CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2024 / 13:10 pm
The Pontifical Academy for Life has released a guide that it says will help the faithful in discussing the “religious and moral ethical implications” surrounding euthanasia, assisted suicide, and other controversial end-of-life topics.
The Vatican Publishing House released the brief booklet on July 2, Catholic News Service (CNS) reported this week. The pontifical academy “distributed the booklet to every bishop in Italy,” with the book as of yet available only in Italian.
The Vatican publisher on its website describes the document as a “little end-of-life lexicon,” one that offers “a series of explanatory and in-depth entries” in order to foster “a language understandable even to the uninitiated” regarding end-of-life matters.
The document is meant to “[help] those who are trying to disentangle these issues,” in part by avoiding “that component of disagreement that depends on an inaccurate use of the notions implied in the discourse.”