Cardinal Vincent Nichols has called the way in which the assisted suicide Bill is being handled by the UK government “deeply irresponsible” and a “shambles”.
In comments given during a talk to members of the Christian Fellowship group at News UK, the parent company of The Times London-based newspaper, the Archbishop of Westminster, who is also President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) and the most senior Catholic leader in Britain, expressed serious concern that MPs had only spent a few hours debating assisted suicide, especially when they spent more than a hundred times longer debating banning fox hunting in 2004.
“I believe it is deeply irresponsible of any government to allow a change of this magnitude to be carried out without due, proper, government-supported parliamentary process,” said Cardinal Nichols, reiterating a previous warning about the Bill potentially causing a seismic change – for the worse – in how British society functions.”
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