The Archdiocese of Chicago, headed by Cardinal Blase Cupich, has dedicated a memorial to “honor the lives lost to suicide and offer a sacred space for prayer and remembrance,” while simultaneously telling Catholics that people who die by suicide are “not condemned.”
The archdiocese claimed in a press release that although “Historically, the Catholic Church denied Catholic funerals in churches and burials in consecrated ground for individuals who died by suicide … the Church has undergone a significant transformation in its understanding of suicide and mental illness and now recognizes that many who die by suicide suffer from mental illness and unbearable pain.”
“The Church now embraces these individuals and affirms that they are with God, not condemned,” Cupich’s archdiocese asserted.
Contrary to the press release, the Church teaches that suicide is a mortal sin and that committing it willfully leads to eternal damnation.
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