Italy's Constitutional Court has blocked a national referendum on legalizing euthanasia, saying it would violate constitutional protections of human life. The court, which ruled in 2019 against punishing a physician for assisting with the death of ...
When euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is legalized, "it starts to be regarded as a 'normal death,'" and even as the most desirable way of dying, said a professor from Belgium, where euthanasia has been legal ...
For over 100 years in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Sisters Servants of Mary have kept overnight vigil with the terminally ill in their homes, a ministry of such abundant charity that families caring ...
Canada's Catholic bishops said the possible pressures the country's new assisted suicide law will place on Canadians with mental illness or disabilities are "all too real, perilous and potentially destructive." In a statement April 8, the ...
An English bishop expressed solidarity with the family of a man on feeding tubes as a court decision on their removal was delayed pending an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Bishop Mark ...
Much attention was given to church teaching on assisted suicide and euthanasia when the Vatican released its Sept. 22 letter "'Samaritanus bonus,' on the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of Life," ...
With the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia in many countries, and questions concerning what is morally permissible regarding end-of-life care, the Vatican's doctrinal office released a 25-page letter offering "a moral and practical clarification" ...
In his new book, Father Jeffrey Kirby, a priest of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, explores the Church’s teaching on end-of-life care and tells the faithful not to wait before it’s too late to ...
"Every life is valuable, always," Pope Francis tweeted after offering prayers for Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old French man who died July 11, nine days after doctors stopped providing him with nutrition and hydration.
‘Euthanasia and assisted suicide are a defeat for all. We are called never to abandon those who are suffering.’
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