The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne exist to love patients in their Rosary Hill Home in the suburbs of New York City as Christ himself. As assisted suicide goes into effect in Kathy Hochul's Empire State, that seems to mean: to crucify him again.

Day One for the euphemistically named Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) law is Aug. 5. Unless attempts to have the law halted or declared unconstitutional are successful, it puts the Catholic nuns in an impossible position: presenting and participating in assisted suicide as an option for their patients.

The Hawthorne Dominicans have a 42-bed nursing home where they provide free care for patients dying of cancer. They've been in operation for 125 years since the community was founded by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rose was a convert to Catholicism and took the religious name Mother Mary Alphonsa upon founding her community.

She started out with two rooms on the Lower........

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