by Chyrene Cutting | Jun 6, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
What if you woke up tomorrow and found out you were blind? Fear, grief, despair— these may be some of the emotions you would feel. One can argue that a person does not need their vision to live. Yet, without it, a person’s quality of life could be changed forever. ...
by Francis X. Rocca | Feb 7, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Controversies over bioethical standards at U.S. Catholic hospitals show the need for greater Catholic education for health care workers, Vatican officials said Thursday (Feb. 3). Church leaders said a new set of biomedical guidelines will be...
by Monty Self | Jun 10, 2010 | Opinion
On May 20, J. Craig Venter announced that he and his team have successfully created “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer.” The announcement was followed by a flurry of sensationalist headlines. The...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Jan 23, 2004 | Opinion
The elderly widow cried as she told a visiting pastor about her husband’s death a decade earlier. My morally distressed congregant gave voice to a significant problem in pastoral care and bioethics, arising out of the lived experience of numerous family...
