X - CLOSE

Make your gift today!

Help keep Catholics around the world educated and informed.

$1000
$500
$100
$50
$25
$
$5 USD is the minimum online donation. All donations are tax deductible in the US.
One Time
Monthly

Already donated? Log in to stop seeing these donation pop-ups.

Catholic World News

Korean bishops decry acceptance of euthanasia

July 10, 2009

The Catholic bishops of Korea have warned that the people of their country are being encouraged to "unconsciously accept euthanasia" under the guise of "death with dignity." Bishop Gabriel Chang Bong-hun of Cheongju, who chairs the Korean bishops' committee on bioethics, made his statement in reaction to two recent cases in which courts have approved the removal of feeding tubes from patients.

 

For all current news, visit our News home page.

 
Further information:
Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in.

All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. If you are a current donor, log in to see the comment form; otherwise please support our work, and Sound Off!

There are no comments yet for this item.

Tue9 June
Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor

Image for Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor

The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the…

Learn more about this day.

June Calendar ›