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November 6, 2017

Palliative care offers a final healing

Pope Francis blesses a sick child in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 15, 2016, during a meeting with patients and workers of Rome's Bambino Gesu children's hospital.
Since my return to parish ministry after some years as a hospital priest, I have continued to minister to patients receiving palliative care in hospitals, long-term care facilities and in their own homes.
Published in Estate Planning
February 20, 2016

Assisted suicide and salvation

Bishop Douglas Crosby, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, believes that priests are caught between the poles of mercy and Church teaching on suicide in dealing with those who have chosen assisted suicide.

With doctor-assisted suicide now legal in Quebec and available across Canada to anyone granted permission from a Superior Court judge, bishops and pastors will face new pastoral dilemmas.

Published in Canada