Ethics
Methodist bishop served as juror in Kevorkian trial
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Bishop Donald Ott is accustomed to leading Michigan's United Methodists, but for the last few weeks, he had a different job: foreman of the jury that acquitted Dr. Jack Kevorkian Friday (March 8) in Pontiac, Mich., of illegally aiding suicides.
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TOP STORY: ASSISTED SUICIDE
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-For many Americans, doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients has only begun to emerge as a high-profile public issue, on a par with abortion and capital punishment.
But after two major legal developments this week upholding...
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COMMENTARY: Ambivalent feelings about the right to die
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Robert F. Drinan is a Jesuit priest, former member of Congress and professor of law at Georgetown University.)
(RNS)-Whatever the verdict may be in Dr. Jack Kevorkian's trial on charges of violating Michigan's ban on assisted suicide, his conviction...
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TOP STORY: SPIRITUALITY: In search of inspiring stories, couple finds everyday heroics
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND (RNS)-The difference in Bruce and Julie Madsen is undeniable.
It's discernible in their faces, which are relaxed and lapse into easy smiles. Gone is the tension so apparent in those same faces nine months ago, along with the defensiveness. B...
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Murder victims’ families live with agonies that never heal
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-The death penalty debate yields a bitter side effect-the fresh agonies it inflicts on victims' families, who are trying to heal the most fearful emotional wounds.
Moral arguments over the basic dignity even of killers, doubts about j...
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TOP STORY: HOW TO DIE: Doctors divided over how and when to help people die
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Why should physicians help terminally ill patients end their lives? Here in Oregon the question is already out of date. For the past two years, the question here has been when _ and how.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to r...
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COMMENTARY: Food has the power to nurture the soul
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Each year at Thanksgiving, the scent of sage-stuffed turkey and cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie fills my house with the perfume of old memories. Like photographs, these aromas trigger nostalgic images of holidays past.
That food has the power to...
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COMMENTARY: Food has the power to nurture the soul
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Each year at Thanksgiving, the scent of sage-stuffed turkey and cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie fills my house with the perfume of old memories. Like photographs, these aromas trigger nostalgic images of holidays past.
That food has the power to...
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MEDITATION: Embracing his own death, Bernardin put Kevorkian to shame
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy is a writer living in Chicago.)
CHICAGO _ Cardinal Joseph Bernardin dressed conventionally, spoke in a zephyr-gentle voice and spent most of his life as a priest and a bishop behind a desk. In his 68 years on earth, he never led a demo...
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TOP STORY: MEDITATION: Embracing his own death, Bernardin puts Kevorkian to shame
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy is a writer living in Chicago.)
CHICAGO _ Cardinal Joseph Bernardin dresses conventionally, speaks in a zephyr-gentle voice and has spent most of his life as a priest and a bishop behind a desk. He has never led a demonstration, picket...
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