Catholic Fire

TORONTO, May 4, 2007 ( LifeSiteNews.com) - A powerful new DVD on euthanasia and assisted suicide entitled: Turning the Tide produced by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Salt and Light television media foundation is now available. The video is of such quality and significance that it was the subject of a lengthy interview report on the Zenit Internet news service yesterday. [More] The Turning the Tide DVD package includes all the DVD, the Discussion Guide, a recording sheet and all the resources that are necessary for making a presentation on euthanasia and assisted suicide. The Turning the Tide DVD package can be ordered from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for $50.00 for 1 package, $70.00 for 2 packages, or $100.00 for 4 packages by contacting the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition at: Box 25033, London ON, N6C 6A8, email: info@epcc.ca , or calling: 1-877-439-3348. Further bulk rates exist upon request.

Diocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony is urging Catholics to fight a proposed bill that would legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill in California. Cardinal Mahony fiercely criticized the Legislature's most prominent Democrat, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez . "We should be troubled that Fabian Nunez — who has worshipped here in this cathedral, is a Catholic — somehow has not understood and grasped the culture of life but has allowed himself to get swept into this other direction, the culture of death," the cardinal said, according to an AP report. Spokesman Steve Maviglio said while Nunez respects the Cardinal's opinion "this is another issue of individual choice where the overwhelming majority of Catholics have a different perspective than the official position of the church.” An Assembly committee last week approved the bill, which would allow patients, found by two physicians to have no more than six months to live, to request a drug to end the...