These days we usually get expensively sick, which is why Medicare has been such an important program for the...

BOOKS (September 1998)

kneads silence down into dough, and lets it rise." This sampler of conclusions suggests how accessible, how aphoristic, and even quotable Ponsot's poems can be. Yet there is never anything...

Science, Jews, and Secular Culture by David A Hollinger How science took over as the religion of the academy (October 1997)

BOOK A Catholic at Harvard Science, Jews, and Secular Culture Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History David A.Hollinger Princeton University Press. 527,289 pp. Daniel...

Death and Deliverance Michael Burleigh (September 1995)

BOOKS From mercy to murder Death and Deliverance Euthanasia in Germany 1900-45 Michael Burleigh Cambridge University Press, $18.95 (paper), 382 pp. Daniel Callahan Not long ago, I engaged in...

The Politics of Virtue/Life's Dominion: (September 1993)

belong in this poet's everyday world, so World Series: was the more successful of those two ef- we find poems about old affairs or old I wear...

Cramming for your finals (July 1993)

CRAMMING FOR YOUR FINALS MAKE DEATH A PART OF LIFE DANIEL CALLAHAN lthough I did not understand it at the time, when my longtime friend asked me to visit him at his farm during my summer...

Special supplement: Euthanasia (August 1991)

he state of Washington is a place of serene and majestic beauty. Wide expanses of water, towering forests, broad plains, and splendid mountains surround its 5 million inhabitants in...

An ethical challenge to prochoice advocates (November 1990)

AN ETHICAL CHALLENGE TO PROCHOICE ADVOCATES ABORTION & THE PLURALISTIC PROPOSITION DANIEL CALLAHAN At the heart of much moral debate in America lies a simple and popular conviction: the law...

The primacy of caring (February 1990)

THE PRIMACY OF CARING CHOOSING HEALTH-CARE PRIORITIES DANIEL CALLAHAN In thinking about health priorities, we would do well to remind ourselves of a point long made, well supported, and yet...

Vital distinctions, mortal questions: (July 1988)

VITAL DISTINCTIONS, MORTAL QUESTIONS DEBATING EUTHANASIA & HEALTH-CARE COSTS DANIEL CALLAHAN The euthanasia issue is entering a new phase, one likely to be complicated and painful. Though...

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (October 1985)

Commonweal: 534 Books: CAN MORALITY BE REASONED? ETHICS AND TIE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY Bernard Williams Harvard, $17.50, 230 pp. Daniel Callohan Contemporary Anglo-American analytical philosophy...

Breaking through the stereotypes (October 1984)

A SIJRPRISING SIDE .OF THE ABORTION DEBATE Breaking through ...... t h e s t e r e o t y p e s SIDNEY CALLAHAN & DANIEL CALLAHAN A PART FROM some of the nastier reasons people impute to each...

HUMANAE VITAE: AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL (November 1973)

ii AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL DANIEL CALLAHAN What the Pope might have said in 'Humanae Vitae'--but didn't Aug. 23, 1968 A few months ago I played with the idea of writing an imaginary papal...

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE (November 1969)

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE How 3 should the magazine see itself and its • future role? Former editors reply. who have been around...

CHOKING ON PIOUS GOODIES (October 1969)

church, it must first learn to step back from the exag- proclaim the gospel with new meaning we require not gerated claims, even if this causes confusion among only...

AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL: (August 1968)

AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL DANIEL CALLAHAN A few months ago I played with the idea of writing an imaginary papal encyclical. Its aim was to have shown how the Pope might affirm the "traditional"...

BUST NO 2 AT COLUMBIA: (June 1968)

BUST NO. 2 AT COLUMBIA DANIEL, CALLAHAN 10:30 PM: Children in bed, all quiet; working, as usual, on deep theological problem; WKCR-FM (Columbia student station) playing in background. Hear...

CORRESPONDENCE: (April 1968)

CORRESPONDENCE Rosemary Ruether Responds Washington, D.C. To the Editors: In Daniel Callahan's recent review of books by Charles Davis, Hans Kung and myself, we were all accused of shifting faith...

PIE-IN-THE-SKY THEOLOGY?: (March 1968)

PIE-IN-TIIE-SKY THEOLOGY? Davis, Kiing and Ruether on the Church DANIEL CALLAHAN Until six or seven years ago, Frank Sheed's Theology and Sanity was required reading for the educated Catholic. Its...

RESISTANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (December 1967)

RESISTANCE AND TECHNOLOGY Herbert Marcuse: theorist of the new radicals DANIEL CALLAHAN • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • There is every indication that if the Vietnam war continues,...

CHURCH AND SECT (November 1967)

CHURCH AND SECT Should the Church be inclusive or exclusive? DANIEL CALLAHAN In more ways than one, the reform which has stirred the churches during recent years has reached an important...

SIMPLE CRILD, DOUBTING PARENT (May 1967)

New Directions SIMPLE CHILD, DOUBTING O 9 9 O 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 DANIEL CALLAHAN PARENT Everyone says it is not easy to be a parent today, and I guess that's so. The generational gap between...

POST-BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY (November 1966)

COMMENT POST-BIBLICAL rilHISTIAMTY DANIEL C ALLAH ADI Among the widely hailed triumphs of Vatican II was its reaffirmation of the centrality of Scripture in the Church. In particular, "The...

