The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:58:02 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Vancouver Island tops assisted suicide rate /item/28307-vancouver-island-tops-assisted-suicide-rate /item/28307-vancouver-island-tops-assisted-suicide-rate

VANCOUVER – The rate of medically-assisted deaths on Vancouver Island is about five times higher than in the rest of the country.

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A few weeks ago the Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy feature about a Vancouver Island man who had chosen to die by euthanasia. John Shields, a former priest who later married, was suffering from a rare disease that caused proteins to build up in his heart and painful nerve damage in his arms and legs, the Times story said.

]]> clewis@catholicregister.org (Charles Lewis) Charles Lewis Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:57:00 -0400 You can’t take the mission priest out of Bishop Gordon /item/18985-you-can-t-take-the-mission-priest-out-of-bishop-gordon /item/18985-you-can-t-take-the-mission-priest-out-of-bishop-gordon

New Victoria bishop encourages a stint in CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp north for priests before ministering on Vancouver Island 

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