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Vatican rebuked

Tuesday 23 February 1993 00:02 GMT
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AMSTERDAM (Reuter) - Cardinal Ad Simonis, head of the Dutch Roman Catholic church, distanced himself from remarks by a senior Vatican official, Elio Sgreccia, Secretary of the Vatican Council for the Family, comparing a new Dutch euthanasia law to Hitler's mass killings. Cardinal Simonis said the comments were 'unfortunate and betrayed a poor understanding of the law'.

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