The Fight for Eluana

The case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old comatose woman whose father received a court ruling allowing him to remove hydration and feeding care, is not over. The nuns who have been caring for her refused to participate in the euthanasia order, as did the entire region of Lombardy which would not allow its health facilities to be involved in the case. Instead, a Udine clinic is now "ready" to complete the killing.

However, a new development has stopped the process, an intervention by Minister of Health Maurizio Sacconi who stated that the suspension of treatment to the disabled is illegal. (Ansa.it)

Communion and Liberation: La Sapienza University, another disgrace for Italy

PRESS RELEASE
Communion and Liberation:
La Sapienza University, another disgrace for Italy

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Popes have been able to speak everywhere in the world (Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey, etc). The only place where the Pope cannot speak is La Sapienza, a University founded, after all, by a Pope.
This brings out two extremely grave facts:

1) The inability of the Italian Government to guarantee the right of expression in Italian territory of a foreign Head of State, and Bishop of Rome, spiritual guide for a billion people. In preventing what the vast majority of people expect and want, some small groups find, in fact, protection, even authoritative protection.

2) The cultural ruin of the Italian university which makes it possible for an athenaeum like La Sapienza to transform itself into an ideological “rubbish dump.”

As citizens and as Catholics we are indignant at what has happened and we are sorry for Benedict XVI, to whom we feel even more closely bound, acknowledging him as the defender—in virtue of his faith—of reason and freedom.

CL Press Office

Milan, January 15, 2008.