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CHILDREN/ The beauty of the unexpected

Luigi Ballerini

5/21/2012

LUIGI BALLERINI discusses the temptation to try to predict and control everything about our lives and our children, when the person is free to act in surprising ways.

The myth of “the good death” is behind the support to euthanasia and assisted suicide, but it hides a substantial undervaluation of life. The assertion of an unlimited “right” on own life is not so dissimilar to the claim of the state to kill people through the “legal” death penalty.

5/9/2012

AIDS/ Rose (Uganda): A prostitute with HIV is a human being who deserves love

INT. Rose Busingye

ROSE BUSINGYE, who cares for people living with HIV in Uganda, comments on what has happened in Greece, where officials posted photos of prostitutes infected with HIV on the internet.

4/12/2012

HIV/ WYA and AVSI: Focus on the dignity of the person

Editors

The World Youth Alliance held a conference in Rome on women’s health, focusing on HIV/AIDS, and featuring AVSI’s method of looking at the person and promoting his dignity. 

3/1/2012

AUSTRALIA/ Assisted suicide: Is it just in the interest of the patient?

INT. Lyle Shelton

LYLE SHELTON of the Australian Christian Lobby comments on the Supreme Court sentencing a man to jail for assisting a suicide and how euthanasia can be used to further other interests.

2/5/2012

HEALTH/ Purpose, Palliative Care, and Respect for Human Life

Adam MacLeod

ADAM MACLEOD writes on the Massachusetts doctors’ opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Aiding the deliberate destruction of human life has no place in the doctor’s job description

12/19/2011

VALUE OF LIFE/ The strange “courage” of a woman who preferred to abandon her child

Monica Mondo

A girl crossed paths with an unknown woman, and put a bundle in her hands, who ran to the nearest house of nuns, caring for the Child Jesus, incarnate this year even more than usual