Harvard Humanists and Catholic Teaching
One pleasant surprise at the Harvard Medical School annual bioethics conference, this year on prescribed suicide, was the discussion between doctors Lachlann Forrow and Tim Quill. Originally this segment was…
Harvard Annual Bioethics Conference 2019 Update
This Thursday and Friday, the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics annual conference is Controlling Death? The policies, practices, and ethics of choosing when we die. It’s all about assisted…
Kevin Dunn at the Catholic Men’s Conference
Kevin Dunn started off the Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference, and it was a strong start. He gave a great talk about how we can be prophets of hope in today’s world. He told an amazing story about his personal live and discussed the highlights of his film, Fatal Flaws.
Are PAS Laws Safe?
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they don’t always match. Security Theater is when you make things look safe in order to make people feel safe even…
Where Do Worcester County State Legislators Stand on PAS?
Massachusetts now has both a House (H.1926) and a Senate (S.1208) version of the PAS bill. Where do the Worcester County state legislators stand on this issue at this point?…
We Cannot Let Patients Kill Themselves
This article appears in the February 1, 2019 edition of the Catholic Free Press The Massachusetts legislature has once again introduced a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Deemed the…
Not So Subtle Coercion
The Guardian newspaper recently published an extensive and informative article on euthanasia and assisted suicide, Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? I have written about how coercion is…
Churches, Worship, and People in Crisis
Sometimes all people need is someone to listen to them. In our small, independent medical practice we have 30 minute appointments and often run behind because our patients need the…
