“I know that God is the owner of life, but God doesn’t want to see me suffer.” Those are the words of Martha Sepúlveda, a 51-year-old Catholic from Colombia with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who, if ...
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that euthansia, like abortion, is a tragedy always and everywhere, and Catholics must oppose it. He writes: “Everywhere, this practice begins with the argument that the person selected for euthanasia would ...
Msgr. Owen Campion writes in his latest column that respect for human life experienced two serious setbacks as 2020 came to an end, and each occurred in a very unexpected place. In Spain, which is ...
Proposals to amend Dutch law to allow the euthanasia of children represent the latest descent down the "slippery slope" of the killing of patients by doctors, a cardinal said. The practice of euthanasia would continue to ...
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" ...
Euthanasia legislation is headed for the Spanish Senate and, if passed, it would be a defeat for human dignity and would affirm a self-centered view of life that proposes death as a solution to one's ...
Belgium's Brothers of Charity have cut ties with their 15 homes for psychiatric patients after the Vatican stripped the institutions of their Catholic status because euthanasia was permitted on their premises. Brother Rene Stockman, superior ...
A Dutch cardinal predicted that the number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands will surge after the country's highest court gave the green light to allow the killing of dementia patients no longer able to ...
A September ruling in a Quebec Court ruled that euthanasia must not be limited to patients whose deaths are ‘reasonably foreseeable,’ opening the door to euthenasia on demand. David Cook, the campaigns manager for ...
Sometimes people involved in ministry can be very out of touch on important issues. After overhearing a conversation where a deacon complained that his priest preached about abortion instead of euthanasia or assisted suicide, Teresa ...
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