Steven Long responds to Christopher Tollefsen regarding capital punishment

Thomistica.net: "Goods" Without Normative Order to the Good Life, Happiness, or God: The New Natural Law Theory and the Nostrum of Incommensurability

Chris Masterjohn recommends the following:
Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science
Pressure on scientists to publish has led to a situation where any paper, however bad, can now be printed in a journal that claims to be peer-reviewed

Sister Matthaia Osswald's story of conversion to Orthodoxy: My Great Adventure in Search of the Truth

A Catholic can't help but scrutinize her reasons for converting, and the importance of the Divine Liturgy in the process.

Fr. Giertych has already been down to TAC. He will be in Berkeley next Tuesday. As my car is in the shop, I do not know if I will be able to attend, but I will post the video if it becomes available.

An interview of Wojciech Giertych, O.P. by the Province of St. Joseph.


Post-production for Master of the Sacred Palace was completed in May, but no news of when the DVD will be released. A post about him and his duties at Pro Unione.

His course on moral theology.

Medievalists.net: The Normans between Byzantium and the Islamic World

A typical NNLT appeal to "dignity"

Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity by Christopher O. Tollefsen

TED: Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution

Haven't the reductionistic claims of geneticists been shown to be exaggerated already?

Record: LIVE chat with Lucianne Walkowicz on extrasolar planets and how that affects life on Earth, September 15, 1-3pm EDT.

History of the Ancient World: Church, State and Divorce in Late Roman Egypt

Godzdogz: Fruits of Study 6: Suffering and Love in St Catherine of Siena

TED: Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication




TED ever going to have someone talk about using less energy?

Dominicana

The journal of the student brothers of the Province of St. Joseph.

"Upright"

Online Etymological Dictionary:

O.E. upriht, from up "up" + riht "right." Similar compounds are found in other Germanic languages (cf. O.Fris. upriucht, M.Du. oprecht, O.H.G. ufreht, Ger. aufrecht, O.N. uprettr). Figurative sense of "good, honest" is first attested 1520s. The noun in the sense of "something standing erect" is from 1742. 

Another link between "straight" [right] and being morally good? The erect position is proper to man, not only because he is a biped but a quadruped, but the natural posture is what is healthy for him as well?

EvoPsych

MoMo, FaMo, MoFa, and FaFa By David Barash

Angelicum: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Philosophy keynote highlights

Edward Feser has some responses to comments to the first part on original sin and modern biology.

Should I get a copy?

Rick Garnett recommends Josef Pieper's The Christian Idea of Man. A short introductory work that probably isn't as thorough as his essays on the cardinal virtues?

Laura Inglis interviews Robert George (via MoJ)

Zenit:

Papal Address to Engaged Couples
"Educate Yourselves Henceforth in the Liberty of Fidelity" [2011-09-12]

Papal Address to Priests and Parents
"No Vocation Is a Private Issue" [2011-09-12]

Papal Homily at Close of Eucharistic Congress
"A Eucharistic Spirituality Is a Real Antidote to Individualism" [2011-09-11]

On the Virgin's "Fiat"
The Risen Christ Is the "Source of Hope and Comfort for Daily Life" [2011-09-11]

Robert Araujo, SJ: On Cheering Death and Catholic Legal Theory

Life on the Rock - 09-08-2011 - The Rule of St Benedict - Fr Mark and Doug with Cullman Monks