Monthly Archives: February 2012

Life Matters: Love and Marriage As Rosa and Manuel walked up the aisle at their Golden Jubilee Mass, all in the church were deeply moved. Watching this touching celebration of 50 years of married love caused many friends and family … Continue reading →

Life Matters: Embryo Research The Nuremberg Code (1947) was prompted by the horrific and often deadly experimentation on human beings in Nazi concentration camps that came to light during the “Doctors’ Trials” before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. The main principles … Continue reading →

Life Matters: Persons with Disabilities It says a lot about a society when a group of obstetricians and geneticists needs to be told by an 11-year-old girl that her life is worth living. According to The New York Times, “Sarah” … Continue reading →

Life Matters: Abortion Through its post-abortion ministry, Project Rachel, the Catholic Church has been helping mothers and fathers find forgiveness and healing. Although abortions are advertised as simple procedures, the priests, staff, and counselors in diocesan Project Rachel networks know … Continue reading →

Life Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State “The sick person in a vegetative state, awaiting recovery or a natural end, still has the right to basic health care (nutrition, hydration, cleanliness, warmth, etc.), and to the prevention of complications related to … Continue reading →

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide “[N]othing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable … Continue reading →

Living Will and Advanced Directive The making of a “Living Will” presupposes that we know what kind of medical treatments we will want to use or avoid in the future. It speaks about treatments before we even know the disease; … Continue reading →