In view of the discussion scheduled for today, Wednesday 8 June 2022, in the European Parliament under the title “Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court”, the Secretary General of COMECE, Fr Manuel Barrios Prieto, has made a declaration.
Pope Francis repeats his view on healthcare: proximity, wholeness and common good.
Pope Francis tells catholic pharmacists that they can play an important social role.
Cardinal Eijk opposes the idea that assisted suicide is morally different from euthanasia.
Pope Francis invites everyone to make next 2 March, Ash Wednesday, a Day of Fasting for Peace.
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.
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.
Pope Francis stresses that It is important to continue the effort to immunize the general population against SARS-CoV-2 as much as possible. This calls for a manifold commitment on the personal, political and international levels.
Urging responsibility and care amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and encouraging vaccination together with necessary sanitary measures, COMECE ande CECE have issued the following joint appeal.