Michael Hanby

Nov 13, 2024 | firstthings.com | Michael Hanby

The almost complete lack of reflection on the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies for producing children is a telling sign of the unseriousness of our age. The transformation of our typical thoughtlessness into an aggressive boosterism on behalf of these technologies is a more foreboding sign for the human future. Modern technology realizes a superhuman aspiration to project human power beyond a human scale.

Aug 2, 2024 | thelampmagazine.com | Michael Hanby

Though contemporary Western humanity remains absorbed in its “little pleasures for the day” and “little pleasures for the night,” I nevertheless wonder sometimes whether we are Nietzsche’s last men or the first posthumans. Perhaps we represent some kind of transitional form, if devolution has transitional forms, in which case we will probably never know. After all, the Neanderthals presumably did not comprehend who or what they were.

Jul 12, 2024 | firstthings.com | Christopher Ruddy |Michael Hanby |Anthony Akinwale |Edward Feser

Is the Second Vatican Council receding in the church’s rearview mirror? Has the Francis pontificate raised new and difficult questions about the exercise of papal authority? Is the Roman Church poised to become non-Western? Can popes and bishops teach effectively in a time of rampant individualism and social fragmentation? In short: Quo vadis?

Sep 4, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Michael Hanby |Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski

Judging from the near-universal testimony among pro-lifers that they never expected to see the end of Roe v. Wade during their lifetime, the Dobbs decision overturning Roe and Casey seems to leave us in the position of the dog who finally caught the car: Now what do we do?

Jul 21, 2023 | brownpelicanla.com | Michael Hanby

WATCH: New Orleans Archdiocese’s Lawyers Make Millions While Hundreds of Sex Abuse Victims Have Received Nothing, by David Hammer CDC’s Advice for Male ‘Chestfeeding’ Pushes Transgenderism to the Limits … If It Has Any, by The Ruth Institute By Michael Hanby, First Things, August 2023 Michael Hanby is associate professor of religion and philosophy of science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. Facts and great...