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Killing the sick is "false compassion," Pope Leo XIV Says in Lourdes
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Commune in Occitania, France
Lourdes is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for its Château fort, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center.
More on Wikipedia ↗Pope Leo XIV told sick pilgrims and health care workers in Lourdes, France, on Sunday (Sept. 27) that they "must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion," Vatican News reported.
Pope Leo XIV has criticized the legalization of medically assisted death as
The pope told healthcare workers that ‘what is legal is not necessarily moral’ when it comes to causing death.