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Vatican’s changing line on end-of-life illustrates that hard cases make bad law

Thursday, August 15th, 2024
End-of-life

Hard cases, as the famous legal maxim holds, make bad law. The Vatican served up a reminder of the point this week with a new “little end-of-life lexicon,” which not-so-subtly amends an earlier Vatican ruling on the issue of withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from chronically ill patients 17 years ago. New end-of-life lexicon The Read more