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The Ruth Institute PodcastWhatever Versus Catholic Morality | Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show (parts 1 & 2)In this conversation, Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morris and Richard Doerflinger discuss the Catholic Church's teachings on sexual morality, particularly in the context of contraception and family planning. They explore the cultural shifts towards subjectivism in moral reasoning, the role of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and share personal experiences that highlight the challenges and implications of these teachings. The discussion emphasizes the need for a return to moral absolutes and the importance of rebuilding a marriage culture to address issues like abortion. This conversation explores the profound social and moral implications of contraception and abortion, emphasizing the unintended consequences of...
2025-03-281h 04The Ruth Institute PodcastWhatever Versus Catholic Morality | Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show (parts 1 & 2)In this conversation, Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morris and Richard Doerflinger discuss the Catholic Church's teachings on sexual morality, particularly in the context of contraception and family planning. They explore the cultural shifts towards subjectivism in moral reasoning, the role of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and share personal experiences that highlight the challenges and implications of these teachings. The discussion emphasizes the need for a return to moral absolutes and the importance of rebuilding a marriage culture to address issues like abortion. This conversation explores the profound social and moral implications of contraception and abortion, emphasizing the unintended consequences of...
2025-03-281h 04The Ruth Institute PodcastCatholic Morality Never Goes Out of Style | Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show, episode 275Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show, episode 275 https://youtu.be/W1CEN49YgGU "When young women go to college, they are instantly expected to fall into the hook-up culture," Richard Doerflinger says in Part 2 of this interview. "Their initial feeling is 'I'm free. I'm liberated from all these restrictive norms. Nobody's watching. Sex is consequence-free.'" And yet, among these young women is more depression, anxiety, isolation, suicidal thoughts, and cutting "to know you're alive," he notes. "Then they can't figure out why they feel so miserable." Watch part 1 here: https://youtu...
2025-03-2652 minThe Ruth Institute PodcastCatholic Morality Never Goes Out of Style | Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show, episode 275Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show, episode 275 https://youtu.be/W1CEN49YgGU "When young women go to college, they are instantly expected to fall into the hook-up culture," Richard Doerflinger says in Part 2 of this interview. "Their initial feeling is 'I'm free. I'm liberated from all these restrictive norms. Nobody's watching. Sex is consequence-free.'" And yet, among these young women is more depression, anxiety, isolation, suicidal thoughts, and cutting "to know you're alive," he notes. "Then they can't figure out why they feel so miserable." Watch part 1 here: https://youtu...
2025-03-2652 minThe Ruth Institute PodcastCatholic Sexual Morality is NOT out of Date | Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show, episode 274Catholicism is one of the last holdouts against contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex outside of marriage, and more. The Church's moral teachings ultimately protect people from heartache, illness, broken families, and, especially in the case of abortion, death. And yet, these teachings have opponents even within the Catholic Church's hierarchy. Richard Doerflinger is one of the contributors to Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality, which argues against those who wish to change the Church's moral teachings. He shares his personal experience of how The Pill affected his wife physically...
2025-03-1934 minThe Ruth Institute PodcastCatholic Sexual Morality is NOT out of Date | Richard Doerflinger on the Dr. J Show, episode 274Catholicism is one of the last holdouts against contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex outside of marriage, and more. The Church's moral teachings ultimately protect people from heartache, illness, broken families, and, especially in the case of abortion, death. And yet, these teachings have opponents even within the Catholic Church's hierarchy. Richard Doerflinger is one of the contributors to Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality, which argues against those who wish to change the Church's moral teachings. He shares his personal experience of how The Pill affected his wife physically...
2025-03-1934 min
The Catholic BookwormEpisode 115: Richard Doerflinger on his chapter in Lived Experience entitled “Married Experience and the Gospel of Life” (December 11, 2024)In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Richard Doerflinger on his chapter in Lived Experience entitled “Married Experience and the Gospel of Life” (December 11, 2024)This book is an initial attempt to arrive inductively at the truths embedded in the moral teaching of the Church through the lived experience of faithful men and women, rendered intelligible in conceptual terms. While attending to one’s own experience is certainly one step in coming to understand oneself, it provides but a glimpse – a partial clue – into the mystery of who one is and is meant to be. Indeed, experience...
2024-12-111h 04
The Drew Mariani ShowOur Moral VoteHour 1 for 8/7/24 Drew covered the issues of the day including a poll showing Kamala Harris ahead of Trump (:39). Then, Dr. Jeff Gardner discussed the 10th Anniversary of the ISIS takeover (16:56). Finally, Richard Doerflinger discussed the Morning After Pill (28:58), Trump and Harris' position on abortion (36:52), and our moral responsibility of voting (48:46).
2024-08-0751 min
LifeTalk NWLTNW #146 Katie talks with Richard DoerflingerRichard Doerflinger, the former Associate Director of Pro-life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shares about a terrible new law that would remove the safeguards against coercion and abuse from the Death With Dignity Act. He also spoke about how listeners can get involved in stopping this legislation from passing in Washington
2023-03-1024 min
That's So Second MillenniumEp 146 - TSSM Takes a BreakThe co-hosts announce that the TSSM podcast, now posting our 146th episode, will begin a hiatus, but all programs and show notes will continue to be archived and accessible.
