The American College of Physicians called for better promotion of palliative and hospice care, which opponents of physician-assisted suicide say are underutilized areas of medicine that could address concerns of patients facing difficult illnesses.

"We have a priest who makes everyone feel welcome, says Mass with great reverence and gives meaningful homilies"

Any willingness to cooperate across party lines is praiseworthy. Unfortunately, brinkmanship remains the preferred legislative strategy.

When a pope issues a document “motu proprio,” it means he does so by his own motivation, and it can mean a significant change to church law.