What saved me? No simple answers or solutions exist. People in the throes of deep depression cannot see a tomorrow of bright sunshine and love and joy.
Death and Dying
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Father Quentin Dupont responds to AP story on assisted suicide of Catholic man in Seattle
‘I was absolutely, unequivocally unaware of Mr. Fuller’s intention’ to kill himself.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A deadly crash on the Feast of the Assumption
The car flipped over 10 times. Maybe 15. I woke up to steel smashing against cement, over and over, over and over. Glass shattered and flew in my face and hair.
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What my mother’s sudden death taught me about fear
As a priest, ignoring my own emotions and how they may interact with the joys and pains of another is not an option.
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New Jersey assisted suicide law shows ‘utter failure’ of government and society, bishop says
New Jersey’s new law allowing assisted suicide, effective Aug. 1, “points to an “utter failure” on the part of government and indeed all society, said Bishop James F. Checchio of Metuchen.
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Daniel Callahan, a pioneer in bioethics, dies at 88
Callahan was an independent scholar working at the frontier where ethics meets medicine, law and religion.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What dead animals (and novels) can teach us about live humans
Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope mourns death of French patient after doctors withhold care
Vincent Lambert, who suffered serious brain damage more than 10 years ago, died after years of court battles.
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In its search for a missing woman, the Vatican discovers tombs of 19th century princesses are empty
Opening the Vatican tombs of a princess and a duchess July 11 in a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, the Vatican found no human remains at all.
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Forensic study of remains may shed light on young woman’s disappearance
The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA will be crucial in determining whether the remains in a small Vatican cemetery belong to Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983, a Vatican-appointed forensic anthropologist said.