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Belgium and the Netherlands see rapid rise in euthanasia and assisted suicide cases

February 16, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

CNA Staff, Feb 16, 2021 / 08:00 am (CNA).- Euthanasia and assisted suicide cases have risen rapidly in Belgium and the Netherlands since the practices were legalized in 2002, according to a bioethics institute.

The Vienna-based Institute for Medical A… […]

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Febronianism revisited: A brief and cautionary history

February 1, 2021 Tracey Rowland 11

In a recent interview posted by CWR, Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked: Since the eighteenth century, along with absolutism, we have even in Catholic France, Austria and Bavaria the unholy tradition of the official state church […]

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Jews, Muslims decry court decision backing Belgian ban on kosher, halal slaughter

December 18, 2020 CNA Daily News 1

CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2020 / 01:01 pm (CNA).- Despite concern that a Belgian law bans Jewish and Muslim religious slaughter practices, a European Union court has said the law is justified by the need to promote animal welfare even if it does not accommoda… […]

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Belgium allows 15 people at Mass in ‘slight easing’ of public worship ban

December 11, 2020 CNA Daily News 3

Rome Newsroom, Dec 11, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- The government of Belgium has agreed to ease restrictions on Mass celebrated with the public beginning Dec. 13, permitting a maximum of 15 people to participate in the liturgy.

The bishops’ conferen… […]

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Belgian Catholics organize legal challenge to public Mass ban

December 7, 2020 CNA Daily News 2

Rome Newsroom, Dec 7, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Catholics in Belgium are seeking to take legal action against the government after it decreed that public Masses will remain suspended in the country through Jan. 15, 2021.

Following a ministerial decree N… […]

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No public Masses until January for Belgian Catholics

December 1, 2020 CNA Daily News 4

CNA Staff, Dec 1, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Belgium’s Catholic bishops called Tuesday for dialogue with the government after it decreed that public Masses would remain suspended until Jan. 15, 2021. 

Following a ministerial decree Nov. 29, th… […]

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Reason, the Catholic University, and the Morality of Abortion

April 19, 2017 Eduardo Echeverria 1

Stéphane Mercier, a lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (UCL) in Belgium initially was suspended from teaching, pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings, because there was opposition in a class from a feminist group to his […]

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