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Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition speaks with listeners at a March 2023 presentation at St. Nicholas Church in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. "Most people ask for euthanasia because they are going through a difficult time of life," Schadenberg said. / Credit: Nicholas ElbersVancouver, Canada, Apr 3, 2023 / 07:47 am (CNA).Caring and compassion are the most effective solutions we have to combat the growing requests for Medical Assistance in Dying, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Executive Director Alex Schadenberg recently told a large gathering at St. Nicholas Church in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.The presentation, titled "How do we talk to our loved ones about euthanasia?", unpacked the cultural shift in Canadian culture toward widespread acceptance of assisted suicide while offering ways to help protect the most vulnerable from euthanasia.Despite media narratives suggesting that euthanasia is offered to relieve physical suffering, Sc
LyLena Estabine, a junior at Harvard University, is in the OCIA program at St. Paul s Catholic Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and plans to join the Church at the Easter Vigil on April 8, 2023. / Credit: LyLena EstabineBoston, Mass., Apr 2, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).The Church s teaching on Mary and the Eucharist were the two biggest hurdles for 21-year-old LyLena Estabine, a former Protestant, in accepting the Catholic faith.Ahead of Holy Week and her full entrance into the Catholic Church, Estabine, who is also consecrated to Mary, said she expects to shed tears when receiving holy Communion for the first time."Finally being able to take part at the eucharistic feast, it will be very good," Estabine, a junior sociology major at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a March 28 interview with CNA.A native of Olathe, Kansas, Estabine is one of 32 candidates and catechumens in the OCIA (formerly RCIA) program at St. Paul s Catholic Church in Cambridge, home to
Pope Francis presided over Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square on April 2, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Apr 2, 2023 / 04:25 am (CNA).Pope Francis presided over Mass for Palm Sunday 2023 in St. Peter s Square on April 2. Below is the full text of his homily:"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mt 27:46). This is the cry that today s liturgy has us repeat in the responsorial psalm (cf. Ps 22:2), the only cry that Jesus makes from the cross in the Gospel we have heard. Those words bring us to the very heart of Christ s passion, the culmination of the sufferings he endured for our salvation. "Why have you forsaken me?"The sufferings of Jesus were so man, and whenever we listen to the account of the Passion, they pierce our hearts. There were sufferings of the body: we think of the slaps and beatings, flogging and the crowning with thorns, and in the end, the cruelty of the crucifixion. There were also sufferings of the soul: the betrayal of Jud
null / Credit: St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center Facebook pageDenver, Colo., Apr 1, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).After interviewing three priests in January who were students at CU Boulder, Denver Catholic spoke to the men and women behind the ministry to figure out their "secret sauce." What is the St. Thomas Aquinas Center doing to turn out great apostles?"It s Boulder," said Father Peter Mussett, pastor at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Boulder. "The secret sauce that we have is that we get to do ministry in Boulder, which is on one hand, two steps ahead of the culture in its progressivism and on another hand, it actually facilitates this strange openness of exploration.""There s oddly an openness to Boulder, too; there s a curiosity," said Megan Dillon, director of advancement for St. Thomas Aquinas. "It s a tough environment but also there s a genuine curiosity." The St. Thomas Aquinas Center (St. Tom s), serves the University of