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Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous response he has received inspired him to start the Center for Life Principles.

This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons' unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights, and the Common Good."

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Reviews

"An excellent resource for examining the life issues in their broadest and most profound context."
  -- Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago

"Every great once in a while, a book comes along that pulls together a multitude of perplexing questions and presents them in a form readily understandable to the general reader. Healing the Culture is such a book."
  -- Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor, First Things

"Professor Spitzer returns us to the fundamental questions: What is happiness, what is love, what constitutes the good life, and who counts as a person. He elegantly demonstrates how our answers to these questions determine who we are and how we live. His book is powerful and much needed for an ailing society."
  -- Patricia Wesley, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine

"Fr. Spitzer is an astute diagnostician of our troubled times, and an adept healer. But the source of these two abilities is his gift as a teacher. Indeed, he is a virtuoso teacher and has brilliantly outlined, for the docile reader, an artfully conceived path that leads the authentic person through knowledge, love, sacrifice, social consciousness, and a practical awareness of what it truly means to be pro-life, to fulfillment and beatitude. He provides the vital ethos, logos, and pathos that is largely missing in our "culture of choice" that so often chooses both unwittingly and unwisely."
  -- Dr. Donald DeMarco, Professor of Philosophy, St. Jerome's University; Waterloo, Ontario

"Our 'culture of death' cannot make anyone really happy. Why is this so? Because, as Fr. Spitzer explains, our 'metaphysical materialism' denies intangibles such as "love, justice and rights.' Fr. Spitzer tells why 'we must accord personhood, unconditional dignity, and inalienable rights to all beings of human origin.' Drawing on his expertise in philosophy and psychology, he goes on to show, in many practical ways, how we can transcend 'ego-centric materialism.' We can fully live the culture of life only if we seek a happiness which 'involves giving up to God.' Fr. Spitzer shows, with examples, how 'Thy will be done' is a prescription for happiness. It works. Fr. Spitzer is an academic. But, thank God, he does not write like one. This important and readable book is one you will underline and keep handy for frequent reference. We should all read it."
  -- Charles Rice, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School, Indiana

"In Father Bob Spitzer we meet a man of uncommon common sense married to acute intelligence and extensive pastoral experience. Healing the Culture shows us how to escape the lethal cul-de-sac of 'I did it my way' and get back onto the path of doing it the right way - which is the road to happiness and excellence."
  -- George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II