How can we justify the military giving addictive pills to their warriors?
Health Care
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Election could determine fate of religious freedom in health care
There is more on the line on November 8 than just the presidency.
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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.
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Legalizing pot is ‘unacceptable,’ say leading U.S. Catholics
Recreational marijuana could soon be legal in at least five states.
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Why all Catholics need to stand up to big-pharma’s price gouging
To follow Jesus, Catholics must tend to the poor and sick.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Catholic groups urge American Medical Association to maintain its position against assisted suicide
The AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs is gathering information to “outline the current landscape” on physician-assisted suicide.
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Our nation’s greatest contribution to religious thought is Alcoholics Anonymous
The genius of A.A. is that it is a proto-religious fellowship in which people in desperate need somehow rediscover the fire of a foundational miracle.