End of Life Care: When is a person really dead?
There never used to be debate over when someone was dead. If there was no heartbeat, no breathing, and no response to stimulation or resuscitation…
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End of Life Care: The Ventilator
Life support: The ventilator By Paul A. Byrne, M.D. Breathing is something we do all the time, mostly without even thinking about it. We take…
End of Life Care: Do I have to spend my last days hooked up to machines?
We’ve probably heard this question before. No one wants to be hooked up to machines against their will–and no one should be forced to be…
End of Life Care: Miracles
A non-comprehensive compendium of cases of patients who have awakened and/or improved following a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state, irreversible coma or death Prepared with…
End of Life Care: Providing nutrition and hydration to patients
By Julie Grimstad Contrary to what secularists1 claim, there are absolutes – absolutely right and absolutely wrong choices and actions. The Catholic Church, more than any…
End of Life Care: Should I be an organ donor?
It’s hard to ignore the national campaign to encourage organ donation. You encounter it on bumperstickers and billboards, and you deal with it when you…
Communique – Oct. 14, 2005
in this issue: hot button issues: BOB DORNANabortion: CONSPICUOUS BY ITS ABSENCEabortion and business: AMERICAN GIRLabortion and rape: COSTA RICAeuthanasia: HURRICANE KATRINAin vitro fertilization: IGNORING GUIDELINESmedical research: WRONGmorning-after abortion pill: CONGRESSIONAL ENDORSEMENTSpersonhood: RIGHT TO…
Fristing in the wind
There has been a great deal of debate for some months over the question of whether Senator Bill Frist is or is not pro-life.
Leading us the wrong way
National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru talks about recent “bad news” for pro-lifers, claiming that polls show an downsurge in the number of Americans who define themselves as pro-life.
Vaccines and Catholic Doctrine: The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Moral ConscienceReference pages 438-441 1777 Moral conscience, present at the heart of the person, enjoins him at the appropriate moment to do good and to avoid…
Vaccines and Catholic doctrine: Teaching of Holy Scripture on the Sanctity of Life
In that the Catholic Faith is founded on the apostolic teachings found in Holy Scripture, the early teachings of the Church founders, The Catechism of…
Vaccines and Catholic Doctrine
Whereas the supreme teaching authority of the Catholic Church, as illumined by Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition, is defined in the Catechism of the Catholic…