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Dutch cardinal: Bishops warned of euthanasia’s slippery slope
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- August 2, 2017
The Netherlands became the world’s first country to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2002 and has since witnessed a rapid increase in related deaths, with 20 now occurring daily, according to a May report by the Regional Euthanasia Commission. A new assisted suicide bill, introduced in 2016, would allow healthy people suffering nonmedical conditions such as “loneliness, bereavement, limited mobility and decline from old age” to be helped to die by a nonprofessional “assistant-in-suicide.”
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Families are touched as more people donate organs
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- May 31, 2017
Nearly 118,000 people in the United States are waiting for a transplant, and more than 20 people die every day waiting for a suitable organ. The odds are long for most who are awaiting organs. Each year, the number of people on the waiting list grows, while only about 2 percent of donated organs can be used. Pope Francis has called the act of organ donation “a testimony of love for our neighbor.”
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Can a cyberattack trigger a ‘just war’?
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- May 25, 2017
Just war theory, rooted in the fifth-century writings of St. Augustine of Hippo, takes a middle ground between pacifism, which never allows for violence, and realpolitik, which is suspect of moral considerations in defense and warfare. Just war theory can be adapted to address technological innovation, but cyberattacks present unique questions to their victims, who often can’t figure out the perpetrators.
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The Perils of Sperm Donation 2.0
- Commentary
- April 30, 2017
There has been an explosion of new ways to donate and acquire sperm for artificial insemination. Particularly in the age of social media, conceiving children has become a business. Resisting this throwaway culture, the Church proposes a positive view of procreation’s connection to sexuality which understands children to be a gift, not something that we should have the freedom to purchase in a market.
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Catholic theologian says Trump border wall defies Church values
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- February 4, 2017
The Rev. Daniel G. Groody, an associate professor of theology at Notre Dame University in Indiana, said the wall would lead to a loss of life as migrants are forced to find other ways to escape poverty across the border.
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Catholics should be open but wary on brave new techno-world
- Commentary
- January 10, 2017
From automated cars to cheap 3D printing, technological advances now on the horizon are shaping a brave new world. The proper Catholic response is to discern, because such revolutions generally come with unintended negative consequences too.
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