RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DURING COVID-10 (Podcast)
Michael Vacca of the Christ Medicus Foundation joins NCBC’s Joe Zalot to discuss how First Amendment religious liberty protections have been challenged during the coronavirus pandemic.
ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY MEANS
In assessing when there is a duty to preserve life, the Church distinguishes between ordinary and extraordinary means.[1] Ordinary means must be taken to preserve life, and extraordinary means can be morally refused.[2] It is, therefore, critical to properly characterize particular means of preserving human life as ordinary or extraordinary, that is, as morally obligatory …