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Catholic Church's Position on Medical Use of End of Life Remedies


PATHWAYS - Center for Practical Bioethics

diverging and converging views of Catholics about advance care planning, palliative care, and health care decisions within the Catholic Church and in the ...

Church Teaching - End of Life Issues - Catholic Bishops' Conference

The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with ...

The Magisterium of the Church on euthanasia - Vatican News

The Church, in its 2000-year history, has always defended human life from conception to natural death, with particular attention to the more fragile stages of ...

Library : Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life | Catholic Culture

The Church has also recognized that artificial nutrition and hydration should not be pursued when it is not able, in the language of John Paul II's allocution, ...

Catholicism, Death and Modern Medicine | America Magazine

According to the Vatican's Declaration on Euthanasia (1980), Life is a gift of God, and on the other hand, death is unavoidable. Thus we should ...

Catholic Teaching on Euthanasia and Care of the Dying

The Gospel of Life defines euthanasia as any action or omission which of itself and by intention causes death with the purpose of eliminating ...

Toolkit: Health Care Decision Making - Maryland Catholic Conference

While many of us avoid thinking about illness and death, they are a reality. We encourage you to take time now, before a crisis, to prayerfully consider your ...

A Catholic Guide to EndaofaLife Decisions for Individuals and Families

Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2278. Page 7. 7. Weighing the burdens and benefits of particular medical treatments for each individual requires us to ...

Advance Directive Options & Catholic Living Wills | HLI

Catholics who use living wills and durable POAs should write these documents and instruct their surrogates that all medical treatment and ...

Catholics and Hospice Choice - Herald Scholarly Open Access

For end of life issues, Catholics tend to favor expending all medical remedies to prolong life. Protestants tend to believe in “natural death,” one unencumbered ...

What Does The Catholic Church Teach About End Of Life Care?

Whether a particular treatment is excessively burdensome to an individual patient is a moral question that often requires the advice of a priest ...

Catholic Terminal Sedation-A New Framework for Providing ...

73 Many argue that palliative sedation is only palliative sedation when the amount of medication and the levels of sedation provided are aligned ...

Assisted Suicide - New Jersey Catholic Conference - Trenton, NJ

Euthanasia is an action or omission that of itself or by intention causes death in order to alleviate suffering. Catholic health care institutions may never ...

POLST and Religion

POLST is upheld by many religious organizations, including the Catholic Health Association. Pope Francis also made a statement emphasizing the importance of ...

Catholic Teaching on Euthanasia - Family Life International NZ

The Catholic Church has always held inviolable the dignity and right to life of every human person from the moment of conception (fertilisation) through to ...

End-of-Life Care, Hospice and Medical Ethics Consultation

Talk to an experienced physician or hospice nurse to help arrange for ethical and compassionate care consistent with Catholic teaching.

A Question about End of Life Treatment - National Catholic Register

In such situations, when death is clearly imminent and inevitable, one can in conscience “refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a ...

A Catholic Perspective on Euthanasia, Compassion in Dying v. State ...

The. Church's view does not interpret the sanctity of life as demanding a ... refusing medical treatment and taking active measures to terminate life. The ...

Now and at the Hour of Our Death - Wisconsin Catholic Conference

Crucial to understanding the Church's teaching on the use of medical therapy in sustaining human life is the distinction between euthanasia and the decision ...

Horizons of Hope: A Toolkit for Catholic Parishes on Palliative Care

For whom is the program designed? · Those seeking to learn more about palliative care and Catholic Church teaching on end-of-life; · Caregivers; · Persons who have ...