Falsifying Health Records
In December, the New York Times reported on the widespread starvation of children in Venezuela due to its economic collapse. The government’s response: falsify the records. “Doctors are censored in…
A Tale of Two Dignities
This article was published in this week’s Catholic Free Press. As is usually the case with life issues, each side seem to talk a different language. The same is true…
Mass Medical Society PAS Survey Results
In September, The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) surveyed its 22,500 members regarding physician assisted suicide (PAS). They say that because of that survey, the MMS decided to “rescinded its longstanding…
Advance Directives as a Road to Euthanasia
Italy recently passed a law permitting citizens to create living wills, a type of advance directive, with differing perspectives reported in the New York Times and The Tablet. The law…
Saint Edith Stein, Christmas, and Redemptive Suffering
This excerpt is from The Mystery of Christmas, a lecture she gave to a group of academics. This is even more powerful when one considers her eventual martyrdom in an…
Alzheimer Euthanasia Already Reality?
One of the biggest medical stories of 2017 was met with bored indifference. The death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease rose a whopping 55% from 1999 to 2014. It is now…
Why Prescribed Suicide is Bad, Again
On September 7, New York’s highest court unanimously ruled against assisted suicide. They wrote, “At present, the Legislature of this State has permissibly concluded that an absolute ban on assisted…
Charlie Gard and Catholic Euthanasia
The parents of Charlie Gard will stand by as the medical system removes life support from their child and watch him die. That may have been their ultimate fate, but…
Nature and dignity 