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Pope Leo XIV in France condemns medically assisted dying — Global News Canada
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Over the weekend, Pope Leo XIV condemned medically assisted suicide becoming legal in France.
Pope Leo XIV criticizes medically assisted death as 'false compassion' during a visit to Lourdes, France, while also meeting with clerical abuse survivors.
LOURDES, France (AP) — Pope Leo XIV blasted the legalization of medically assisted death as immoral “false compassion,” as he doubled down on Catholic teaching about life during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures of the sick. On his third day in France, Leo again…