Ethics
Charities fight changes on tax deductions
WASHINGTON (RNS) Most Americans who file income tax returns won't be affected by proposed changes in how charitable contributions are deducted, but that hasn't stopped charitable groups from lobbying Congress to fight any change in deductions as part of the "fiscal cliff'' negotiations. By Jackie Kucinich / USA Today.
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Godless funerals thrive in ‘post-Catholic’ Ireland
DUBLIN (RNS) Patricia Wojnar left a 32-year career in interior design to pursue a degree that wasn’t in demand: a master’s in bereavement studies.
Having seen four family members die early, she wanted to understand how to adapt.
As it turned out, the degree perfectly prepare...
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ETHICS: Do Americans really care how their clothes are made?
DHAKA, Bangladesh (RNS) Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good.
Making shirts in this packed metropolis of 12 million people, Sheuli Akhter, 20, made decent money — about $140 a month — by the impoverished standards of...
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Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
(RNS) News that scientists had for the first time recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos prompted dire warnings from religious leaders who say the research crosses a moral red line and could lead to designer babies.
Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, point man for the U.S....
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Pope Francis redirects employee bonuses to charity
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Vatican employees won't receive the special bonus they are traditionally awarded when a new pope is elected, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday (April 18), under orders from Pope Francis to give extra money to charity instead.
"On account of the difficult situ...
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‘Death cafes’ normalize a difficult, not morbid, topic
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(RNS) No one wants to talk about death at the dinner table, at a soccer game or at a party, says Lizzy Miles, a social worker in Columbus, Ohi...
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For aging religious leaders, is it still ‘till death us do part’?
(RNS) When aging religious leaders reach the top echelons of temporal and spiritual power, their followers have a certain expectation: Till death us do part.
But Pope Benedict XVI's surprise resignation has shifted that calculus, prompting introspection about traditional unders...
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Health experts laud pope’s decision to step down
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(RNS) Health experts on aging admired Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign the papacy, citing visible clues about his declining health and...
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Catholic hospital says fetus defense was ‘morally wrong’
(RNS) Legal advice trumped church teaching when a Catholic hospital in Colorado tried to defend itself in a wrongful death lawsuit by claiming that twin fetuses who died at the hospital in 2006, along with the mother, should not be considered persons.
After an uproar that prompted...
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Did anything really change for Cardinal Mahony?
(RNS) The quake that hit Los Angeles last Thursday (Jan. 31) was an ecclesiastical one, but still pretty earth-shaking for the Catholic Church: After the release of thousands of secret personnel files detailing decades of sexual abuse of children by clergy, Archbishop Jose Gomez pub...
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Doctors warn against ‘reproductive coercion’
(RNS) When a husband hides a wife's birth control pills or a boyfriend takes off a condom in the middle of sex in hopes of getting an unwilling girlfriend pregnant, that's a form of abuse called "reproductive coercion."
While researchers don't know exactly how common such coercion...
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