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M.D. – Doctores Mortis, Which is to Say, Doctors of Death
The 'most rewarding work she has ever done'.
So Dr. Ellen Wiebe describes her practice - such as it is - as a specialist in what is euphemistically called MAiD, or medical assistance in dying,...
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Paul set no store by the things that fill our visible world, any more than a man sets value on the withered grass of the field. As for tyrannical rulers or the people enraged...
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Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering,...
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To hope that any other will please me does wrong to my Spouse. I will be his who first chose me for himself. Executioner, why do you delay? If eyes that I do not...
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Just Do It
On this day in 1977, after a ten year hiatus, capital punishment resumed again in the United States, with the execution by firing squad of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who had murdered two men...
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All sins are despised by God, especially pride. My beloved, rebuke yourselves, and confess your own sins, so that God my elevate you (Saint Anthony of Egypt, +356)
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Cardinal Pell’s Last Words
I don't know the final, final words of Cardinal George Pell as he lay in his hospital bed, but here is the last article he had published, in the Spectator, a fitting testament to...
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The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. (Saint Hilary of Poitiers, +367)
