Euthanasia

Pope Leo’s address will be significant not only because he heads the Church but because ” he is recognized worldwide as a moral and spiritual guide.”

Castillo did not need the Spanish state “to offer her death” but to give back “meaning, help, and the possibility of healing” in her life.

Conscience protections for health providers remain a key religious freedom concern, witnesses told the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission.

The state should not compel any organization “to participate in the deliberate ending of life when doing so would violate its ethical or religious principles.”

Catholics in France to hold a nationwide prayer and fasting initiative Feb. 20 to “ask the Lord to enlighten consciences on the gravity of the challenges posed” by an assisted …

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington and Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond hail the halt of a bill that would have legalized assisted suicide in Virginia.

OneLife LA, Archbishop Gomez said, is “a religious movement, a stirring of the heart and conscience. A movement of the Spirit.”

France’s bishops reaffirmed that “palliative care is the only truly effective response to the difficult situations of the end of life.”

Illinois has become the 12th state, along with the District of Columbia, to legalize assisted suicide, amid outcry among the state’s Catholic bishops and other pro-life and disability advocates.

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain illegal in Norway. However, public opinion on the practice has grown more favorable in recent years.