Articles on this issue "handicapped"
The founder of LArche communities presented John Paul IIs Lenten Message for 2002 this morning in the Vatican Press Office. Canadian Jean Vanier, born in 1928, founded LArche in France in …
read moreFifty handicapped people will join a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to pray and appeal for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. "We are not, nor do we wish to become, martyrs," Antonio Diella …
read moreExecuting the mentally retarded is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by both the federal and state constitutions, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled, the Associated Press reported. …
read moreJohn Paul II appealed for the full social integration of the handicapped, on the occasion of todays U.N. Day of the Handicapped. While addressing pilgrims gathered at St. Peters Square, the …
read moreA new abortion law in France is facing unexpected opposition -- from doctors. "The law is the law, but the stomach rebels" at the prospect of a later-term abortion, a doctor told the newspaper …
read moreAn illegal trade in children is skirting Russian law by having healthy youngsters declared handicapped, clearing the way for them to be sold to Westerners who pay up to $50,000 a child, a …
read moreThe Missionaries of Charity on Wednesday will mark their first anniversary of residence in the Old City of Jerusalem. Their simple home, by the Jaffa Door near the headquarters of the Latin …
read moreGovernor Rick Perry today vetoed a bill to ban the execution of mentally retarded death row inmates, saying the state already has safeguards in place to protect them, the Associated Press …
read moreU.S. Catholic bishops pledged to continue to fight the death penalty as they publicly manifested their disapproval of Timothy McVeighs execution Monday. "In an age where respect for life is …
read moreA new law allowing the sterilization of the severely mentally handicapped is a step toward "state eugenics," warn Frances bishops. The final version of the law on abortion and contraception …
read moreThe Texas legislature has approved a measure that would ban the execution of convicted killers who are found to be mentally retarded, Reuters reported. Both the House of Representatives and …
read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether the Constitution bars the execution of mentally retarded people as "cruel and unusual punishment, the Associated Press reported. The …
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