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null / Credit: sfam_photo/ShutterstockToronto, Canada, Feb 9, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).Health and mental health ministers in three Canadian territories and five provinces were successful in getting Canada's government to indefinitely pause implementing medical assistance in dying (MAID). But the pause does not mean a permanent halt to the plan.  Implementing the expansion of euthanasia for the mentally ill had been scheduled for March 17. However, Canada's health minister, Mark Holland, stated that there are not enough psychiatrists willing to sign off on requests by mentally ill people who seek MAID. He acknowledged that health professionals need more training and said provincial and territorial governments "need more time." This does not mean the expansion of MAID is likely to end here, however. Dr. Moira McQueen, executive director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute (CCBI), shared with CNA that abolition of the euthanasia law is unlikely, and the Libera...
null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA).Advocates of assisted suicide in Canada are preparing to sue a Catholic hospital over its refusal to take part in the deliberate ending of patients' lives. Activists with Dying with Dignity Canada are helping mount a lawsuit against St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver due to the hospital's not allowing suicide to take place in its facility. Doctor-facilitated suicide is legal in Canada under the country's medical assistance in dying (MAID) law. The pending lawsuit was reported on this month by Thomas McKenna at National Review. Dying with Dignity Canada confirmed to CNA this week that the legal complaint had not yet been lodged but would be at some point."The lawsuit has not yet been filed," group spokeswoman Sarah Dobec told CNA. "We'll have more to say when it has."Shaf Hussain, a spokesman for Providence Health Care, which owns St. Paul's Hospital, declined to speak on the pending litigation. "Providence ...
A still from Hallow's Super Bowl commercial airing Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: HallowCNA Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).The Catholic prayer app Hallow announced that its first-ever Super Bowl commercial will air during the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 11. "Our goal at Hallow is to try to help as many people as possible, especially those who have most fallen away, to pray and build a real relationship with God," Alex Jones, co-founder and CEO of Hallow, told CNA in an interview.He shared that the 30-second commercial is "just a simple invitation to pray together." "Let's all just take 30 seconds during the Super Bowl, during the Lord's day, to give thanks to God together. That's really all Hallow is about, just spending time with God, just letting Christ into our hearts. It's an honor to be able to use the Super Bowl, for the first time ever, as an opportunity for us all to pray."The ad will feature Catholic actors M...
Pope Francis addressed members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on Thursday morning, Feb. 8, 2024, to discuss the importance of liturgical reform as a core feature of the broader "renewal of the Church." / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 8, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis met with members of the Vatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on Thursday morning to discuss the importance of liturgical reform as a core feature of the broader "renewal of the Church." The address comes as the dicastery is meeting for its annual plenary assembly, which is addressing the "liturgical formation from Sacrosanctum Concilium to Desiderio Desideravi" for ordained ministers as well as "liturgical training courses for the people of God."The meeting will also seek to "provide bishops with practical suggestions for developing pastoral projects in their dioceses with the aim of putting into practice the reflect...
Talitha Kum members hold a sculpture of St. Josephine Bakhita in St. Peter's Square on Feb. 6, 2022. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 8, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA).On the 10th International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking, Pope Francis urged people to take concrete actions to "combat this global scourge.""Let us help one another to be more responsive, to open our lives and hearts to our sisters and brothers who even now are being bought and sold as slaves. It is never too late to take action," Pope Francis said in a message published Feb. 8."Let us pray fervently and work proactively for this cause, the defense of human dignity, whether by prayer and action as individuals and families, or as parish and religious communities, as ecclesial associations and movements, and also in the various spheres of social and political life."The pope's comments came as Catholics from more than 50 countries across the world rallied together virtually as part of an...
Florida Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie speaks to "EWTN News Nightly" host Tracy Sabol on Florida's proposed abortion amendment Feb. 6, 2024. / Credit: "EWTN News Nightly"CNA Staff, Feb 8, 2024 / 13:15 pm (CNA).A proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution at dispute before the state Supreme Court would give "unscrupulous" abortion providers free rein over vulnerable women in the state, a Florida doctor told EWTN this week. The pro-abortion group Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) filed a proposed constitutional amendment with the Florida secretary of state in May that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. If approved by the court, the measure would appear on the November ballot.The proposed amendment would prohibit the state from passing any laws to "prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability."The Florida attorney general last year asked the state Supreme Court to block the effort, claiming in part that it did not meet the ...
Thousands of Christians peacefully and prayerfully march to a rally in front of the Nigerian Plateau state governor's office building in protest of the 2023 Christmas massacre that left over 200 Christian Nigerians dead, Jan. 8, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Rev. Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam, photo by Plateau State Government Media TeamWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 7, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The House Foreign Affairs Committee has advanced a resolution to increase sanctions and pressure on the Nigerian government over the rampant persecution of Christians and other minorities in the country.Sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, the resolution would call on the Biden administration to designate Nigeria a "country of particular concern" (CPC), a designation that comes with additional sanctions.The resolution would also urge the administration to appoint a special U.S. envoy to Nigeria to monitor and report on incidents of persecution.Smith and other proponents of the bil...
The Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ / Credit: Facebook Fraternidade O CaminhoACI Prensa Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina has reported that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua is now using a home where nuns expelled from the country used to live as an office of the Directorate of Migration and Immigration, which is part of the Ministry of the Interior.The former house of the Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ is in the city of León in Nicaragua's northwest. The walls are still the same color and inside the nuns' same furniture still remains. The logo of the Ministry of the Interior is now on the façade."Sandinista dictatorship confiscates property of the Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ who in July 2023 were expelled by the Sandinista dictatorship. Police remained inside but now they have turned it into a state institution," Molina said Feb. 5 on X. "They didn't even change ...
null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 18:40 pm (CNA).Based on a review of more than 60 studies related to the mental health of adolescents, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) has concluded that social transition, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones "have no demonstrable, long-term benefit on psychosocial well-being of adolescents with gender dysphoria."ACPeds President Dr. Michael Artigues said the organization's review of the referenced research points to "what many who practice medicine intuitively understand, that young patients experiencing gender dysphoria deserve help in accepting and loving themselves as they are, not interventions that destroy their healthy bodies and put them on track of medicalization for life." The principal authors of the research review, led by ACPeds Vice President Jane Anderson, expressed their grave concern "that parents, along with health care and educational professionals who support the transgender 'transition' of ...
null / ivanko80/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA).A major medical publisher has retracted several studies that demonstrated the risks associated with using abortion pills, a move the authors are calling "baseless" and politically motivated.Sage Journals this week posted a notice on its website that it had retracted three articles from 2019, 2021, and 2022, all of them originally published in the journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology.Those articles identified what the authors asserted were risks associated with the usage of the abortion pill, including the finding that "ER visits are at greater risk to occur following a chemical rather than a surgical abortion." James Studnicki, the vice president and director of data analytics at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, and Tessa Longbons, a senior research associate there, said in a joint statement to CNA on Wednesday that the retractions were "a baseless attack on our scientific ...
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