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Australia’s Catholic bishops have released a new document to guide priests, chaplains and pastoral workers who are asked to provide pastoral support to Catholics who are considering accessing the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) scheme....
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The recent passage of legislation in NSW legalising voluntary assisted dying (VAD), or euthanasia, should be a wake-up call for all Catholics and people of faith to guard against what Pope Francis sees as the gradual erosion of human dignity in our modern world....
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Australia NSW: Catholics urged to sign anti-euthanasia petition...
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By Most Rev Dr Peter A Comensoli The internationally renowned psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl experienced first hand the utter depravity of Auschwitz and Dachau. He knew the immense physical torment, psychological torture and spiritual desolation of those most inhuman of places. They were not called death camps...
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By Julie Morgan The doctors have told me that I have a few months to live; the cancer that began in my breast four years ago has now spread to my spine, ribs, hips and, more significantly, to my lungs. The surgeries, extensive chemotherapy, and radiation that I went...
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By Debra Vermeer The practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide overseas has been a disaster, with so-called safeguards failing and doctor-assisted killing on the rise, and not just for the terminally ill, says world-renowned ethicist Professor Margaret Somerville. “It’s a mess, and a growing mess,” she says. Professor Somerville,...
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Euthanasia and Palliative Care will headline a discussion at the upcoming QndA forum at St Benedict’s Hall at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus on Wednesday 7 December 2016. QndA draws pollies, priests and professors – of different faiths and traditions – to UNDA to thrash out...
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Trip to Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, Sutton Forest You are invited to join the Sacred Heart Parish community for a day trip on Tuesday 6 December that includes coach travel, morning tea, self-guided tour of the grounds and shrines. BYO picnic lunch. Departs 9.30am from Sacred Heart...
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Trip to Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, Sutton Forest You are invited to join the Sacred Heart Parish community for a day trip on Tuesday 6 December that includes coach travel, morning tea, self-guided tour of the grounds and shrines. BYO picnic lunch. Departs 9.30am from Sacred Heart...
Australia’s Catholic bishops have released a new document to guide priests, chaplains and pastoral workers who are asked to provide pastoral support to Catholics who are considering accessing the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) scheme....
The recent passage of legislation in NSW legalising voluntary assisted dying (VAD), or euthanasia, should be a wake-up call for all Catholics and people of faith to guard against what Pope Francis sees as the gradual erosion of human dignity in our modern world....
By Most Rev Dr Peter A Comensoli The internationally renowned psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl experienced first hand the utter depravity of Auschwitz and Dachau. He knew the immense physical torment, psychological torture and spiritual desolation of those most inhuman of places. They were not called death camps...
By Julie Morgan The doctors have told me that I have a few months to live; the cancer that began in my breast four years ago has now spread to my spine, ribs, hips and, more significantly, to my lungs. The surgeries, extensive chemotherapy, and radiation that I went...
Euthanasia and Palliative Care will headline a discussion at the upcoming QndA forum at St Benedict’s Hall at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus on Wednesday 7 December 2016. QndA draws pollies, priests and professors – of different faiths and traditions – to UNDA to thrash out...
Trip to Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, Sutton Forest You are invited to join the Sacred Heart Parish community for a day trip on Tuesday 6 December that includes coach travel, morning tea, self-guided tour of the grounds and shrines. BYO picnic lunch. Departs 9.30am from Sacred Heart...