“Today when we celebrate the memory of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to the little shepherds of Fatima, I am very sad because in the country where Our Lady appeared, a law to kill has been enacted,” he said during the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organization meeting at the Vatican.

“It is one more step in the long list of countries with euthanasia,” Pope Francis said. …

In Portugal, the new legislation allows doctors to help people commit suicide if they are “in a situation of great intensity of suffering, with definitive injury of extreme gravity or serious and incurable disease.” Doctors also may euthanize patients if the person has a disability and cannot commit suicide themselves, according to the report.