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A what-if nightmare for the Catholic Church: Pope in a coma

By Thomas Reese — August 16, 2022
(RNS) — Any procedure for removing an incapacitated pope should not be quick or easy, but it should be public.

After being trapped inside his own body for a decade, ‘ghost boy’ shares how faith sustained him

By Jonathan Merritt — May 28, 2015
A strange illness sent Martin Pistorius into a vegetative state where, unknown to those around him, he could still perceive and hear everything around him. A decade later, he emerged to tell the story of faith amid despair.

Ethicists criticize treatment of brain-dead patients

By Liz Szabo — January 10, 2014
(RNS) Many doctors are questioning continued medical procedures on a 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead nearly a month ago, calling interventions to provide nutrition to a dead body wrong and unethical.
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