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In 1999, then-Governor George Bush of Texas signed a bill that enshrined what is called "futile care" policy into Texas law. The idea is that hospitals have the right to stop patient treatment if their ethics committee determine it is futile, even if the family of a patient disagrees. Wesley Smith takes up the story:…

Kansas City Catholic features one of the men ordained by the Pope on Sunday – the son of the Pope’s official photographer.

The new rector of an Iraq seminary is blunt: “Christians in Iraq are on their way to extinction, cut off from the country’s political process,” said Redemptorist Fr Bashar Warda, newly-appointed rector of the St Peter Major Seminary, which was recently moved from Baghdad to Ankawa (Kurdistan) for security reasons. Through AsiaNews he wants to…

Via the blog of Dr. Ben WItherington, a first-hand account of one of the funerals and a memorial service for the three Christian publisher employees killed last month in Turkey. I have attended many funerals, but this was my first in Turkey. And it was also the first time I attended the funeral of a…
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