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Commentary and more links return Tuesday. We're taking Monday off for U.S. Memorial Day.

Court allows assisted suicide:

• Court rules on aided suicide | Appeals panel says Ashcroft overstepped bounds in Oregon (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Ore. right-to-die law wins second battle | The state's landmark right-to-die law has survived a second challenge in federal court by the Bush administration and supporters hope that means the 10-year battle over the law has finally been settled (Associated Press)
  
  
• Court defends Oregon euthanasia | A US appeals court has blocked attempts by the Bush administration to stop Oregon doctors helping terminally ill patients commit suicide (BBC)
  
  
• Court upholds assisted suicide | A federal appeals court yesterday upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law, saying U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's bid to outlaw it "far exceeds the scope of his authority under federal law." (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Court upholds assisted suicide | A federal appeals court yesterday upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law, saying U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's bid to outlaw it "far exceeds the scope of his authority under federal law" (The Washington Times)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Schiavo's struggle | Let her loving parents care for their living daughter (Delroy Murdock, National Review Online)
  
  
• Inflated promise, distorted facts | As senators make moves, a walk through the stem-cell fray (Eric Cohen, National Review Online)
  
  
• Bioethics bestseller | A government council revives the humanities (Claire Burgess, National Review Online)
  
  

Catholicism & politics:

• Group asks IRS to probe Colo. diocese | Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, said the church should lose its tax-exempt status because it used church resources for political purposes (Associated Press)
  
  
• A political sacrament | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops and the Democratic Party are headed for a politically charged collision over abortion (Kenneth L. Woodward, The New York Times)
  
  
• No communion for contrary Catholics: a good idea? | For practicing Roman Catholics, to be denied communion is the most grievous punishment possible short of excommunication from the church (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Man objects to Communion for gay group | This Sunday at the Cathedral of St. Paul, a 1960s liberal anti-war activist turned orthodox church layman plans to stand — literally — in the way of gay Catholics and their supporters to prevent them from taking Holy Communion (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Protester plans to prevent gays from receiving Communion | Gay Roman Catholics and their supporters will have to get past David Pence on Sunday if they want to take Holy Communion on Pentecost at the Cathedral of St. Paul (Associated Press)
  
  
• Playing politics at the altar | Much is fueled by right-wing Catholics hoping to bolster Republicans in the elections and to distract attention from the church's sex-abuse crisis (Albert Hunt, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Cardinal Keeler calls for keeping politics out of Communion | Issue is between Catholic and conscience, he says (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Diocese may end donations to group | The Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs is threatening to withdraw its financial support for the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission unless the group takes a stand against abortion and homosexuality (The Gazette, Colorado Springs)
  
  
• Survey: Bishops shouldn't pressure voters | About 71 percent of American voters believe U.S. Roman Catholic bishops should not publicly pressure Catholic politicians on abortion, according to a survey released Thursday (Associated Press)
  
  

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