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01.22.10

The D Word

In most published remembrances, loved ones dance around death — but does that really help anyone?
By Carlos Alcalá
The Sacramento Bee

Death is hard to find in death notices.

This is the time of year – January and February – when death rates are generally highest, according to the National Vital Statistics System.
The Bee and other newspapers tend to run more paid death notices at...

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Compassion Blog

How the opinion of one pope became the rule for all Americans

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), as I have written, recently mandated tube-feeding for all permanently unconscious patients in Catholic healthcare institutions. This contradicts the desires of the vast majority of Americans. The Bishops are indifferent and have decided to act as agents of the Vatican, even as they exercise enormous control over healthcare choices in America. How did they arrive at this position of arrogance?

The story of how one pope’s...

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