Organized by the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Days at the Capitol Jan. 28 and 29 brought some 200 pro-life advocates representing the Miami Archdiocese and the state's six dioceses. Participants -- who included members of Councils of Catholic Women, clergy,
Two U.S. archbishops urged support of a House concurrent resolution that calls for "comprehensive medical care" over suicide or assisted suicide for patients nearing the end of their lives.
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board looks at two recent statements that seem to contradict each other on the pastoral accompaniment for those who have chosen to die through assisted suicide. But true mercy, writes Pope Francis, “must lead others ever closer
This week’s editorial draws on the disturbing circumstances of assisted suicide. Last summer, an older couple from Maine killed themselves by swallowing sleeping pills. The couple was in good health at the time of the suicide. In the letter accompanying their obituary,
The National Council on Disability said in a new study that "the dangers and harms" physician-assisted suicide laws present to people with disabilities "appear to be as significant today" as they were in 1997 and 2005, when the council earlier analyzed the
Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland said he was "saddened to learn" that physician-assisted suicide and taxpayer-funded abortions will not face a statewide vote "despite the great opposition" to both laws.
The bishops of the Archdiocese of Seattle reiterated the Catholic Church's opposition to assisted suicide in response to a news report about a man who used a fatal drug combination to end his own life under Washington state's Death with Dignity Act.
A New Jersey state appeals court allowed a new law permitting assisted suicide to continue, overturning a lower court decision that temporary blocked the law.
METUCHEN, N.J. (CNS) — New Jersey’s new law allowing assisted suicide, effective Aug. 1, “points to an “utter failure” on the part of government and indeed all society, said Bishop James F. Checchio of Metuchen. It is the failure “to care truly,
‘Euthanasia and assisted suicide are a defeat for all. We are called never to abandon those who are suffering.’