Helping the vulnerable at risk for assisted suicide

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“It is nothing short of diabolical that we would respond to such vulnerable people by making it easier for them to kill themselves. Pope Francis sees this as part of our ‘throwaway culture’ — a slouch toward discarding those whose inherent dignity is inconvenient to acknowledge and accommodate, much less embrace.” - RNS

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Sentencing of Pastor Wang Yi Demonstrates Historic Threat to Christians in China

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“Major news outlets are reporting that a secretive court in China has sentenced detained Christian pastor Wang Yi to 9 years in prison for inciting subversion of the government. Yi is one of the country’s most famous Christian leaders who founded and leads a large, well-known house church in the country.” - RNS

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Clarence Thomas on the harmony of faith and reason

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“Christ’s famous admonition to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God (Mark 12:17) is widely regarded as radicalizing the Jewish conviction that the power of earthy rulers is limited by God’s divine law, a conviction that would become a crucial feature of the Western understanding of government power.” - Acton

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