Love consists of wanting and pursuing only good for another person. Misguided compassion that leads to an early death is not authentic love.

When I was an auxiliary bishop in the Los Angeles Archdiocese some years ago, the state of California was militating in favor of physician-assisted suicide.

Speaking last week at a conference in Italy, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and grand chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, seemed to suggest that, under certain circumstances, the assisted suicide of the infirm would be morally acceptable.

'A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God,' says Benedict XVI, 'and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak.'

A government-appointed panel is reviewing the country's 17-month-old law on medically assisted death, assessing whether it should be extended to teens and the mentally ill.

My son suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in an accident at age seventeen. 

The pro-euthanasia case is compact and quick and easy to make.

The Carter decision to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia claimed that Canada could avoid abuses through careful guidelines and screening.  Experience proves otherwise.

Physicians across our country who have devoted their lives to healing patients will soon be asked to do the exact opposite.

The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons is consulting on whether patients' right of access to certain procedures, such as abortion, should trump the rights of those physicians who refuse, for reasons of conscience, to provide them.