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Italy: In Defense of the “Right to die”

Bernardo Parrella · 12:54, February 10th, 2009 · Breaking News , Freedom of Speech

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A legal battle over a young woman's 'right to die' after 17 years in a coma has spurred both vast online commentary and activism in Italy. Mostly in defense of "Eluana Englaro's choice", Italian netizens have signed petitions, organized protests, and made YouTube videos of their own 'living will' testimonies, in defiance of both prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Vatican. 6 comments · read »

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April 22nd, 2008

U.S. Papal Visit: The World Reacts

Jillian C. York · 18:31 · Diaspora , Elections

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As Pope Benedict XVI makes his first papal visit to the United States, the media and blogosphere are in a frenzy - primarily due to the sexual abuse scandal that shook the foundation of the American Catholic church six years ago. The Pope addressed the issue in Washington D.C. on Thursday, speaking with victims of sexual abuses, which pleased some bloggers but for others was too little too late. 1 comment · read »

Links about Vatican City

October 28th, 2008

Human Rights

Lou Gold, a North-American blogger and nature-person turned “brasileiro', blogs about [En] Grandma Aggie and the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, re-telling some of the adventures of these courageous indigenous ladies and their recent efforts to get the Pope to rescind the Papal Bulls that created the “right” to take native lands.

April 18th, 2008

Children

Antônio Mello, from blogdomello[Pt], blogs about “Sex, Crime and the Vatican” — a BBC documentary (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4)[En, subtitles in Pt] about children sexual abuse by catholic priests and the shelter provided by the Vatican to the accused ecclesiastics — and a Vatican internal document named Crimen Sollicitationis, reportedly signed in 1962 by Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, that “said that if you were molested by a priest, you could complain to the bishop, to the cardinal, to the pope, but if you denounced the case to Justice, you would be excommunicated.”

April 25th, 2007

Ideas

Israel-based blogger Aussie Dave discusses what he sees as The Vatican's double standards when it comes to terrorism.

Ideas

Israel-based blogger Aussie Dave discusses what he sees as The Vatican's double standards when it comes to terrorism.

February 21st, 2007

Religion

A top Egyptian clergyman, Shaikh Mohammed Tantawi,May 18th, 2006

Governance

Simon at Simon World looks at the Chinese government's decision this week to spurn the Vatican and appoint their own Bishops:

“Naturally, this debate boils right down to control over Chinese civil society, and whether the Chinese government will tolerate any form of civil pluralism or alternate authority hierarchies in the country, or whether the corporatist model it has adopted will dominate social and even religious life in China, in all its aspects, for the forseeable future.”

May 3rd, 2006

Development

China Confidential's Confidential Reporter gives a second look at rapidly-deteriorating relations between the Communists in Beijing and the Catholics in the Vatican, preceded with one long dire post: at least twenty-four dead in a coal mine collapse in the Northwestern province of Shaanxi this past weekend, and toxic dumping in the Southwestern of Guangdong.

“Booming China is also Polluting China—an environmental nightmare on a scale that few foreigners can appreciate,” writes the anonymouse blogger. “On this note, officials in southern China reported Saturday that a chemical factory illegally discharged waste water into a river, affecting the drinking supply of about 40,000 people.”

Comments on "Vatican City"

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Italy: In Defense of the "Right to die"

more than "euthanasia", i think here it's more correct to talk about the "right to die" and esp...
Life is a precious asset, but belongs exclusively to each of us. We all have the right to choos...
thanks a lot, roberto, for your contribution (translations included ;) indeed, the situation...