Cardinal Cupich, Catholic Religious Sisters Sue Illinois to Halt Assisted Suicide Law

September 3, 2026 World News

A group of Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm pose at St. Patrick’s Residence in Naperville in an undated photograph. The nuns joined their fellow religious alongside Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago on Sept. 3 in suing the state of Illinois over its assisted suicide law.

The state recently began allowing doctors to help patients kill themselves by prescribing lethal doses of medication.

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