Alfie Evans and Our Moral Crossroads
by Charles C. CamosyAs with Charlie Gard before him, Alfie Evans’s death is being pursued by the very people whose vocation it is to help and protect him. Continue Reading »
As with Charlie Gard before him, Alfie Evans’s death is being pursued by the very people whose vocation it is to help and protect him. Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide movement pretends to have a very limited agenda. But this is a lie. Continue Reading »
More and more countries favor policies permitting Alzheimer's patients to be euthanized. Continue Reading »
The Roman Catholic Brothers of Charity in Belgium have capitulated to their home country’s embrace of euthanasia. Continue Reading »
When we lose the distinction between killing and letting die, euthanasia starts to seem more plausible. Continue Reading »
Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But there is a concerted campaign to change this. Continue Reading »
♦ Michael Novak died in February. He was a pillar of First Things for more than two decades. Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael had been an ardent proponent of a number of progressive causes. Some of his early books about post–Vatican II Catholicism can make you blush. But in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Upon learning of his son’s fatal heart disease, a father arranges to donate his own heart in order to save his son’s life. The surgery will result in his death; his son will learn of it only after the fact. Should the hospital administrators allow the surgery to proceed?Ethicist Paul Ramsey . . . . Continue Reading »
In Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide an “effective referral”: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient. Cardinal Collins is fighting this abomination. Continue Reading »
Some Canadian bishops are failing the same test that caused Sebastian Rodrigues to stumble in Silence. Continue Reading »