Network News

  • Cardinal Pell Warns Against Acceptance of Euthanasia
  • 6/21/2011
  • (Catholic Culture) - Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia, argues that the Catholic Church must lead the public fight against acceptance of euthanasia, recognizing that many young people "are moral relativists at least in matters of sexuality and questions of life and death."
  • Wounded Warrior Project Helps Injured Soldiers Gain Independence
  • 6/20/2011
  • (mlive.com) - Mike Elder considers it his good fortune the Wounded Warrior Project began about the same time he returned home from Afghanistan. Elder, a sergeant with the Army National Guard, was happy with the medical care he received at Fort Campbell, Ky., after he was injured in an accident on a mountain road.
  • Determined to Recover, Daughter Gets Diploma
  • 6/19/2011
  • (Seacoastonline.com) - It was an emotional but happy night for Bill Gott as he watched as his daughter, Myla, make her way to the graduation podium Friday night to receive her diploma from Winnacunnet High School.
  • Peter Singer Believes His Views Are "Objective Truth"
  • 6/18/2011
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - Peter Singer reviews a new book called On What Matters in his syndicated column. Philosopher Derek Parfit apparently argues that there is such a thing as objective truth, and indeed, that we need to find "what really matters" if life is to have any ultimate meaning.
  • Community Medical Center Offers Brain Injury Treatment for Veterans
  • 6/17/2011
  • (Missoulian) - A reality of modern-day war is that more and more soldiers return home with traumatic brain injuries. In a 2009 report, Pentagon officials estimated that 360,000 service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffered a brain injury during deployment, and 45,000 to 90,000 of those soldiers have lasting symptoms and need specialized rehabilitative care.
  • US Rep. Giffords Going Home: Could Help Stimulate Her Progress
  • 6/16/2011
  • (AP) - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has returned home to continue her recovery from a devastating head wound, but will make daily trips to the Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her five months ago. Giffords' departure Wednesday from Houston's TIRR Memorial Hermann marks a new phase in her rehabilitation. She struggles to speak and walk, and will need daily, intensive therapy.
  • BBC Airs Assisted Suicide
  • 6/15/2011
  • (NRLC) - By the time you read this post, television will have hit a new low. The BBC will have aired "Choosing to Die," a documentary in which Peter Smedley, a 71-year-old millionaire hotel owner with Lou Gehrig's disease, takes a lethal dose of barbiturates at "Dignitas," an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. The project is the brainchild of Sir Terry Pratchett, a science fiction writer and vocal proponent of assisted suicide, about whom we've written several times, most recently last month.
  • Brain Injuries More Common Than People Think
  • 6/14/2011
  • (Salisbury Post) - Nestled down a road that seems dedicated to farms - Black Farms Road is lined with farms and trees - is Hinds' Feet Farm, a small therapeutic farm designed to help sufferers of traumatic brain injuries.
  • Terri's Life & Hope Concert Huge Success!
  • 6/13/2011
  • Close to a sellout crowd of 4,200 people attended the 2nd annual Life & Hope concert Sunday evening at the Fraze Pavilion.
  • Terri's Life & Hope Concert Tonight!
  • 6/12/2011
  • Tonight, The Beach Boys with special guest, John Stamos, will headline the 2nd annual Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Concert at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, Ohio!