{"id":9972,"date":"2019-12-16T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2020-01-01T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T07:23:21","slug":"dutch-cardinal-priests-should-speak-clearly-on-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9972","title":{"rendered":"Dutch cardinal: Priests should &#8216;speak clearly&#8217; on assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Catholic News Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Andrea Gagliarducci<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n                    Vatican City, Dec 16, 2019 \/ 05:06 pm (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\">CNA<\/a>).- A priest must say clearly to a person opting for assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia that he is committing a grave sin, a Dutch cardinal told CNA this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                     For the same reason, a priest cannot be present when voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide is performed. This might imply that the priest has no problems with the decision or even that &#8220;these morally illicit acts are not such in some circumstances according to the teaching of the Church,&#8221; Cardinal Willelm Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht and an expert on euthanasia issues, told CNA. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/dutch-cardinal-weighs-on-how-priests-should-respond-to-assisted-suicide-39788\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic News Agency Andrea Gagliarducci Vatican City, Dec 16, 2019 \/ 05:06 pm (CNA).- A priest must say clearly to a person opting for assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia that he is committing a grave sin, a Dutch cardinal told CNA this week. For the same reason, a priest cannot be present when voluntary euthanasia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dutch cardinal: Priests should &#8216;speak clearly&#8217; on assisted suicide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,643,162,40,9],"tags":[3932],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-international","category-news","tag-willelm-eijk"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Dutch cardinal: Priests should &#039;speak clearly&#039; on assisted suicide - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9972\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dutch cardinal: Priests should &#039;speak clearly&#039; on assisted suicide - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Catholic News Agency Andrea Gagliarducci Vatican City, Dec 16, 2019 \/ 05:06 pm (CNA).- A priest must say clearly to a person opting for assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia that he is committing a grave sin, a Dutch cardinal told CNA this week. 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