{"id":88387,"date":"2026-11-13T09:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88387"},"modified":"2026-11-13T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:07:32","slug":"french-bishops-urge-catholic-hospitals-to-prepare-to-refuse-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/french-bishops-urge-catholic-hospitals-to-prepare-to-refuse-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"French Bishops Urge Catholic Hospitals To Prepare To Refuse Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The bishops of France told Catholic healthcare institutions to act now so they can refuse to carry out euthanasia and assisted suicide, as a new law is expected to permit from January 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">In a <a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/eglise.catholique.fr\/conference-des-eveques-de-france\/cef\/assemblees-plenieres\/assemblee-eveques-france-novembre-2026\/574360-nous-voulons-vous-soutenir-et-vous-encourager-lettre-des-eveques-de-france-aux-responsables-des-etablissements-de-sante-dinspiration-catholique-et-a-leurs-equipes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> issued Nov. 8 at the close of their autumn plenary assembly in Lourdes, the bishops explained it was \u201curgent\u201d for the institutions to update their charters, statutes, and internal rules.The National Assembly passed the law on July 15. On Aug. 14 the Constitutional Council upheld it with three interpretive reservations, one allowing health institutions not to provide \u201caid in dying\u201d when it is contrary to their statutes or mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: The bishops of France told Catholic healthcare institutions to act now so they can refuse to carry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88388,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88387\/revisions\/88388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}