“The answer to suffering is not death,” Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said this week.
Italy’s bishops’ conference president delivered a sharp critique of a proposed euthanasia bill after it cleared a Senate committee. The bill, urged by the constitutional court in 2019, is backed by the ruling conservative coalition but opposed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

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Cardinal Matteo Zuppi warned Italy’s Parliament against legalizing assisted suicide, saying it endangers the vulnerable and weakens social solidarity. He argued that suffering should be addressed through palliative care and support, not death, and emphasized that human life has value regardless of illness or fragility.