Writing in a Catholic newspaper in Australia, Monica Doumit notes that her country is heading down the same road of euthanasia that Canada has been on for nearly a decade.
In an article titled “Thank God for Catholic media, or we’d never know the truth on euthanasia,” Doumit wrote in The Catholic Weekly, “With wall-to-wall euthanasia on the verge of being implemented across the country, you’d think that journalists would be looking to hold Australia’s governments to account.”
Doumit writes extensively about the situation in B.C., particularly highlighting the work of The B.C. Catholic in reporting what no one else will.
In Australia, media outlets are running a campaign to force Catholic hospitals and other facilities to offer abortion and euthanasia, just like in B.C. “We need to remain vigilant,” Doumit writes. “Thank God for good Catholic publications like The B.C. Catholic and The Catholic Weekly, which continue to hold these campaigns—and the governments that fall for them—to account.”
To help tell stories across Canada that are not being told right now, we need journalists who can share those stories, which is no easy task. As a result, The B.C. Catholic, The Catholic Register, and Canadian Catholic News have been offering introductory journalism courses for over a year to train journalists in truth-based reporting.
The next session of Telling Truth in Charity: Introduction to Catholic Journalism will be offered online starting Sept. 24, with weekly classes on interviewing, writing, copyediting, and more, all through a Catholic lens that includes Church teaching on social communications, theological reflections on journalism, ethics, and the characteristics of a Catholic journalist.
For more information or to sign up for the course, visit canadiancatholicnews.ca/journalism.
