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Reporter turned Catholic columnist and author wants Catholics to take a stand.

Phoenix, AR (October 16, 2009) — Former NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter and PEOPLE MAGAZINE turned author and Catholic columnist Chris Benguhe gave up everything and walked away from life in the spotlights to help others find their inner light! Now he wants the rest of America’s Catholics to walk away from mainstream politics to forge their own “moral majority” with respect for humanity as the basis of their platform. And the current healthcare debate is a good place to start.

“We all have a divine right to life,” says Benguhe, “and we do not receive that from the government but from our Creator.”

Benguhe believes that we all should take care of our nation’s less fortunate people, and those that are ill are definitely high on that list, but he is concerned that current plans are focused too much on limiting and controlling life instead of serving and respecting it to the utmost. He voices his concerns in his latest column.

“--there is the very real concern for whether or not the government should have the right to decide quality-of-life and length-of-life issues,” writes Benguhe. “Though the bills currently proposed do not implicitly endorse euthanasia, as some overzealous pundits have stated, they do paint a picture of a new government health care system that will pick and choose who deserves what level of care. That could lead to government deciding ultimately who will live and who will die.”

Benguhe believes its time for 70 million plus Catholics to stick to their guns to stand up for their human values and lead the way by finding a healthcare solution that inspires and reiterates the value of human life, rather than one which focuses on Government dominion over it.

“Personally, I think it might make a lot more sense to build on what so many others have worked to create — making it better, helping to make coverage available to those who don’t have it through cooperatives, lowering premiums with subsidies, and increasing our nation’s commitment to faith-based human services charities,” explains Benguhe. “In a nation as wealthy as ours, that shouldn’t be too difficult.”

Read the whole column at http://www.catholicsun.org/columns/chris-benguhe/101509.html

Benguhe’s latest book “Overcoming Life’s 7 Common Tragedies: Opportunities for Discovering God,” examines the positive potential of tragedy to bring people closer to each other and to realize their ultimate purpose and includes revealing interviews with Terry Schiavo’s brother, Enron victims, cancer survivors and more. It is available at Amazon.com or your local bookstore.

He also pens a regular column for The Catholic Sun in Phoenix, Ariz.

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