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California’s governor has rolled back several safeguards surrounding assisted suicide. State law requires patients to make two separate requests for assisted suicide medication. There was previously a required 15 day waiting period, between requests. That waiting period is now 48 hours. The new law also no longer requires patients seeking assisted suicide to make a final attestation for their cause.
The Vatican has indicated that Pope Francis will not attend the United Nations climate summit next month in Scotland. The pope expressed his wish to attend the conference, during a radio interview in September. The Vatican delegation will instead be led by the Vatican’s Secretary of State.
A Catholic archbishop entrusted Poland to Saint Joseph yesterday, in honor of the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Poland was also consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in June. About 92% of Poland’s population are baptized Catholics.
U-S bishops will elect five new committee chair positions, at their general assembly next month in Baltimore. The meeting is the first in-person meeting of the conference in two years. Committees open for elections include the migration committee, the committee on divine worship, and the committee on laity, marriage and family life.
Today, the Church remembers Saint Thais. Little is known about her life, but it is believed Thais was a sinful woman converted by a monk. She then lived a life of penitence for three years, in a narrow cell.