Father Bob Maguire adds to criticism of NSW government’s voluntary assisted dying laws
by Tamsin Rose from on (#5ZPPQ)
Catholic Weekly called on to apologise over editorial comparing new rights to the Holocaust
The maverick Catholic figure Father Bob Maguire has criticised New South Wales' premier and the state's parliament for passing voluntary assisted dying laws, after a scathing editorial on the legislation was published in the Catholic Weekly.
On Friday Jewish groups put pressure on the newspaper, funded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, to apologise and amend the piece, which compared the new laws with the Holocaust and criticised Dominic Perrottet's leadership.
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