ETHICS AND EVIDENCE (October 1966)

any more than a comedian wants you to think about mother-in-laws. Songs must have words, and sad songs must have sad words, but the end-product is only a generalized sorrow and not a sorrow...

RELIGIOUS SLUM-DWELLERS (August 1966)

COMMENT _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 RELIGIOUS SL UM-DM rELLERS Among the varieties of human anguish, the inability of one person to share what another reports as a profoundly moving...

Freud Saw It Coming (June 1966)

COMMENT _9 O _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O O O _9 _9 FREUD SAW I T C0541 G The following conversation was recorded during the cocktail hour at a symposium on "Faith and Agnosticism." The...

Conscience and Orthodoxy (April 1966)

0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 CONSCIENCE AND ORTHODOXY Though the conciliar debate on religious liberty centered on the non-Catholic conscience, more than a few of the Fathers were...

Creating a Community (March 1966)

The human comes first CREATING A COMMUNITY O _9 _9 O _9 _9 _9 O O _9 _9 O O O O DANIEL CALLAHAN As in most things Catholic, the greatest obstacles to reforming the parish are human rather than...

ON JUDGING GOD (February 1966)

Chicago's South Side THE WORLD I GREW UP IN JAMES T. FARRELL What was it like? The Catholic world in which I grew up? Strictly speaking, it was not a Catholic worldit was a Chicago world,...

DILEMMAS OF CHANGE (January 1966)

in the university agitation which preceded the Liberal revolution of 1868 and the Republican revolution of 1931. Today's students are much more knowledgeable, technically speaking, than their...

THE LOGIC OF RELIGION (December 1965)

FRANCES COLVIN WILDCAT A wildcat lurks behind this hillside town; His golden eyes are flowers in the dark And stripes run from the trees into his fur, Furrowed like piney-bark in black and...

"THE SECULAR CITY" (November 1965)

"THE SECULAR CITY" An Exchange of Views between Andrew Greeley, Michael Novak, Harvey Cox and Daniel Callahan ANDREW GREELEY Chicago, 111. To the Editors: In his recent article in which he...

COMMENT (November 1965)

IS GOD DEAD? COMMENT I think one can take it for granted that any radically new theological movement is going to be offensive. This is doubly true of what William Hamilton has called the "death...

PREPARING FOR DIVERSITY (September 1965)

they will be forced by history to stand more and more in the background of world events and to observe helplessly the gradual atrophy of their authority and the growth of indifference to their...

THE SECULAR CITY (September 1965)

THE SECULAR CITY _9 _9 _9 _9 O _9 _9 _9 _9 O _9 O _9 _9 _9 Toward a Theology of Secularity DANIEL CALLAHAN Ordinarily, there is nothing so hard for the religious man to cope with as social...

THE NEW FREEDOM (June 1965)

THE NEW FREEDOM _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 What the revolution in the Church has brought DANIEL CALLAHAN The French Revolution, one recalls, began in a mild enough way. Dominated...

THE RISK OF FAITH (March 1965)

THE RISK OF FAITH There must be respect for self-probing and doubt DANIEL CALLAHAN 41 0 41 Cardinal Newman once wrote that "doubt itself is a positive state, and implies a definite habit of...

THE SCHOOLS (January 1965)

THE SCHOOLS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sociologists and critics have different standards DANIEL CALLAHAN ONE OF the more endearing traits of the sociologist is hardheadedness. Before...

Catholic Freedom and Mr. Wills (September 1964)

DANIEL CALLAHAN Catholic Freedom and Mr. Wills The gentle mayhem o] Catholic debate BACK IN the waning years of the middle ages, shortly before the opening of Vatican II, there appeared in...

Authority and the Theologian (June 1964)

The Cutting Edge of Renewal Authority and the Theologian DANIEL CALLAHAN THE QUESTION of family limitation in the Church today may be likened to a drama, but one so rich in rhetoric and...

The Quest for Honesty (April 1964)

Some Knotty Problems The Quest for Honesty DANIEL CALLAHAN WHILE IT WOULD probably smack of irreverence, there are times when I wish it were possible to feed into an advanced computer some...

Into the Briar Patch (January 1964)

Federal Aid: An Introduction Into the Briar Patch DANIEL CALLAHAN SOME MONTHS AGO, when my colleagues and I thought to put together a collection of articles on federal aid to religious schools,...

The Freedom of Priests (October 1963)

A Synthesis of Liberty and Authority is Needed The Freedom of Priests DANIEL CALLAHAN "THE LAY Catholic Population," Father Joseph H. Fichter has written in Religion as an Occupation, "is always...

The New Pluralism: From Nostalgia to Reality (September 1963)

The New Pluralism: From Nostalgia to Reality DANIEL CALLAHAN AS WE ALL know, the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 was taken as decisive evidence that the Catholie minority had "come of...

Seeds Behind the Wall (May 1963)

Journey to East Berlin Seeds Behind the Wall DANIEL CALLAHAN JUST HOW LONG ago I learned one of the first lessons of life-that appearances can deceive-is hard to say. In any case, it is a...

Problems and Possibilities (August 1962)

Laymen and the Council Problems and Possibilities DANIEL CALLAHAN IT IS impossible to talk about the status of the laity in the Church today without talking about the relation-ship of laity and...

Christopher Dawson at Harvard (June 1962)

Be the First on Your Block IF HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER say they've got water shoes, there's no reason to doubt them. What amazes us, though, is the quiet matter-of-factness of their ad: "Lets you walk...

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