Tag Archives : Roman Catholic Church

For months, a serious journal of the Italian Bishops Conference, the “Avvenire” remained distant from what is the main topic of conversation in Italy: the spicy life of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But when readers complained, saying the newspaper of the Catholic Church might have a moral obligation to denounce the divorce, relationships [...]

The court has ruled in favor of Eluana Englaro’s right to die. She has been in a coma for 17 years, since a car crash in 1992. The doctors at the private clinic where she has been recently transferred have already started to withhold food from her feeding tube. Her family has already allowed her to die. Now, her case is the subject of a fierce debate [...]