To be seen—to be desired—is a beautiful human need no matter what our age is.

French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, an experienced diplomat and head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, died at the age of 75 in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was receiving medical treatment.

The C.D.C. reports a 25 percent spike between 1999 and 2016 in the frequency of suicide across the country.

The medical profession’s hegemony over questions of illness and dying is not complete; faith communities are still needed for discernment and guidance.

We must learn again that communities exist to create, sustain and protect life.

The American Medical Association House of Delegates voted 314-243 not to affirm the report of the organization's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs to maintain the AMA's long-held opposition to assisted suicide.