Terrence Prendergast

Canadian archbishop: Last rites can be denied to those seeking assisted suicide

By David Gibson — February 27, 2016
(RNS) The bottom line, said Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, is that a Catholic who requests assistance in dying “lacks the proper disposition for the anointing of the sick."

Canadian archbishop bans eulogies at funeral Masses

By Ron Csillag — February 21, 2014
(RNS) The Feb. 2 decree from Archbishop Terrence Prendergast reminds the faithful that Catholics gather at funerals "not to praise the deceased, but to pray for them."
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