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Pope Francis in Lourdes: "No human law justifies euthanasia"

The Pontiff reiterates the Church's position on end-of-life and abortion: "Medicine cannot become the servant of planned death"

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During a meeting with the sick in Lourdes, Pope Francis reiterated the Church's firm rejection of euthanasia and abortion, underlining that the legality of a practice does not guarantee its morality and that human dignity is inalienable.

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The Pope addressed the issue of the end of life during a meeting with the sick in Lourdes, reiterating the Catholic doctrine on the sacredness of life.

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The Pope returns to talk about the end of life in his meeting with the sick in Lourdes. "No human law must make you lose the certainty of your dignity. On the contrary, it is precisely in the name of this inalienable dignity of the human person that the temptation to take life under the pretext of false compassion must be firmly rejected. It is impossible to consider taking life normal.

What is legal is not necessarily moral."

The Pope then forcefully reiterated the Church's position on abortion and euthanasia: "No one has the right, ever, on the basis of laboratory algorithms, to decide on the life of a specific embryo or a specific elderly person. Medicine can never be the servant of programmed death".