Tag: voluntary assisted dying

I’m recuperating from a nasty bout of covid. It had many unwelcome effects. Surprisingly, complete loss of smell has been if not the hardest, the saddest. I used to teach St Thomas Aquinas and enjoyed very much his profound reverence for our bodily lives. Reconciling this reverence with the even more ancient Christian commitment to […]

Draft law offers no strong protections against coercion and will affect the Catholic culture of care By Brigid Meney The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 will...

Attempts to limit euthanasia by legalising and then regulating it always fail This article was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 14 October...

Before you say “He would say that, he’s a bishop,” please hear me out. When it comes to calls for euthanasia, I get it,...

Arguments based on dodgy figures are dangerous Euthanasia advocate Alex Greenwich MP has been highlighting the claims of his partner organisation Dying with Dignity that...

Catholic Health Australia has stepped up its opposition to NSW’s assisted dying legislation with a campaign calling for better access to palliative care instead...

Imagine a world in which there are two classes of people. The A Class are people whose lives are sacred. Their right to life is...

The Catholic Church in Western Australia has this week entered a new world order with the enacting of the state’s 2019 Voluntary Assisted Dying...

  Here are some excerpts of the pastoral letter issued by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB on 23 June It is well known that the Catholic tradition...

There is a philosophical problem with offering death rather than our best help first We human beings have a universal norm supported by our universal...

Victoria smashed its euthanasia estimates – and won’t talk about it A total of 52 people were killed in the first six months of Victoria’s...

Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB has spoken of his parents’ decline and death from cancer and called a “callous and unworthy smear” suggestions...