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Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk

Esteem elders and foster solidarity across generations

Occasionally we hear disturbing stories in the media about young people who perpetrate abuse against the elderly. In a widely reported 2009 story, for...

Of proxies and POLSTs: The good and the bad in end-of-life planning

Planning for end-of-life situations is important. We should put in place an advance directive before our health takes a serious turn for the worse...

Clearing the air around marijuana use

 A June 2014 article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), written by researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institutes...

Difficult moral decisions in brain death and pregnancy

CNN recently profiled the case of a woman named Marlise Munoz, who was both pregnant and brain dead. Its report noted that Mrs. Munoz...

The care of pregnant women in Catholic hospitals

At the beginning of December, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a sweeping federal lawsuit against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops over its...

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