Pope blasts assisted suicide as ‘false compassion’ at French shrine known for miraculous cures

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 sick.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”