FEAMC Presidency Statement on war in Ukrain

FEAMC

FEAMC strongly condemns Russia’s inexcusable and violent aggression against the Ukrainian people and stands by the Ukrainian Catholic doctors, their families, the Greek Catholic Church and the Roman Latin Church, and all Ukrainian citizens, believers and non-believers alike.

Old age

Pope Francis

Pope Francis starts catechesis on old age during the general audience.

Saint Joseph, patron of the good death

Pope Francis

The Church has always shown particular concern for the dying, offering them accompaniment and care, respecting the sacredness of life, even in its final stages, and rejecting the ethically unacceptable practices of euthanasia or assisted suicide.

EU Bishops reply to President Macron: “there is no recognized right to abortion in European or international law”

COMECE

In a statement released on Tuesday 8 February 2022, the Presidency of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) expresses its deep concern on President Macron’s proposal of including a supposed right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.