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How Catholic medical ethics prioritises healing

The Australian Catholic Church's most powerful figure, George Pell, is 'outspoken, controversial, reviled and loved'. We revisit this 2012 Good Weekend feature by Jane Cadzow.

SYDNEY (CNS) -- Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Catholics to write to their local state legislators because proposed euthanasia laws in New South Wales would fundamentally undermine the relationship between doctors and patients by legitimizing doctor-assisted suicide in the state.

As Australia gets its delayed vaccination rollout up to speed, other countries are moving ahead with boosters after discovering efficacy wanes over time.

Vatican City, Jan 15, 2020 / 11:52 am (CNA).- Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the relator general of the Amazon synod, sent a letter Monday to some ordinaries indicating that the apostolic exhortation on the synod should be promulgated this month or the next. “The draft is currently being reviewed and corrected and then needs to be translated. Pope Francis hopes to promulgate it by the end of this month or in early February,” Cardinal Hummes, who is also president of the Pan Amazonic Church Network, wrote in a Jan. 13 letter. Among the works of REPAM is “protection for the 137 ‘contactless t...