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The proper use of pain medications, in the final analysis, requires a balanced approach, attending to objective indications from the patient, so clinicians can offer sufficient comfort and remediation of their pain.

Human organs and tissues, because of their close proximity and connection to our human identity, cannot be reduced to commodities to be acquired or sold on an open market.

Although we are creatures intended for life, we may not be entirely clear about how we came to possess that life.

The reality behind medical marijuana is far from the rosy view painted by advocates.

Sex ultimately speaks of giving our self, and receiving another, in a total, rather than a fragmentary way.

The plethora of these cases also reminds us how many of the cavalier approaches to human procreation being promoted by the fertility industry are unethical at their core.

These lawsuits rely on fundamentally flawed logic.

Experts fail to acknowledge that self-restraint is possible and morally required, especially in the face of life-threatening disease.

Suicide affects us not only in the here and now, but has significant, even eternal, implications for the journey to that “undiscovered country” that awaits us.

The Church’s ageless but countercultural teaching on contraception respects and uplifts women.

We must flee the tyranny of false autonomy if our lives are to be authentically marked by human freedom in its full splendor.

A great deal of care is needed not only for us to avoid committing certain evils, but also to avoid making a referral for those evils to be carried out by others.

The Catholic Church has long affirmed that married love has a twofold significance, being ordered both toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring.

This attitude of seeing our offspring as expendable is becoming more widely accepted.

Although there are not any fundamental moral objections to donating our bodies to science, certain details of how the donation is carried out are important.

Cheating through doping involves an attempt to step outside these rules and suppositions, and play a different game.

The basic premise behind some alternative medicines can also be highly suspect.

We must renounce wrongdoing and resolutely embrace the freedom of the sons and daughters of God.

New medical discoveries and technological developments challenge us to careful moral reflection and discernment.

Cohabitation is clearly bad for men, worse for women, and terrible for children.