A hospital bed is seen May 31, 2024, at the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France. The Scottish Catholic bishops welcomed Parliament's decision March 17, 2026, to reject a bill that would have allowed eligible adults "to lawfully request, and be provided with, assistance by health professionals to end their own life." (OSV News photo/Manon Cruz, Reuters) A federal judge on September 11 temporarily blocked Illinois from enforcing the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide, against Catholic entities that challenged it in court. The judge granted a temporary restraining order to Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns,…
