Alfie Evans and Our Moral Crossroads

by Charles C. Camosy

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 »

25 Apr 2018

Behind the Curtain of Assisted Suicide Advocacy

by Wesley J. Smith

The assisted suicide movement pretends to have a very limited agenda. But this is a lie. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2018

Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?

by Wesley J. Smith

More and more countries favor policies permitting Alzheimer's patients to be euthanized.  Continue Reading »

29 Sep 2017

Euthanasia and the Belgian Brothers of Charity

by Charles C. Camosy

The Roman Catholic Brothers of Charity in Belgium have capitulated to their home country’s embrace of euthanasia. Continue Reading »

26 Sep 2017

Je suis Charlie, Once More

by R. R. Reno

When we lose the distinction between killing and letting die, euthanasia starts to seem more plausible. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2017

Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!

by Wesley J. Smith

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 »

12 May 2017

While We’re at It

by R. R. Reno

♦ 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 »

1 Apr 2017

A Grim Harvest

by Allen H. Roberts II

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 »

1 Jan 2017

A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”

by George Weigel

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 »

28 Dec 2016

Suffering and Silence

by J. D. Flynn

Some Canadian bishops are failing the same test that caused Sebastian Rodrigues to stumble in Silence. Continue Reading »

20 Dec 2016