Roman Catholics must stop laws allowing physician assisted suicide. Spread the message about hospice care to prevent assisted deaths.
Archbishop of New York Ronald Hicks joined a lawsuit against the state of New York over its new law on legalizing assisted suicide. The loving care of Catholic ✝️ religious sisters has surrounded dying New Yorkers for decades, but now, plaintiffs say a new law would force healthcare workers to take an active part in promoting assisted suicide. Aleteia previously reported that Bishop John O. Barres of the Diocese of Rockville Centre sued the state with Catholic Health of Long Island and four religious communities: the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, the Missionary Sisters of St. Benedict, and the Little Sisters of the Poor. These sisters provide skilled nursing, dementia and palliative care, daily prayer, and loving presence so that no patient dies alone. New York legalized assisted suicide on February 6, 2026, when Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law; it took effect August 5, 2026. The plaintiffs say it thr...