WelCom December 2019
Several hundred protesters against the End of Life Choice Bill gathered outside Parliament on the day of the third and final reading of the bill, 13 November 2019.
The member’s bill, in the name of ACT leader David Seymour, that would allow terminally ill adults, to request a medically-assisted death, cleared its third reading 69 votes to 51.
It will take a majority referendum result at next year’s general election before the legislation can be enacted.
Just days before the End of Life Choice Bill was read a third time in Parliament, Dr Sinead Donnelly told TVNZ 1’s Breakfast there is no place for euthanasia in New Zealand.
Dr Donnelly is one of more than 1500 doctors who signed an open letter to Parliament, which opposes the End of Life Choice Bill.
‘In my view and in our view of the 1500 doctors there is no place for a doctor intentionally ending the life of another person. Our duty is to care, to serve and to advocate for people,’ Dr Donnelly said.
She said the view is not just isolated to New Zealand. ‘We stand with the World Medical Association that actually represents 114 countries and nine million physicians who say it’s not the role of a doctor to end someone’s life.’
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Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 8 December
‘As has been the custom for many years an archdiocesan Mass will be celebrated on our diocesan feast day, 7pm, Thursday 8 December, at St Teresa’s Pro-Cathedral, Karori. The archdiocese will again be entrusted to the care of Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception at this Mass. Parishes are asked to renew that Consecration on the following Sunday, 11 December, at All parish Masses.’ – Cardinal John Dew
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Pope Francis registers for the next World Youth Day in Lisbon
At the conclusion of the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis registered for the next World Youth Day to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2023. Assisted and accompanied by Portuguese university students studying in Rome, the Pope tapped his way to becoming the first officially registered pilgrim for World Youth Day.