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Psychotherapy with a dying Vietnam veteran is described. In spite of a severe heart condition and HIV-positive diagnosis, the outspoken and provocative patient reverts to heroin and cocaine use early in the treatment. This causes a heart attack and interruption of treatment. The therapist maintains empathy, a solid bond is forged, and the patient returns, but under constrained circumstances. A turning point is reached, both in the treatment and in this final phase of the patient's life, with major life improvement ensuing. At death the patient leaves word to thank the therapist. This case exemplifies how the approach of death lends urgency to positive forces appropriate to life's final developmental stage, and how end-of-life therapy bolsters those forces.

… docemus et divinitus revelatum dogma esse definimus: Romanum Pontificem, cum ex cathedra loquitur, id est, cum omnium Christianorum pastoris et doctoris munere fungens pro suprema sua Apostolica auctoritate doctrinam de fide vel moribus ab universa Ecclesia tenendam definit, per assistentiam divinam ipsi in beato Petro promissam, ea infallibilitate pollere, qua divinus Redemptor Ecclesiam suam in definienda aoctrina de fide vel moribus instructam esse voluit; ideoque eiusmodi Romani Pontificis definitiones ex sese, non autem ex consensu Ecclesiae, irreformabiles esse.

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