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Read →The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) is urging the nation’s Catholics and other concerned citizens to speak out about part of Bill C-41, called “the Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards Act.” While increasing safeguards around Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) sounds promising, the bill has two parts, one of which Canada’s bishops say is problematic. The bill would prevent people whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness from accessing MAID, which the bishops called “a welcome step.” But the bill would also permit advance requests for euthanasia, allowing a per
Read →Canadian bishops urge change to euthanasia bill, Mosul honors two martyrs, Irish archbishop highlights how AI affects human trafficking, and more in this week’s Catholic world news roundup. [...]
Read →The bishops say Parliament should consider proposed advance requests for euthanasia separately from legislation extending the exclusion for mental illness
Read →Canadian bishops urge change to euthanasia bill, Mosul honors two martyrs, Irish archbishop highlights how AI affects human trafficking, and more in this week’s Catholic world news roundup.
Read →Canadian bishops urge change to euthanasia bill, Mosul honors two martyrs, Irish archbishop highlights how AI affects human trafficking, and more in this week’s Catholic world news roundup.
Read →The Holy See also questioned the committee chair’s assertion that the treaty is a “living instrument,” pointing out that this is inconsistent with the text of the treaty itself as well as the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The post Vatican Criticizes UN on Abortion appeared first on ZENIT - English .
Read →While the Vatican pressed for palliative care, respect for the elderly and support for the families who care for them, others advocated for radical interventions for aging individuals such as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). The post Euthanizing Elderly Debated at U.N.
Read →In a statement released on November 9, the Virginia-based institute identified the recipient as the United Workers Association (UWA), a Baltimore-based organisation which, according to its findings, helped establish a healthcare coalition campaigning for public funding of abortion The post Catholic Bishops’ Anti-Poverty Campaign Faces New Scrutiny over $805,000 in Grants to Pro-Abortion Activist Group appeared first on ZENIT - English .
Read →The Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts recently rebuked the commonwealth's Democratic Gov. Maura Healey for attempting to use her Catholic faith to justify a law she signed that permits abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Read →Massachusetts' bishops are slamming their so-called Catholic governor, Maura Healey, over the unrestricted abortion bill she signed into law back on August 10. Last Friday, Healey attached an emergency preamble to that legislation, making the law take effect immediately.
Read →The bishops wrote: “Having read the Governor’s editorial defending her decision to override the results of the Repeal188 efforts, we respectfully and passionately disagree that abortion, the taking of human The post Bishops rebuke Massachusetts governor for citing her Catholic Faith in support of abortion law appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →Andorra's laws carry a bishop's signature. Its government now wants one he won't give: an end to jail for women who abort.
Read →After Gov. Healey issued an emergency preamble to her abortion-on-demand law citing her Catholic faith, Catholic bishops had something to say about it.
Read →Canada once offered euthanasia to a Paralympian veteran who only wanted a wheelchair lift in her home. In Geneva on October 29, activists urged the United Nations to write a right...
Read →Andorra's laws carry a bishop's signature. Its government now wants one he won't give: an end to jail for women who abort.
Read →Maura Healey, governor of Massachusetts, has spoken publicly about her Catholic faith on several occasions. But when she invoked her faith as a reason for her controversial decision to enact immediately one of the most sweeping abortion laws in the U.S.
Read →The state’s bishops said the new “all-nine-months” abortion bill reflects a “utilitarian and merciless approach” to human life. [...]
Read →The governor has brought Chapter 188 into immediate effect despite a campaign that has gathered more than 100,000 signatures seeking its repeal
Read →Belgium’s Catholic hospitals lost their right to refuse euthanasia. France’s bishops want theirs protected before the new law takes effect.
Read →The state’s bishops said the new “all-nine-months” abortion bill reflects a “utilitarian and merciless approach” to human life.
Read →Belgium’s Catholic hospitals lost their right to refuse euthanasia. France’s bishops want theirs protected before the new law takes effect.
Read →Archbishop Henning and the state’s Catholic bishops urged lawmakers to reconsider a “merciless approach” to the vulnerable and the unborn.
Read →Contrary to Gov. Maura Healy, the state’s bishops said the new ‘all-nine-months’ abortion bill reflects a ‘utilitarian and merciless approach’ to human life.
Read →(OSV News) — The Catholic bishops of Massachusetts are pushing back on a decision by that state’s governor to expedite implementation of a controversial late-term abortion law — days after tens… The post Massachusetts bishops push back on governor’s move to expedite contested abortion law first appeared on OSV News .
Read →Massachusetts' four Catholic bishops criticized Gov. Maura Healey's decision on Nov.
Read →Two pro-abortion bills have passed the Polish Parliament but are not expected to become law. They have faced criticism from Poland’s bishops conference.
Read →Massachusetts Catholic bishops have condemned Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s use of emergency authority to implement a law allowing abortions up to birth.
Read →Also: NY archdiocese join nuns' lawsuit against assisted suicide; Sisters of Charity of New York 'troubled' by bishops' photo-op with Trump.
Read →As the U.S. bishops’ Pregnancy Help Appreciation Week takes place Nov.
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