Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Pope Leo XIV Rejects Euthanasia as False Compassion

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | October 5, 2026 |

“It is impossible to regard causing death as something normal. What is legal is not necessarily moral.” ― Pope Leo XIV, Meeting with the Staff and Sick Community of Accueil Notre Dame On Sunday afternoon, September 27, Pope Leo XIV visited the Accueil Notre-Dame, the hospital inside the shrine at Lourdes where sick pilgrims are…

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Brigitte Stegemann and the Dark Reality of MAiD in Canada

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | September 28, 2026 |

“The Church is convinced of the necessity to reaffirm as definitive teaching that euthanasia is a crime against human life because, in this act, one chooses directly to cause the death of another innocent human being.” ― Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Samaritanus Bonus, 2020 Brigitte Stegemann was an 83-year-old mother of two,…

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