201802.27
0

February 26, 2018 – Vancouver archbishop critiques euthanasia provision in hospice care

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vancouver-archbishop-critiques-euthanasia-provision-in-hospice-care-53732 “The government needs to immediately halt any efforts to force access to assisted suicide in facilities where caregivers – whether family, friends, or health-care workers or volunteers – selflessly attend to the sick and suffering,” said Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver in a Feb. 22 statement. “As a community, we must also ask…

201802.23
0

February 23, 2018 – Giving a Voice to Persecuted and Forgotten Christians

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/klemond/giving-a-voice-to-persecuted-and-forgotten-christians If we forget the persecuted Christians and don’t support them, something isn’t right in our own lives of faith and communion Susan Klemond Middle Eastern Christians are even less in the news following last year’s partial defeat of ISIS, but they continue to face persecution from smaller jihadi groups who share the goal of…

201802.22
0

February 22, 2018 – Message of the Holy Father Francis for the 33rd World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, 25 March 2018), 22.02.2018

https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/02/22/180222a.html The following is the text of the Message the Holy Father Francis has sent to young people of the world on the occasion of the 33rd World Youth Day, to be celebrated at diocesan level on 25 March 2018, Palm Sunday, on the theme, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour…