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Oregon reports significant uptick in assisted suicides

March 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Oregon State Capitol in Salem. / Credit: Zack Frank/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 28, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is reporting a significant rise in assisted suicide prescriptions and deaths in the… […]

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New Jersey sheriff’s funeral Mass shows Church’s development of approach to suicide

February 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

The funeral of Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik on Jan. 31, 2024, outside the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Jai Agnish

CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The tr… […]

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Deaths by suicide reach ‘highest number ever recorded’; ideation likely higher, expert says

November 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 30, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).
Deaths by suicide grew to “the highest number ever recorded in U.S. history,” reaching nearly 50,000 in 2022, according to new data released by the CDC th… […]

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French priest accused of abusing a young girl commits suicide

July 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Benjamin Sellier. / Credit: Archdiocese of Cambrai, France

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 17, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Father Benjamin Sellier of the Archdiocese of Cambrai in France died by suicide in the early hours of July 11 after learning that… […]

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Pope Francis laments the spiritual poverty in a culture that leads to teen suicides 

June 13, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis poses for a photo with a group of young people after his general audience Aug. 17, 2022. / Pablo Esparza/CNA

Vatican City, Jun 13, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has said that the rise in teen suicides points to a deeper spiri… […]

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Archbishop Paglia’s moral and theological gymnastics

April 25, 2023 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 13

An Italian paper published what are supposed to be last week’s remarks of Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia on assisted suicide, with specific reference to the debate in Italy. Archbishop Paglia is president of the Pontifical Academy […]

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The incalculables of State-sanctioned suicide

February 16, 2023 Sarah Cain 29

In 1997, my mother took her own life, leaving her five children behind. She had her justifications, I presume, as they all do. We were poor, our family life was broken, and the area that […]

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Priest warns of dangers of social media after 12-year-old girl records her suicide

January 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

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CNA Newsroom, Jan 18, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
In the wake of the tragic death of Milagros, a 12-year-old girl who died Jan. 13 in Santa Fe province in Argentina and recorded her death on her cellphone, … […]

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Study challenges claim that legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide could ‘save lives’

February 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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Oxford, England, Feb 17, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
A new study has challenged the claim by euthanasia and assisted suicide advocates that legalizing the practices can “save lives.”The peer-reviewed article “Euthanasia… […]

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Catholic University professor’s suicide prevention treatment deemed ‘well supported’ 

May 19, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Washington D.C., May 19, 2021 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
The Catholic University of America announced this week that an intervention for suicide developed by one of its psychology professors performed well in a recent meta-anal… […]

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