This episode allows Dr. Paul Giesting and Bill Schmitt to look back on their four-and-a-half years of interviews and discussions seeking a greater synthesis of knowledge: an exploration of science and religion, philosophy and spirituality, neuroscience and quantum physics, policies and principles, history and the future, to better understand ourselves and the values and virtues in our lives. Our curiosity and concerns are grounded in our experiences as cradle Catholics, a...
2022-11-2240 minLifeTalk NWLTNW #139 Dan talks with Richard Doerlinger post Supreme Court's Dobb decision.Richard Doerflinger retired after 36 years with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. He brings the wealth of his expertise to help clarify the swirling misinformation after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. He challenges those who refuse to offer any limits on abortion to provide any kind of rational for their position.
2022-11-1529 min
Voting CatholicAbortion: what does a just law look like in post-Roe America?Abortion is an enormously complicated issue. There are so many factors to consider, from the morality of the act itself, to the lives and wellbeing of the unborn child and of the mother. Abortion laws and policies are now taking shape across various states. Much of the media’s attention and public debate has focused on a relatively small number of medical complications during pregnancy, and exceptions to abortion bans. So, what does a just and moral abortion law–one that protects both the unborn child and the mother–look like?In this final episode of season two of...
2022-10-2733 min
LifeTalk NWLTNW #133 Dan & Katie host Richard Doerflinger,In this episode, Dan and Katie speak with Richard, former USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, discussing the issues in the news; leaked draft of Dobbs Supreme Court case.
2022-06-2026 min
The Catholic Herald Podcast: Merely Catholic with Gavin AshendenThe Politics of AbortionThe leak of a draft opinion that Roe vs Wade may be soon overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court has inflamed political tensions throughout America and led to attacks on Catholic churches and the disruption of Masses.
The judgement is not only controversial because it created the federal legal framework for the 62 million abortions in the United States performed since 1973 but also because of its apparent lack of legal coherence.
In this sixth episode of Merely Catholic, Dr Gavin Ashenden speaks to Richard Doerflinger, former associate director of the U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-life Ac...
2022-05-1937 min
LifeTalk NWEpisode #128 Dan hosts guest Richard DoerflingerDan and Richard talk about Death and Dignity.
2022-02-1127 minThat's So Second MillenniumEpisode 103 - Richard Doerflinger on Covid-19, Commercial Confidence, and Imperfect ScienceBill interviewed a leading Catholic voice in public affairs, especially in bioethics and the culture of life: Richard Doerflinger.
His latest column for Catholic News Service examines the implications of the “Science Wins” maxim publicized by Pfizer Inc. in a recent TV commercial. You can see the commercial here.
Doerflinger mentioned libertarian bioethicist John Harris in connection with the developments and moral controversies surrounding research on embryonic stem cells some years ago. Once concerns about human dignity were successfully eased by the development of pluripotent cells, science and society both did win from a prudential pullback from reliance on e...
2020-06-0835 min
Life, Liberty, and LawRichard Doerflinger on suicide, equal protection, and the rights of patientsRichard Doerflinger joins Tom Shakely and Alyssa Grasinski to speak on the advance of America's pro-suicide advocates over the course of Doerflinger's 36-year career at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in their Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, and his recent Public Discourse piece, "Assisted Suicide: The Ethics, the Laws, and the Dangers." Richard is an Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and a Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, and he writes a monthly syndicated column distributed by Catholic News Service. Richard and his wife Lee Ann are ac...
2019-10-0750 min
Ethics and Culture CastEpisode 16: Richard DoerflingerRichard M. Doerflinger retired in 2016 after 36 years of service to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, finishing as the associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. In that role he was involved in every single life issue, including embryo research, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia, at the very highest level in federal and state governments. In 2011, he became the first recipient of the Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, and he continues to serve as a Vita Institute Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Culture, and writes opinion columns in Catholic newspapers across the nation, among other...
2018-04-1223 min
Veteran Resource Podcast017 Lee Ann Doerflinger - American Gold Star MothersLee Ann Doerflinger grew up in Washington state. Following her graduation from the University of Chicago, she and her husband Richard moved to the Washington DC area where they raised their four children. The second of those children, Thomas, joined the Army infantry in 2002 and was deployed to Iraq in October of 2004. In November of that year, he was killed during combat operations in Mosul. In the nearly eleven years since then, Lee Ann has worked on veterans issues in Montgomery County, and has been an active member of the Maryland Chapter of American Gold Star Mothers, and is...
2015-07-1541 min
The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy ConnectionThe Genealogy Guys Podcast #238 - 2012 July 8The news includes: FamilySearch.org has completed many states in the 1940 U.S. Federal Census and other projects including South American, U.K., Scotland, Slovakian, Philippines, and Swedish records. The Federation of Genealogical Societies announced that a generous donation of $135,000 has been received from the estate of the late Jon Stedman and is designated for the Preserve the Pensions – War of 1812 Pension Digitization Fund. The Illinois State Genealogical Society has announced a War of 1812 Pension Fund Challenge in the amount of $10,000. RootsMagic has announced the release of two new CDs of RootsMagic webinars, Volumes 3 and 4. The webinars are st...
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