4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (522+ words) The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has argued that Catholics can support an assisted suicide law if it is an alternative to more permissive laws. Speaking to the news outlet of the Italian bishops’ conference, Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (536+ words) Here’s a recap of this week’s Catholic news from the US, Britain, Europe and the Holy Land, including developments on immigration enforcement and assisted suicide. Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne has said he was deeply shaken by witnessing the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (621+ words) Bishop Marcus Stock of Leeds has called “assisted dying” a euphemism for assisted suicide, arguing that palliative care allows people to “properly be assisted to die with dignity.” The statement comes ahead of the second reading and vote on the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (540+ words) A Catholic church in Salem, Oregon, was rededicated on Monday, three years to the day after it was severely damaged in an arson attack. St Joseph’s Catholic Church, the oldest Catholic church in Salem, was rededicated in a Mass celebrated…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (383+ words) The coming week will see developments on assisted suicide in Britain and Illinois, the aftermath of Archbishop Gallagher’s Moscow visit and the expected verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Another consequence of the debate surrounding assisted suicide has been the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (344+ words) The Archbishop of Paris has said that the adoption of assisted suicide in France is “not the end of the fight”, stating that “nothing should force us to make them as realities in our lives”. The new law legalising the…...