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...events around John Paul's death after the Vatican took a hard line in a controversy last year in Italy over euthanasia. Indeed her accusations are grave, questioning the Catholic Church's strictly traditional stances on medical ethics, including the dictum from John Paul's own 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae to use all modern means possible to avoid death. (See the cover of the commemorative issue honoring John Paul's passing...
...there is little evidence of one. Ten years ago, Pope John Paul II signed the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which deemed euthanasia a "crime that no human law can claim to legitimize." "There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws," the encyclical reads. "Instead, there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection." Many Europeans, though, seem content to leave harrowing decisions like those in the Schiavo case to the consciences of families and physicians...
Pope John Paul II issued his Evangelium Vitae, or "Gospel of Life," a sweeping encyclical letter, in which he not unexpectedly denounced abortion, euthanasia and the "culture of death." He also condemned the widespread imposition of the death penalty, saying it should be used only in "cases of absolute necessity," which he said are "very rare, if not practically nonexistent." Conscience itself, John Paul wrote, has been "darkened ... by such widespread conditioning...
...examination in Greek mytho- logy, ten books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, I and II Kings, the four Gospels, Acts, Revelation) and of the Apocrypha; Judith, Susanna, Tobit, and the Proto-Evangelium. This examination is normally given in November...
...Lecture. (In German). "Christentum und Hellenismus, III. Das Evangelium des Menschensohns," by Professor Ernst von Dobschutz, in Emerson...