Quick Hits: News that demands comment on matters of life and death

The task of following news of interest to Catholics is probably safe only for bald people, who have no hair left to tear out. Here are some recent stories which cry for comment: The Pontifical Council of Death: I stole the name from one of the sources of this story, but it seems that the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life has offered a eulogy for the politician who had led the fight for legal abortion in Italy. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia noted that the deceased, Marco Pannella,