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Almost every Monday, Mahon and several mothers stake out a small brick bungalow across the street from Holy Name Catholic Church, where about 180 families wait in line for bags of food. Babies chugging from bottles lounge in shopping carts, while toddlers diligently pile pebbles in the driveway. Mothers and...
Jurists and ethicists wrestle with the wider implications of measuring the value of life on a sliding scale. Once a society agrees that at some stage a life is no longer worth sustaining, patients are suddenly vulnerable. "We would begin with competent people making their own choice," warns Daniel Callahan...
But even within the community of faith there is a vast gray area. Though suffering and death underlie Judeo-Christian theology, basic compassion seems to dictate that a patient in terrible pain should be allowed to die. This is a proposition that the Roman Catholic Church appears to endorse. While...
"As proud Democrats, we ask, how can we not afford to meet the hopes and the needs of our citizens? That's the difference between the compassion of the Democratic Party and the cold heartedness of the Republicans," he added.
For thousands of runaway teenagers in New York City and other urban areas, Covenant House is the home that compassion built. Now the man who founded the nation's most successful program for runaways is himself in need of compassion. Father Bruce Ritter, 61, the energetic Franciscan who built Covenant...