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A Carmelite Sister comforts a resident Aug. 21, 2026, at St. Patrick\u2019s Residence in Naperville, Ill. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Chicago Province of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. (OSV News photo\/courtesy Becket)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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A federal judge on Sept. 11 temporarily blocked Illinois from enforcing the state\u2019s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide, against Catholic entities that challenged it in court.<\/p>\n

The judge granted a temporary restraining order to Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic women religious, and an Illinois pharmacist in response to their lawsuit, Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm v. Prince, filed earlier in September.<\/a> The Catholic entities have argued the law, which took effect Sept. 12, would require them to facilitate such deaths for their patients in violation of their faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome this decision of the court that stays the enforcement of the provisions of the Illinois End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA) that require healthcare providers, against their conscience, to participate in assisted suicide by compelling them to inform patients of the \u2018benefits\u2019 of suicide and their \u2018right\u2019 to kill themselves, and also help them qualify for lethal drugs, or pass them along to someone willing to help them obtain those drugs,\u201d Cardinal Cupich said in a statement. \u201cThese obligations violate core constitutional protections of freedom of speech and religion. The law with these provisions must be struck down permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo be clear, the Church\u2019s objection to this statute is not an attempt to impose Catholic teaching on non-Catholics; it is an effort to stop the State from compelling Catholic health care providers to violate their conscience,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Supporters of legalizing physician-assisted suicide argue the practice offers autonomy to suffering or terminally ill individuals in their final days, but opponents argue such laws disregard the dignity of human life and leave those who are ill or dying vulnerable to coercion, among other concerns.<\/p>\n

The Catechism of the Catholic Church specifically condemns the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide<\/a> as \u201cmorally unacceptable\u201d and a violation of the Fifth Commandment, \u201cYou shall not kill.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement issued Dec. 12 when he signed the law, Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., argued the practice offers \u201cfreedom and choice at the end of life in the midst of personal heartbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Sept. 11 statement, Mother Mary Rose Heery, prioress general of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, said, \u201cThis agreement brings real peace of mind to our Sisters, our residents, and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt allows us to continue our vocation of showing Christ\u2019s unbounded love to those who need it most \u2014 a love that endures in every circumstance and through every hardship,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful that nothing about the care we offer them will have to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Rienzi, president of Becket and lead attorney for the healthcare providers, said in a statement, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine a more blatant attack on religious freedom than forcing Catholic nuns to help people commit suicide. Illinois was right to agree to the court\u2019s order.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to ending this mandate for good and protecting the right of patients to spend their final days with those who will offer them compassionate, life-affirming care,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Specific \u201cCatholic health care entities\u201d under the authority of Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, four Catholic doctors and Lutheran Care Center, a nursing home in south-central Illinois, were also previously shielded from the Illinois law in response to a separate lawsuit.<\/p>\n

A federal judge in July also temporarily shielded four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a similar New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.<\/p>\n

The Catholic entities in the Empire State \u2014 the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, the Missionary Sisters of St. Benedict and the Little Sisters of the Poor \u2014 sued over New York\u2019s assisted suicide law, similarly arguing it would require them to facilitate deaths by assisted suicide for their patients in violation of their faith.<\/p>\n

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