Read a March 3, 2011, column at Patheos.com by a self-described progressive pastor, Bruce Epperly, who plans to go to a spa on Ash Wednesday and focus on enjoying the wonders of the everyday world.

Read  a Feb. 25, 2011 Catholic News Service story on an environmental approach to lent.

Read a Feb. 28, 2011, Religion News Service story about new approaches to marking Lent, including reducing greenhouse gases or abstaining from social networking sites like Facebook.

Mark J. Cherry is a philosophy professor at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He is co-editor of Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives (Georgetown University Press, 2003), senior associate editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, senior associate editor of Christian Bioethics and editor in chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum. His book For Sale by […]

Read a 1999 New York Times article about the highly controversial views of Peter Singer of Princeton University. Singer is a philosopher who applies a utilitarian approach to bioethics, and his ideas on infanticide, animal rights, euthanasia and rights of the disabled challenge much thinking in mainstream bioethics.

Read a view on xenotransplantation from the Vatican.

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Stephen Presser is Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History at Northwestern School of Law. His areas of expertise include business associations and legal history.