A hospice chaplain learns that people carry burdensome secrets and regrets, and the prospect of dying makes them want to unload them.
Health Care
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
Pregnancy centers should be able to operate without government interference.
What does it mean, as a medical provider, to participate in a procedure that you find morally objectionable?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Soldiers have always needed drugs to get them through their brutal missions.
How can we justify the military giving addictive pills to their warriors?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Election could determine fate of religious freedom in health care
There is more on the line on November 8 than just the presidency.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
D.C. Council supports assisted suicide bill
Opponents say the bill is flawed because it endangers “high-risk” populations, including the elderly, the uninsured and underinsured, the homeless, low-income individuals and those with intellectual disabilities.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Legalizing pot is ‘unacceptable,’ say leading U.S. Catholics
Recreational marijuana could soon be legal in at least five states.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Why all Catholics need to stand up to big-pharma’s price gouging
To follow Jesus, Catholics must tend to the poor and sick.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Doctors Against Assisted Suicide
Two Catholic organizations are calling on physicians to urge the American Medical Association to maintain its current stance against physician-assisted suicide. The call from the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Catholic Bioethics Center
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
There’s a heroin epidemic in this country and faith communities need to be talking more about it.
In the last 10 years, the number of heroin-related overdoses nearly quadruple.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
The statistics are wrong. Accidental shootings are killing children more than we think.
Deaths and injuries spike for children under 5, with 3-year-olds the most common shooters and victims.