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Opponents of the legislation have warned that, if passed, the bill would lead to the deaths of many vulnerable people, normalize suicide and further significantly undermine the moral fabric of British society.
EDITORIAL: Experts stress that those who seek to end their lives this way generally do so because they feel abandoned by other human beings, not because of their illnesses.
Clergy and parishioners of dioceses across the United Kingdom are hearing from their bishops in advance of a vote next month to legalize assisted suicide.
EDITORIAL: The response to the Holy Father’s remarks on abortion and women says more about the capitulation of the once-Catholic country of Belgium to secularism than about the Church.
“Someone who truly had the ‘moral compass of a saint’ would condemn abortion as murder instead of supporting it enthusiastically as Vice President Harris does,” Catholic philosopher Edward Feser said.
Catholics will now have the option of using natural burial plots at St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery, about 25 miles outside of Chicago.
COMMENTARY: The exploration of what dignity means in different contexts will open new avenues for discussion, apologetics and evangelization.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said that the latest Vatican document is as much a reflection of Pope Francis’ pastoral thinking as it is a summary of the Church’s magisterial teaching that ‘the dignity of every human being prevails beyond all circumstances.’
COMMENTARY: ‘Man alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life ... This is the fundamental reason for his dignity. Being in the image of God, the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone.” (CCC 356)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that IVF is ‘morally unacceptable’ because it separates the marriage act from procreation and establishes ‘the domination of technology’ over human life.
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