WALTHAM — At the same time that Beacon Hill lawmakers were swept up in the frenzy over how to handle a series of explosive sexual assault allegations lodged against the civil-law husband of Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, the Massachusetts Medical Society — the statewide association representing doctors and medical students — quietly announced it has dropped its opposition to physician-assisted suicide.
The MMS vote, held Saturday by the association's governing body, the House of Delegates, decided by a 2-1 vote that association will now be adopting a neutral approach to the controversial practice.
Three Catholic thinkers are starting small but aiming high: the re-evangelization of New England along Christian principles.
The scholars kicked off the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture with a press conference and social gathering Monday night at Mercy Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire, a building owned by Thomas More College.
