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An international group of theologians and scholars released an academic statement on May 4 alleging inconsistencies in the Vatican s arguments against same-sex relationships, and urging the church to review its stance in light of modern research. When people suffer . because of doctrines, laws and disciplines, about whose correctness there are now well-founded doubts, the competent Church authorities have a religious and Christian duty to carefully and empathetically revise them, wrote theologian Fr. Krzysztof Charamsa, a former official at the Vatican s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in the foreword to the statement.
The authors argued that the Bible never condemns consensual, faithful same-sex relationships. They also said evidence that non-heterosexual orientations occur naturally and the fact that the church allows infertile straight couples to marry undermine the Vatican s natural law arguments against same-sex relationship
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March 16, 2021
Robert J. Levine, MD, professor emeritus of internal medicine, passed away peacefully on February 25, 2021, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut, where he resided with his wife of 33 years, Jeralea Hesse. Levine joined the faculty at Yale School of Medicine in 1964. He served for 30 years as the chair of the Human Investigation Committee and was well known nationally and internationally for his pivotal work in human subjects research. His book, titled
Ethics and the Regulation of Clinical Research, and published in 1981 with a second edition in 1986, became required reading for every Institutional Review Board member.
Levine first came to Yale in 1962 as a chief medical resident at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven after completing his training at George Washington University, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the National Heart Institute (now known as the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute). He returned to the National Heart Institute for a ye
An Alzheimer s patient, he died nine days later from transfer trauma. We had just paid our fees for that month, we had to find a place and then pay our fees all over again for that month . we had to outfit another room, said Imthurn, a Maple Hill resident. So after we had gone through all [that], he died.
Nearly a decade later, Imthurn is still pushing for change. She hopes Kansas House Bill 2004, named Charlie s Bill, will pass this legislative session and put into statute the right for assisted living facility residents to appeal an involuntary discharge.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ron Highland, R-Wamego, had a previous attempt last year but died in a COVID-19-shortened session.