People who are dying must be given love and professional care, but there is no requirement that every means available must be used to prolong their lives, according to Pope Francis. “Even if we know that we cannot always guarantee healing or a cure, we can and must always care for the living, without ourselves shortening their life, but also without futilely resisting their death,” the Holy Father said. By Cindy Wooden.
“The family born of marriage generates fruitful bonds, which prove to be the most effective antidote to the current rampant individualism,” Pope Francis has said. In a video message to participants in the Third International Symposium on Amoris Laetitia, the Holy Father said that on the path of conjugal love and family life, there are situations that require difficult decisions to be made with rectitude. By Catholic News Service