Pray with Pope Francis Reflection – February 2024

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Fr. Edmund Lo, SJ

Those who are terminally ill are the ones who are the most in need. Rather than seeing them as useless and disposable parts of society, we need to regard them with respect and give them the dignity that is due.

Euthanasia is rapidly expanding: How can we respond?

Friday, January 26, 2024

Julian Paparella

Euthanasia is becoming accessible to an increasing number of Canadians. What should we know about these changes?

No to euthanasia, yes to care and redemption: Against expanding euthanasia in Canada

Monday, December 14, 2020

Julian Paparella

Canada is about to expand the criteria for euthanasia to make it more accessible. Julian Paparella tells us why, as Catholics, we should speak out.

A Catholic Response to Bill C-7

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Salt + Light Media

Watch this conversation with Bishop William McGrattan and Dr. Moira McQueen on Bill C-7 and the proposed euthanasia expansion in Canada.

Deacon-structing the Euthanasia Expansion: Bill C-7

Monday, November 16, 2020

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro explains how a proposed law - Bill C-7 - is attempting to reduce restrictions and safeguards on euthanasia in Canada.

Deacon-structing the Euthanasia Expansion

Monday, January 20, 2020

Deacon Pedro

What we need to know about the proposal to expand the criteria for euthanasia in Canada - and how to tell the government what we think.

Deacon-structing Life Support: Alfie Evans

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Deacon Pedro

By now I’m sure you’ve heard about Alfie Evans – the 23-month-old British boy who was removed from life support last week. Let me begin by saying that most of us were not in that Liverpool hospital for the year or so that Alfie was on a ventilator and receiving care. Most of us do […]

Deacon-structing: Meeting the Pope changes a Life

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Deacon Pedro

Pope Francis greets victims of violence outside the Vatican nunciature in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 8. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano) Some of the most moving encounters that the Holy Father had in Colombia went mostly under-reported. Some of these took place each evening at the Apostolic Nunciature in Bogotá, where he was staying. At the gathering with […]

Encore SLHour: End of Life Issues

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro speaking with Lisa Daniels and Dr. Robert Hauptman. This week on a special encore end-of-life edition of the SLHour we look at what it means to have medically assisted dying in Canada. We speak with Lisa Daniels who suffers from intolerable, debilitating pain and her doctor, Robert Hauptman and also with Chuck and […]

Clarifying A Good Death

Monday, January 30, 2017

Sr. Nuala Kenny

Public Dialogue and Intimate Conversations By Sr. Nuala Kenny, SC, OC, MD, FRCP “We need Christians who make God’s mercy and tenderness for every creature visible today…the crisis of modern man is profound. That is why the New Evangelization while it calls us to have the courage to swim against the tide…cannot but use a […]