Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, has instructed every pastor in Toronto to read in the parish a letter on the crime of euthanasia in Canada.
http://www.catholicregister.org/item/21864-cardinal-steps-up-opposition-to-assisted-dying
http://www.catholicregister.org/item/21864-cardinal-steps-up-opposition-to-assisted-dying
Cardinal Thomas Collins issued a statement to be read at Masses throughout the Toronto archdiocese March 5-6 condemning recommendations for wide-open access to assisted suicide.Photo by Michael Swan.
Cardinal steps up opposition to assisted dying
BY JIM O'LEARY, THE CATHOLIC REGISTERTORONTO - A statement from Cardinal Thomas Collins to be read in the Archdiocese of Toronto’s 225 parishes urges Catholics to oppose a “chilling” parliamentary committee report on assisted suicide that Collins said “should shock us to the core.”
In an interview, the cardinal said he hopes parishioners will write to their Members of Parliament and “even the Prime Minister if they wish” to express “deep concern” about a report that recommends assisted killing be integrated into health care and become available to terminal and nonterminal patients. The report also said doctors who oppose killing patients should be forced to refer those patients to other doctors and that hospitals that receive public funding, including Catholic institutions, should be compelled by law to provide assisted suicide and euthanasia.