Cardinal Mahony on California’s assisted suicide bill:

Cardinal Roger Mahony is urging Catholics to fight a proposed bill that would legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill in California.

"Assisted suicide is totally unnecessary — not only is it against God’s law, God’s plan, we simply don’t need something like that," said Cardinal Mahony during a noontime Mass on Monday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, reported The Associated Press.

The Cardinal-archbishop of Los Angeles said Catholics must put pressure on legislators to vote against “this attack on life."

Cardinal Mahoney also fiercely criticized the Legislature’s most prominent Democrat, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. The Catholic politician recently met with the Cardinal to discuss the proposal.

Nunez, he said, “somehow has not understood and grasped the culture of life but has allowed himself to get swept into this other direction, the culture of death.”