The Parliament of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, has passed a law allowing people to choose assisted dying under certain circumstances. It was the last of the country's six states to enact such ...
Violent suicides increase in countries where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legalized, a new study shows. A 35-page study published in The Journal of Ethics in Mental Health Feb. 7 said not a single European ...
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 ...
Our Sunday Visitor chaplain Monsignor Owen Campion assesses a recent law passed in Chile that allows for same-gender marriages. Monsignor Campion writes that the passing of the law “was big news because Chile is overwhelmingly ...
New Zealand's Catholic bishops have prepared guidelines for health professionals, chaplains and priests to assist them in their pastoral work with people who decide to die under the country's End of Life Choice Act that ...
“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 ...
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Welcoming court's decision, leaders say it's time to build pro-life culture
Two leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops hailed the Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn the...
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