WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CNS) -- New Zealand's Catholic bishops have prepared guidelines for health professionals, chaplains and priests to assist them in their pastoral work with people who decide to die under the country's End of Life Choice Act that takes effect Nov. 7.
While the church opposes the deliberate taking of human life, it cannot turn away people who choose 'assisted dying' under the new law, Bishop Stephen Lowe of Hamilton, New Zealand, vice president of the New Zealand Catholic