The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment...
End of Life
Transforming today’s nursing homes
Is it possible to celebrate life when you are elderly, frail, and living in a nursing home? Staff...
With Jesus and my son in the garden of Gethsemane
On the night He was betrayed, Jesus went into the garden of Gethsemane and began the climactic...
The truth about death panels
When Sarah Palin predicted “death panels” were coming under Obamacare, she was sharply criticized...
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation: A healing mission for...
From Terri’s Schiavo’s collapse on February 25, 1990 to her hastened death on March 31, 2005...
Palliative care: The new stealth euthanasia
Since the mid-1990s, several influential grant makers have collaborated to “change how we die...
The nursing home and hospice checklist
In our culture of death, the safest arrangement for end-of-life care is families taking care of...
A saint in our midst
My wife Jennifer and I have two healthy, active boys: Jacob, six, and John Paul, three. In July...
Protect your family from the invisible holocaust
Anyone who’s been a patient has stories. But for every reassuring story, there is a shocking one...
Covenant Hospice: Pro-life to the end of life
After the infamous death of Terri Schiavo at Woodside Hospice in Florida, many Americans became...