The organ donation industry has routinely violated ethics standards.

The treasure of palliative care. By definition, people and cultures ‘treasure’ what they value. Jesus taught us that where our treasure is our heart is (Matt:6:21). St. Lawrence echoed this in the 3rd century when he told the Roman prefect that that the poor, sick and disabled -- not gold, art, and property – are the true treasures of the church.

Introduction Palliative care provided by teams of trained health workers in the clinic, hospital, or at home is designed to relieve the pain and discomfort that afflicts people who have been diagnosed with serious illness.[1] Palliative care teams know that something more can always be done for patients and families who have been sent home when their doctor rules that ‘nothing more can be done’ once their disease is no longer curable.

Each person is a sacred gift that reflects your face,from the first instant of existenceto the final breath of their journey on earth. Pope Leo’s July prayer message on Respect for Human Life aligns with today’s feast of St Thomas, one of the twelve apostles who reputedly founded the “St Thomas Christians” in Kerala, India. Many 3rd century historians documented Thomas’ post resurrection voyages to Syria, Malabar, and South India following his ecstatic, recognition of the Risen Lord.

Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting others. This dynamic—which is int...

Reorienting the global preparedness system to include humanitarian settings requires conceptual and operational shifts

Today is UHC Day, 2025. The world aspires to fairness when the UN agencies proclaim that access to affordable preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative care is essential to attain Agenda for Sustainable Development’s Target 3.8. Yet this new WHO Report on UHC development in 2025 shows that most people in the world still suffer financial hardship in accessing health services.

This week's Advent visions of the Kingdom, where lions lie down with lambs and eat straw, call to mind our vision of universal palliative care that supports all people suffering with serious illnesses, disabilities, and challenging end of life journeys. The fact that prophets such as Isaiah could envision and proclaim such a world, where practices of care for the meekest and most vulnerable among us are the norm rather than the exception as they are now, gestures to the validity of that world.

Pope Leo’s Message on 9th World Day of the Poor claimed that “the poor are not recipients of our pastoral care, but creative subjects who challenge us to find novel ways of living out the Gospel today. In the face of new forms of impoverishment, we can risk becoming hardened and resigned.” The 86 percent of the world’s people who lack palliative care…

Today's gospel about Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16:19-31) pinpoints why palliative care advocacy is so challenging. The rich man, oblivious to Lazarus languishing on his doorstep, didn’t experience compassion until he himself suffered the torments of hell after death. Only then did he notice Lazarus and beg him to “dip the tip of his finger in water” to cool his tongue.

Curing loneliness requires more than just socialization. It also requires cultivating spiritually fulfilling solitude.

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Some 50 people of faith, including the three Catholic bishops of San Diego, have signed up to stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters.

West Virginia's overdose data prove it: Officials misunderstood the problem, and patients paid the price.

My Jewish family was sheltered in a Christian village in Nazi-occupied France. Now I am a naturalized American citizen, but can I count on similar courage and good will from my neighbors?

The question of whether assisted dying is a treatment is of legal, philosophical, and clinical importance, write Gareth S Owen , Alex Ruck Keene , and Katherine Sleeman Assisted dying is back in UK ...

On June 14, Donald Trump will get the military parade he has long wanted, timed to coincide with his birthday, Flag Day, and the 250th Anniversary of the Army. Our flag, our troops, and our tax dollar...

Mary's soul magnifies the Lord when she visits Elizabeth, an older woman who finds herself pregnant, also following the message of an Angel, although in her case the message was delivered to Zechariah her husband. When the as yet-to-be-born John the Baptist leaps in Elizabeth's womb, alerting her to the fact that the younger woman, Mary, is carrying the Messiah, it is because his cousin Jesus, also yet to be born, has 'visited' him, has entered his energy field through the presence of his mother, Mary.

"We cannot be in heaven, as he is on earth, by divinity, but in him we can be there by love." St. Augustine, Sermon on the Ascension. St Augstine reminds us that Jesus is with us still, on earth, after his resurrection, and that we, while on earth can be in heaven by loving one another, by being hospice and palliative care volunteers and professional practitioners if we are so called.

The etymological relationship between the pallium presented at the Pope’s inauguration last week and advocacy for universal availability of palliative care (a clinical practice that shares the Lati…

The etymological relationship between the pallium presented at the Pope’s inauguration last week and advocacy for universal availability of palliative care (a clinical practice that shares the Latin root pallium or ‘cloak.’)[1]gestures towards the potential power of an Interfaith Palliative Care Advocacy Coalition. The late Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the symbolism of the pallium during his inauguration mass…