Italy's Itch for Euthanasia

10 Oktober 2006 10:10

Life-and-Death Issue Coming to Fore

By Father John Flynn ROME, OCT. 9, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Debate over euthanasia has flared up in Italy following a plea by Piergiorgio Welby to be allowed to die. Welby, a 60-year-old who suffers from muscular dystrophy, sent a video to Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano. Welby has suffered from his ailment for many ye...

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Sekali Lagi, Hukuman Mati

09 Oktober 2006 11:42

Tanggal 22 September dini hari, di daerah Palu, tiga nyawa melayang diterjang timah panas. Eksekusi terhadap tiga terdakwa kerusuhan Poso, akhirnya dilaksanakan juga, walaupun diprotes sebagian masyarakat yang merasakan ketidakadilan dalam proses pengadilan. Banyak pihak menghendaki agar pemeriksaan dan pengadilan terh...

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The Regensburg Lecture and its importance for the Church’s ‘diplomacy’

07 Oktober 2006 15:04

Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of reaction to the Pope’s Lecture on 12 September in Germany from certain sectors of the Muslim world, the diplomacy of the Holy See, or the ‘the diplomacy of the Church’, showed that it is based precisely on same reason on which the Holy Father grounded his lectu...

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Cardinal Avery Dulles on Islam

07 Oktober 2006 02:00

by John L. Allen Jr.

Chistianity's original experts on Islam were neither impartial scholars nor specialists in inter-faith dialogue, but rough-and-tumble medieval apologists - that is to say, writers from the 7th through the 14th centuries whose aim, in no uncertain terms, was to show why Christianity is right and Islam is wrong. ...

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St. Francis, Minus the Myths; Rosary Power

06 Oktober 2006 14:50

By Elizabeth Lev

ROME, OCT. 5, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Last week I spent several days in Assisi with a pilgrimage group. It was a wonderful adventure tooling around the Umbrian countryside and praying at the sites of the great saints, but it was also an eye-opening experience for me to realize that the St. Francis venerated today is a p...

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Materialisme Dan Disposisi Dasar Negara Hukum

04 Oktober 2006 10:15

MATERIALISME adalah ajaran yang menekankan keunggulan faktor-faktor material atas yang spiritual dalam metafisika, teori nilai, fisiologi, epistimologi atau penjelasan historis. Ada beberapa macam materialisme, yaitu materialisme biologis, materialisme parsial, materialisme antropologis, materialisme dialektis, dan mat...

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Budaya Baru dan Radikalisme

03 Oktober 2006 14:31

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Media elektronik dan komputer memungkinkan pertukaran informasi dalam waktu singkat. Logika waktu pendek menjadi dominan. Pada gilirannya, logika ini mengubah kapitalisme. Teknik informasi ini menjamin mobilitas modal amat tinggi. Setiap saat pemodal bisa pindah ke perusahaan yang lebih menguntungkan (P Bourdieu,...

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