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.

As a priest, ignoring my own emotions and how they may interact with the joys and pains of another is not an option.

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.

Callahan was an independent scholar working at the frontier where ethics meets medicine, law and religion.

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.

Vincent Lambert, who suffered serious brain damage more than 10 years ago, died after years of court battles.