Vatican strips ‘Catholic’ label from Brothers of Charity Belgian hospitals for refusing to stop euthanasia
The religious order also is expected to cut ties with 12 psychiatric centers that were considered Catholic institutions.
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Articles tagged Brothers Of Charity
Catholic hospital system defies Pope, vows to continue euthanizing patients
Hospital leaders say they ‘emphatically believe’ the practice complies with Catholic teaching.
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Top European leader blasts Pope for telling Catholic hospitals not to euthanize patients
The Vatican asked the unresponsive Belgian Brothers of Charity not to allow assisted suicide at its medical facilities.
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Belgian bishops: No euthanasia in Catholic hospitals
Euthanasia 'attack[s] the very foundations of our civilization,' say the bishops.
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Vatican to investigate Belgian Catholic hospitals for deciding to euthanize sick people
The Catholic Church teaches that euthanasia, 'whatever its forms or motives, is murder.'
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Catholic order considers assisted suicide in its hospitals
The Brothers of Charity's superior is attempting to head off efforts to allow euthanasia at the order's Belgian health facilities.
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Catholic psychiatric hospitals to euthanize patients with ‘hopeless suffering’
The Belgian Brothers of Charity say they're 'on a different wavelength from Rome.'
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