Sanctity of Life

Williams Glanville , The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law. (London: Faber and Faber, 1958).

Schweitzer Albert , The Teaching of Reverence for Life, trans. Richard and Clara Winston, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965).

Kohl marvin , The Morality of Killing. (New York: Humanities Press, 1974), p. 3.

Article, “The Sanctity of Life,” from Updating Life and Death, ed. Cutler, Donald., (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. 184 cited in Gula Richard , What are They Saying about Euthanasia, (New York: Paulist Press, 1986), p. 26.

Singer Peter , “Unsanctifying Human Life,” in Ethical Issues relating to Life and Death, ed. Ladd John , (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 41–61; see also, Kluge, Eike-Henner, The Practice of Death, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975).

Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Declaration on Euthanasia,” in Origins, vol 10, no. 10, Aug. 14, 1980, p. 155.

Batlin Margaret Pabst , Ethical Issues in Suicide. (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982), p. 112.

Kohl, op. cit., ch. 1, “The Sanctity-of-Life Principle,” pp. 3–23.

Gula Richard , What are They Saying about Moral Norms. (New York: Paulist Press, 1982), pp. 55–93; see also his What are They Saying about Euthanasia, op. cit., pp. 61-108.

Maguire Daniel , The Moral Revolution: A Christian Humanist Vision, (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986): “Therefore, with regard to the principle in question [the inviolability of human life], we can say that its absoluteness is, at the very least, doubtful … it can be said that in certain cases, direct positive intervention to bring on death may be morally possible” (p. 176). Furthermore, “Thus, the possibility of objective moral self-killing is an open question, and it may not be excluded that direct self-killing may be good moral action, in spite of the strong presumptions against it” (p. 177). See also his Death by Choice, (Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1978). Curran, Charles E., Politics, Medicine, and Christian Ethics, (Philadlphia: Fortress Press, 1973): “Thus, in conflict situations I would allow abortion to save human life or for other values that are commensurate with human life. This would obviously include grave but real threats to the psychological health of the woman and could also include other values of a socio-economic nature in extreme situations. I want to underline that these cases are comparatively rare and the values must be somewhat commensurate with life itself” (p. 131). And with regard to euthanasia, “Is there that great a difference to accept a shortening that one can readily avoid and to positively interfere to shorten the dying process?” (p. 161). Curran does not think so. See his Ongoing Revision: Studies in Moral Theology. (Notre Dame: Fides Publishers Inc., 1975), p. 160; also, with regard to direct killing of the innocent, Readings in Moral Theology, No. 1, ed., Curran, Charles E. and McCormick, Richard., (New York: Paulist Press, 1979), p. 345.

Dyck Arthur , “Beneficent Euthanasia and Benemortasia: Alternative Views of Mercy,” in Beneficent Euthanasia, ed, Kohl Marvin , (Buffalo: Prometheus Press, 1975), pp. 127–8.

Eser Albin , “‘Sanctity’ and ‘Quality’ of Life in a Historical-Comparative View,” in Suicide and Euthanasia, ed., Wallace Samuel , and Eser Albin , (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981), pp. 103–115.

Suicide and Euthanasia, ed., Wallace Samuel , and Eser Albin , (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981), p. 106.

Marx Paul , “Euthanasia Worldside,” The Linacre Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 3, Aug., 1990, pp. 27–32.

Fletcher Joseph , “The ‘Right’ to Live and the ‘Right’ to Die,’ in Beneficent Euthanasia, op. cit., p. 49.

Marker Rita , “The Ethical Values that Civil Law must Respect in the Field of Euthanasia,” The Linacre Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, Aug., 1989, pp. 22–35.

“Agios,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed., Kittel Gerhard , vol. I, trans. Bromiley, Goeffrey W., (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1974), pp. 88–110.

Otto Rudolf , The Idea of the Holy, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), pp. 5–24.

Eliade Mircea , The Sacred and the Profane, (New York: Harvest Book, 1959), p. 167.

French Bishops’ Commission on the Family, “Note: doctrine sur l'avortement,” (1971) in Biologie, medecine et ethique. Textes du Magistere catholique reunis et presentes par Patrick Verspieren, s.j., (Paris: Le Centurion, 1987), p. 74.

Biologie, medecine et ethique. Textes du Magistere catholique reunis et presentes par Patrick Verspieren, s.j., (Paris: Le Centurion, 1987), p. 71.

“Relation,” art. by Mattingly B. in New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XII, (New York: McGraw-Hill Col., 1966), pp. 216–219.

Summa Theologiae, I. q. 12, a, 4, ad 3; q. 45, a. 5, ad. 3; III, q. 1, a. 3, ad. 3; q. 7, a. 3, ad. 2, (Matriti: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1955). See also, Delubac Henri , The Mystery of the Supernatural. (New York: Herder, 1967), pp. 31–2.

Rahner Karl , “Concerning the Relationship between Nature and Grace,” in Theological Investigations, vol. 1, trans. Ernst, Cornelius, (Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1969), pp. 297–317.