Charles C. Camosy is Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He writes a monthly “Purple Catholicism” column for RNS and is the author of five books. His most recent work, Resisting Throwaway Culture, was published in May of 2019 and won first place from the Catholic Publishers Association as “Resource of the Year.” He is currently working on a book that connects secular medicine’s rejection of fundamental human equality to their rejection of theology as a meaningful discipline. You can follow him on Twitter @ccamosy.
Playing a strictly defensive game of knocking down attempts to legalize physician-assisted killing - especially as the United States secularizes and becomes more like Canada - seems like an untenable strategy for protecting the most vulnerable from this deadly violence. Locking in dignity and radical equality of all human beings will require more. In short, it is time to go on offense.
Date posted: 2023-06-25
Scripture and tradition tell us something astonishing about our embryonic brothers and sisters currently being kept in frozen storage: they are a vulnerable population that perhaps demands our attention the most. Indeed, embryo adoption appears to be smack-dab in the center of the demands of the Gospel.
Date posted: 2023-01-28
How we treat imperiled newborns - not only after a failed abortion attempt, but also in a more traditional NICU setting - is essential for fully grasping the current understanding of the right to abortion. When we examine the central role ableism plays in both sets of issues, thinking about them together provides an anti-ableist critique that has important implications for both prenatal and neonatal justice.
Date posted: 2022-05-14
Texas's refusal to choose between the mother and her prenatal child, despite some important questions about the method used to achieve their goals, constitutes a blueprint for the pro-life movement. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, many more vulnerable women across the country will be without the access to abortion our throwaway culture has diabolically forced them to rely on. Pro-lifers must follow Texas's lead and be at the ready to assist these women. We must make good on our claims that their legal and social equality does not require redistributing oppression to another vulnerable population.
Date posted: 2021-10-23
A moral theologian urges Pope Francis to bring his forceful defense of prenatal children into a more central place of his pontificate. It is time to stand up firmly and forcefully for their dignity in a culture which increasingly sees them as disposable things that can be violently discarded.
Date posted: 2021-01-30