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They say the best place to keep an appointment with the devil is at a crossroads. We are again drawing near another political crossroads on health care. If we cannot move past our own diabolical short-sightedness and partisan tendencies this time, we will miss a historic opportunity to put our health care system on a path toward sustainability, fairness and common decency. It could be decades before the chance comes around again. We cannot afford to wait to reform our system. It is costing us too much as individuals and as a society. The current system regularly turns medical misfortune...

Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy. "On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged...

Alois Irlmaier was a dowser and well digger who lived in Freislassing, Bavaria. He was famous for his psychic abilities, and after World War II, many people sought his clairvoyant skills to locate their families and friends. Because of his fame, Irlmaier had a few enemies and was ridiculed and accused of being a warlock. But after appearing in court, the charges were dismissed, Irlmaier told the judge exactly what clothes the judge’s wife was wearing that day and what she was doing. Even though he had never seen her, he proved to be completely correct, and the judge released...

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National Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945 Posted By Marc S. Micozzi M.D. • November 1993 • Vol. 43/Issue 11 Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly. Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects...

Does anyone know what happened to the Catholic League for Relgious and Civil Rights website?

3. AUGUSTINE replied: What amazing folly, to disbelieve what Matthew records of Christ, while you believe Manichaeus! If Matthew is not to be believed because he was not present when Christ said, "I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill," was Manichaeus present, was he even born, when Christ appeared among men? According, then, to your rule, you should not believe anything that Manichaeus says of Christ. On the other hand, we refuse to believe what Manichaeus says of Christ; not because he was not present as a witness of Christ's words and actions, but...

St. Augustine Contra Faustum 17,3: "You ought to say plainly that you do not believe the Gospel of Christ. For to believe what you please, and not to believe what you please, is to believe yourselves, and not the Gospel."

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. St. Augustine of Hippo Sermons?

There's an icon of the Pope of Rome and the Patricarch of Constantinople in a church in Greece.

NY Medical College a Catholic medical school banned a Gay Lesbian Straight Transgender student group such life styles contradict Catholic moral teaching. Now a group called People of Every Orientation Protecting Liberty and Equality in Medicine is being allowed. This is GLBT under another name. The GLBT's purpose is to educate and inform the NYMC community of the health needs of the GLBT community." How are their health needs any different from any other human being except that they engage in risky sexual behavior at odds with Catholic moral teaching. The College claims disengenously that there's been a change in...