Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Treating God’s Anointed
1 SM 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-2 PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13 1 COR 15:45-49 LK 6:27-38 Today’s...
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Tag: Euthanasia
Our Response to All God’s Vulnerable People: Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Isaiah 53:10-11 Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 One of the common...
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The Fatal Flaw in the Alfie Evans Decision
The RCPCH directive, the physician’s report on Alfie’s condition, and the judge’s decision all stack the decks by excluding from their evaluation of what is in Alfie’s best interests the primary benefit afforded by the life-sustaining treatment offered to him: life itself.
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When Human Dignity Becomes Human Divinity
Gilbert Meilaender’s recent Commonweal piece, commenting on a disturbing “death with dignity”...
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Jane Lotter’s “Viral” Obituary: How are Christians to Respond?
In the past few days, both the New York Times and the Huffington Post have posted stories about...
Read MoreHelping Sick Children to Die
In some ways, the story which prompted this post is nothing new. We have been helping sick children to die (even if one does not think of the fetus as a child) in the developed West for some time. The Groningen Protocol, which...
Read MoreEuthanasia: The Slope is Getting More Slippery
Marc and Eddy Verbessem were not terminally ill. They were not in any physical pain. The two Belgian brothers who were identical twins were born deaf and were beginning to go blind to a congenital form of glaucoma. They chose to...
Read MoreYet Another Slippery Slope: A Report on Ten Years of Euthanasia in Belgium
We often hear that worries about a euthanasia slippery slope are unfounded–especially when discussing public policy initiatives like Massachusetts’ recently-defeated Death with Dignity Act. In a previous post...
Read MoreEuthanasia: Is There a Slippery Slope?
A Canadian study and commentary on the global practices of euthanasia was released in November and has received much attention. It was highlighted by the New York Times, Peter Singer, and yesterday Andrew Sullivan noted it....
Read MoreA Persistent Personal State
A few weeks ago, I highlighted new evidence that many of those supposedly in a persistent ‘vegetative’ state are actually self-aware. We are now learning something similar about those currently diagnosed to be in...
Read MorePeople of No Morals
Two-thirds of young adults couldn’t name a moral dilemma, says David Brooks, citing a study done on that age group by University of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith. ‘I don’t really deal with right and...
Read MoreThe Self-Interested Motive Behind Euthanasia
In Lawrence MA, Judge Richard E. Welch III sentenced Kristen LaBrie to 8 to 10 years in prison for assault and battery on a child, reckless endangerment of a child, and the attempted murder of her 9 year old son. LaBrie was...
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