Tag: Euthanasia
Parish priest and youth go on the front foot with euthanasia...
On Thursday 13 May, popular Catholic Weekly columnist Monica Doumit will look at the political and legal aspects of dying with dignity
Monica Doumit: Stand firm against euthanasia
Another dodgy anti-life campaign is underway
Happy New Year!
While most of us took a break at the end of last year, to spend time with...
Euthanasia focus would be ‘tone deaf’
Proposed timing of a NSW euthanasia push is described as so inappropriate as to be “laughable”.
Catholic hospitals face a battle in Tasmania
Experts reject an attempt to force hospitals and aged care facilities to offer assisted suicide.
Innovative ‘cuddle beds’ for humane palliative care
Cuddle beds are an important initiative
Warning after NZ assisted suicide green light
Communities of care will be essential under new regime
Legal experts and pro-life advocates warn that vulnerable sick, elderly and people with disabilities will be...
Dutch cardinal denounces euthanasia for children
Cardinal Eijk, a former doctor, warns that the practice will continue widening in the Netherlands.
Q&A with Fr John Flader: The campaign for death
I come from Africa, where the health system is nowhere near as good as it is here, so that consequently more people die in...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Defending the right to live
I work as a nurse in a palliative care ward and sometimes have to defend the Church’s teaching on euthanasia before other nurses, who...
Vatican clear on end-of-life care
Accompany yes, but no sacraments for those requesting euthanasia says the Holy See.
Peak health group rejects dying bill
Catholic providers in Tasmania will resist proposed law
Catholic Health Australia has strongly rejected Tasmania's proposed euthanasia legislation and says its members in the state...
Calls grow for death law inquiry
Medical, political and faith leaders demand scrutiny of Tasmania's draft assisted suicide legislation
Demand for an inquiry into Tasmania’s proposed assisted suicide law is growing as...