An attorney affiliated with the Alliance Defense Fund has used litigation to stop a Tennessee hospital from unilaterally withdrawing life support from an infant. From the story:East Tennessee Children’s Hospital said it would continue caring for 9-month-old Gabriel Palmer from . . . . Continue Reading »
A month ago, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), the latest and possibly the last holder of public office among America’s most famous Catholic family, stated in an interview with Catholic News Service: I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social . . . . Continue Reading »
I joined many others in pounding the apparent abuse of the UK’s Liverpool Care Pathway, both in articles here—and during my recent debate/speech tour of Scotland/London. Readers may recall that the Pathway puts people near death into an artificial coma. I do not object to . . . . Continue Reading »
You gotta love the man. Barry W. Lynn, the indefatigable director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, explains, on abortion provisions in the health-care bill , that there’s “a visceral sense that this [Catholic lobbying] went way over the line—even if as a . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the official Vatican communiqué, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, had a private audience with Pope Benedict last Friday to discuss the following: In the course of the cordial discussions attention turned to the challenges facing all Christian communities at the . . . . Continue Reading »
On Sunday’s editorial page , the New York Times took up the confrontation between the city council of Washington, D.C., and the Catholic archbishop of Washington, Donald Cardinal Wuerl. Meanwhile, in the Washington Post , Wuerl himself addressed the question of whether the archdiocese and its . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher is concerned about certain trends in law enforcement . He quotes Reul Marc Gerecht saying: For the FBI, religion remains a much too sensitive subject, much more so than the threatening ideologies of yesteryear. Imagine if Maj. Hasan had been an officer during the Cold War, regularly . . . . Continue Reading »
I will be traveling all this week and will have limited access to . . . . Continue Reading »
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Regarding the Ron Houben case mentioned earlier by Joe Carter : There are crucial lessons to learn. We hear constantly from the utilitarian bioethics crowd that people diagnosed as being persistently unconscious should be dehydrated to death because they are not “persons,” or even, they . . . . Continue Reading »
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