Catholic Medical Quartery Vol 76 (1) February 2026
Contents February 2026
Editorials
When your Doctor thinks it’s good for you

Assisted Suicide
The demise of the Assisted Dying Bill- a cautionary note
Making the impossible impossible once more
The demise of the Across
charity
Papers
Promoting risky unprotected sex is not a breakthrough for women’s
rights
Lucy Marsh - Family Eduction Trust
Papal Patronage on Vaccines
A history of Vatican leadership in
vaccine science and public health
Dr René F. Najera
Teaching Natural Family Planning on-line in Australia
Jess
Dzierbicki
Nourishing the Luteal phase: Understanding and supporting
progesterone naturally
Dr Monika Dowejko, Natural Family Planning
Teachers Association
Report
Euthanasia in the
Netherlands
Dr Tony Cole
News
Assisted Dying Bill slammed by King’s College as dangerously inadequate’
Dr Michael Straiton
Canadian Physician sends pen Letter to the House of Lords (UK) opposing assisted suicide
Book Reviews
The right to reproduce: a history of coercive
sterilisation
Stephen Trombley
Mysticism, Magic and Monasteries:
Recovering the Sacred Mystery at the Heart of Reality
Sebastian Morello
All things are
possible: The selected writings of Mother Cabrini
Dawn Beutner
Correspondence
China’s birth rate crisis
Fr Shenan Bouquet