ROME — Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, said Sunday progressive legislation allowing abortion and euthanasia represents both a loss of faith and a “loss of reason.”
A police investigation into hundreds of lives allegedly shortened by the wrongful administration of opioids at an NHS hospital has been expanded to include the review of 15,000 death certificates.
Portugal’s high court ruled Monday that a law allowing “medically assisted death” passed by parliament in January is unconstitutional.
The Catholic bishops of Ireland have forcefully criticized the Dying with Dignity Bill, calling assisted suicide “a failure of compassion on the part of society.”
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has voted in the nation’s general election, a week before polls officially close.
No good intentions can justify the intentional killing of an innocent person, the Vatican reiterated Tuesday in a new document condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The Netherlands’ highest court ruled that doctors can carry out euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia.
All suffering is a “mystery,” writes the newly acquitted and released Cardinal George Pell in an Easter message, but Christianity offers tools to embrace it and make it fruitful.
Dutch doctors are asking their older patients to choose between either long-term ventilation or letting nature take its course if they become infected with the Chinese coronavirus.
The Spanish parliament has approved a proposed law by the new Socialist-led government to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.
A Dutch organization that carries out euthanasia received 3,122 requests last year, a 22% increase from the year before.
Pope Francis urged healthcare workers to defend the inviolable right to life from conception to natural death, urging them this weekend to resist euthanasia, abortion, and other crimes against life.
ROME — Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths signed a joint declaration in the Vatican Monday condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide as “inherently” evil acts that should be prohibited.
Medicine must always serve the integral good of the person and never become a tool for doing evil, Pope Francis told a delegation of Italian doctors this weekend.
A Dutch court ruled Wednesday a doctor accused of forcibly euthanizing a 74-year-old woman with dementia had fulfilled “all requirements of the euthanasia legislation.”
A “population control” proposal pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will target “black and brown” people, unborn children, the sick, and elderly people, said Dr. Alveda King, director of Priests for Life’s Civil Rights for the Unborn project and the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.
Pope Francis spoke out strongly against the practice of euthanasia this week, saying that it embodies a utilitarian vision that dehumanizes people.
Pope Francis has weighed in on the case of a Dutch girl who committed suicide after enduring a rape as a child, calling for greater care for those who are tempted to despair.
Reports on Wednesday corrected a widespread story that a 17-year-old Dutch girl who died at her home Sunday had been euthanized, noting that she committed suicide.
A 17-year-old Dutch girl was euthanized at her home on Sunday after saying that the trauma of being raped as a child made her feel she couldn’t keep living.
The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life used powerful words Wednesday to condemn the culture of death, calling modern practices such as abortion and euthanasia “evils” from which the world must “flee in horror.”
The Vatican has issued a rare statement protesting attempts to euthanize Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old Frenchman left disabled by a road accident in 2008.
A Paris appeals court Monday ordered the resumption of basic care for Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old quadriplegic whose nutrition and hydration had been discontinued.
French doctors have begun the procedure of forcibly euthanizing Vincent Lambert by removing the nourishment and water necessary for him to continue living.
The Trump administration announced on the National Day of Prayer Thursday its final rule that protects the conscience rights of healthcare workers and other entities.
Linda Roberts and Mary-Beth Tomaselli of Florida were arrested on Tuesday for the alleged murder of their father, 85-year-old Anthony Tomaselli.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s highest court has ruled that the family of a patient in a persistently vegetative state does not need to seek a court’s permission to have life support removed.
The three mainstream U.S. television networks have heaped attention on the new little British prince while silencing the heartbreaking story of little Alfie Evans who is fighting for his life against attempts by the British state to euthanize him.
The police of Merseyside England have issued a thinly veiled threat against all users of social media who defend the life of Alfie Evans and accuse the Alder Hey Hospital of gross misconduct in holding him prisoner against his parents’ wishes.
A UK High Court judge has rejected appeals by the parents of the sick toddler Alfie Evans to fly their son to Rome for treatment, after appeals by Pope Francis and the granting of Italian citizenship to the child.
(AP) — In a rare series of moves, Dutch authorities are investigating whether doctors may have committed crimes in five euthanasia cases, including the deaths of two women with advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
Pope Francis has asked that the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù children’s hospital to “do everything possible” to be able to receive little Alfie Evans, the British child whom doctors are prepared to euthanize.
The father of little Alfie Evans met with Pope Francis in the Vatican Wednesday and pleaded with him to help save his son, who has been sentenced to be euthanized against his parents’ wishes.
Pope Francis has called for respect for the lives of two disabled persons due to be euthanized, urging prayers for Vincent Lambert in France and Alfie Evans in England.
The Sebastopol Hospital in Reims, France, has ordered the removal of food and water from their patient Vincent Lambert, who suffered severe trauma to the skull in an automobile accident in 2008 that left him a quadriplegic.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has rejected a terminally ill man’s request to be killed with medical help.
The U.S. Senate is considering an amendment to a spending bill to fund the federal government that could result in thousands of wild horses on federal land being euthanized.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Belgian religious congregation is defying Pope Francis’ order to stop allowing euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals, insisting that its decision to do so is fully consistent with Catholic doctrine.
LONDON (AP) — Euthanasia has become a common way to die in the Netherlands, accounting for 4.5 percent of deaths, according to researchers who say requests are increasing from people who aren’t terminally ill.
A ruling on whether the parents of baby Charlie Gard can be taken to the United States for treatment is expected in ten days, after a newly revealed specialist from the United States has examined him.
