Leo denounced the "current trends that seek to redefine the value of human life in illness, suffering and old age," during a Mass on the Lourdes prairie before some 150,000 people, many of them in wheelchairs. "Here, no one is turned away due to their frailty," Leo said in his homily.
Leo denounced the "current trends that seek to redefine the value of human life in illness, suffering and old age," during a Mass on the Lourdes prairie before some 150,000 people, many of them in wheelchairs.
"Here, no one is turned away due to their frailty," Leo said in his homily.
Leo traveled to Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees on the second leg of his four-day visit to France, the once staunchly Catholic but officially secular country.
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Leo denounced the "current trends that seek to redefine the value of human life in illness, suffering and old age," during a Mass on the Lourdes prairie before some 150,000 people, many of them in wheelchairs. "Here, no one is turned away due to their frailty," Leo said in his homily. Leo traveled to Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees on the second leg of his four-day visit to France, the once staunchly Catholic but officially secular country.
Pope Leo XIV doubled down on his opposition to euthanasia and medically assisted dying during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures and now also a place of healing for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. The visit has been marked by huge crowds — 800,000 at Leo's Mass on Paris' iconic Place de la Concorde — and his messaging against legislation allowing assisted dying that was recently approved in France and several other countries.
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