Recent Catholic Commentary

These are the consequence of centralizing healthcare under bureaucratic control. Deprofessionalization. Medicine practiced by the numbers. The most weak and vulnerable victimized. The tragedy of the Liverpool Care Pathway tells the awful tale. Originally designed to prevent NHS patients from dying in agony, the LCP was applied bluntly rather than in a nuanced and individualized manner. Patients were dehydrated to death. People were rendered unconscious who didn’t need that level of palliation. The well-intended LCP became a door for back door euthanasia. Now, it is being euthanized. From the Telegraph story: Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! The controversial Liverpool Care […]

Just after midnight Saturday when the Texas Senate passed HB 2, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (who presides over the Senate) tweeted that “Love wins tonight as the Texas Senate stood firmly on the right side of history.” The Texas Senate rejected 20 pro-abortion amendments and passed a bil to protect pain-capable unborn children 19-11. The bill passed the House earlier in the week. Pro-life Gov. Rick Perry, who has said he will sign the bill, issued a statement saying, “Today the Texas Legislature took its final step in our historic effort to protect life. This legislation builds on the strong […]

It pains me even to type what the sign said. But there it is. And sadly, it isn't some grumpy old feminist that's holding it. It's a young girl, judging by the photo, not more than in her mid teens, the grotesque, blasphemous message jarring bizarrely with her fresh young face. If it were a one-time thing, it might not merit mention. I'm not one who delights in finding the absolute worst in even my ideological foes, and pretending it accurately represents the whole movement. Anyone can troll Twitter and find people on both sides of any debate saying awful […]

The Dignitas suicide clinic in Basel Switzerland caused the death of Pietro D’Amico, a 62-year-old magistrate from Calabria in southern Italy, in April, 2013 after D'Amico received a wrong diagnosis. Dignitas is a suicide clinic that is operated by Ludwig Minella, a retired lawyer. Dignitas is known for encouraging the suicide deaths of foreign “suicide tourists” for a fee. An article that was published in Switzerland's english news service, The Local, stated: The father-of-one took the decision after a wrong diagnosis from Italian and Swiss doctors, his family's lawyer Michele Roccisano told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.  An autopsy carried out by the […]