What to know

• "No human law should ever make you lose the certainty of your dignity," says Pope Leo XIVS1
• Pope Leo XIV doubled down on Catholic teaching about life during a visit on Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures of the sick. Speaking to a crowd of 150,000, he emphasized all human life should be protected.S2
• Pope Leo XIV has described assisted dying as not ‘normal’, criticising France’s new law during a visit to the pilgrimage site of Lourdes. : https://punchng.com/assisted-dying-not-normal-pope/S3
• The issue roiled French politics for years before resulting recently in legislation allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication.S4
• Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the once staunchly Catholic and officially secular France has been marked by huge crowdsS5
• Pope Leo XIV on Sunday blasted the legalization of medically assisted death as immoral "false compassion," as he doubled down on Catholic teaching about life during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures of the s...S6