Euthanasia, Religious Freedom Taken Up at Red Masses [2011-02-01]
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Australian Prelates Note Nation's Moral Battles - Bishop Fisher spoke to the more than 1,000 judges, barristers, solicitors, professors and lecturers in law as well as many law students in attendance about the bills to legalize euthanasia in Australian parliaments.
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Catholic Deacon Confesses to Euthanizing 50 People at Catholic Hospital
I reported yesterday on the breaking news that 57 year old Deacon, Wevelgemse Ivo Poppe had been arrested and charged with 10 counts of illegal euthanasia; the deaths occurring before the Belgian law on euthanasia was introduced in 2002. Ref. Source 3
I think Catholics believe you go to limbo or hell if you kill yourself. Catholics have a history of torture and painful punishment so it doesn't surprise me that they would want someone to suffer til the very death.
Vatican Official Denounces Brittany Maynards Death
A Vatican bioethics official says Brittany Maynard's death by assisted suicide was an undignified "absurdity."
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Brittany Maynard's Mother Calls Vatican Assisted Suicide Opposition "A Slap in the Face"
Shortly after Brittany Maynard took her own life, a leading Catholic Church official said assisted suicide was "reprehensible" because it violated the dignity of human life. Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said "dignity is something other than putting an end to one's own life." Ref. Source 1