May 15th, 2025 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
Raymond Friel, CEO of the Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), has written an open letter to Members of Parliament to urge them to vote against a Private Member’s Bill that seeks to legalise assisted suicide. His organisation’s network includes Catholic charities, care homes, hospices, and community groups that accompany people facing the end of life. […]
April 14th, 2025 | Assisted Suicide
The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) is committed to upholding the moral teachings of the Catholic Church as applied to the field of healthcare. It is therefore fundamentally opposed to the legislation proposed in MP Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill. Catholic Moral Teaching holds that it is always wrong to make a direct attack on innocent […]
April 14th, 2025 | Assisted Suicide
In this video, healthcare professionals, bioethicists, an MP, and a lawyer address the flaws and inherent dangers in Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill. It is produced by Why Not? – a project run by healthcare, ethical and legal experts that seek to address the important moral questions of our time.
April 7th, 2025 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
The Catholic Medical Association (CMA), has released its position statement on the bill passing through parliament that seeks to legalise assisted suicide. Statement The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) is committed to upholding the moral teachings of the Catholic Church as applied to the field of healthcare. It is therefore fundamentally opposed to the legislation proposed […]
January 10th, 2024 | Assisted Suicide, End of Life, Life Issues
By the Anscombe Bioethics Centre New research published in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health has found that the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) has failed to reduce the rate of ‘unassisted’ suicide in the State of Victoria. In fact, since the law came into force, suicide among older people in Victoria […]
May 22nd, 2022 | End of Life, Life Issues
Bishop Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth, has written to the clergy and parishioners of Jersey to “mobilise” and “speak out” against proposals to legalise assisted dying on the biggest of the Channel Islands. In November 2021, Jersey’s government became the first in the UK to approve the principle of legalising assisted dying. In a pastoral […]
October 23rd, 2021 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Bishops’ Conference, has thanked Catholics for writing to peers and praying that Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill might be defeated. In a brief statement issued after the Second Reading in the House of Lords on 22 October 2021, Bishop Sherrington said: “The debate about Baroness […]
October 21st, 2021 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
By Pia Matthews To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G.K. Chesterton These words from G.K. Chesterton’s A Short History of England are a salutary reminder to those who claim certain rights. And now, not for the first time, a new […]
October 19th, 2021 | Assisted Suicide
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbi warn of the risk to vulnerable people should Parliament back a new attempt to change the law on assisted suicide. In a joint letter to peers, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Archbishop Justin Welby, […]
September 8th, 2021 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has written an open letter inviting Catholics to pray for the defeat of the Assisted Dying Bill to be debated in the House of Lords in October. It encourages them to write to peers at the House of […]
September 8th, 2021 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has written an open letter inviting Catholics to pray for the defeat of the Assisted Dying Bill to be debated in the House of Lords in October. It encourages them to write to peers at the House of Lords stating […]
August 24th, 2021 | End of Life, Life Issues
The bill passed to Committee Stage but ran out of time and was unable to pass all the necessary stages before the parliamentary session ended. The bill officially fell when the new session began, marked by the Queen’s Speech in May 2022. It was almost identical in form to the ‘Marris Bill’, which was overwhelmingly […]
