Two members of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life have come under fire for publicly urging support for assisted suicide as a tactic to prevent the legalization of voluntary euthanasia in Italy.
Jesuit Father Carlo Casalone, a professor of moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, proposed such an approach that critics stress fully contradicts Church teaching in a Jan. 15 article in the Jesuit periodical La Civilta Cattolica — a journal whose articles are cleared by the Secretariat of State.
His view was supported by fellow academy member Marie-Jo Thiel, professor of ethics at the University of Strasbourg, who wrote in the French newspaper Le Monde on Jan. 31 that Father Casalone’s suggestion was a sign of a broader change in the Church’s position.
Go here to read the rest. When words are used in this pontificate the meanings are often the opposite of what they were prior to this pontificate. Thus the Pontifical Academy for Life is in transition to the Pontifical Academy for Anti-Life.
I must be missing something- assisted suicide is voluntary euthanasia.
Douay-Rheims Bible.
But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.
This “broader change” being proposed, a change in the Church’s position, is to accomplish what exactly? Elevate an ego while degrading human life.
I know that there exists good Jesuits in the world. I just wished that they existed in Rome.
Some common Catholic sense from the article;
The correct course of action, Coghe said, is “always to evangelize,” to proclaim God’s love to the world, “which gives meaning to life and always makes it worthy.” He added that the “Church’s urgency” is not about “whether or how to pass assisted-suicide laws, but to help millions of uninformed, deceived and lost faithful cope with the changing times and the crises they face.”
Amen.
Gee, my “Moral Theology” courses taught that, “One may never do a little evil to bring about a greater good.” Am I missing something here?
Time to repress the Jesuits again but this time lets make it permanent.
I really don’t know about this one. If I followed the original article, there’s a recent judicial decision that broadens assisted suicide in some respects, and a proposed referendum that broadens it in others. The proposed legislation has some problems which are highlighted in the article, but the conclusion is that the legislation if cleaned up would constitute a stronger protection against assisted suicide, therefore it would be permissible to vote for it.
This is one of those questions I just don’t know the answer to: if you were a Congressman, and there was a bill that (say) permitted abortion in the first trimester and made it illegal thereafter, would it be morally acceptable to vote for it? I want to say no, but that would also mandate voting against any billions-dollar emergency defense bill that permitted contraception distribution at a field hospital.
Interesting Pinky
But The Church does/ has dealt with moral absolutes
While In the arena of politics there is typically discussion of situational ethics. The Church responsibility is to Truth. Not relative secular evaluations.
The Church is to hold the line.
I get that. And I’m glad I’ll never be a legislator. I just don’t know what the morally correct answer is. Should Casalone not have agreed to write the article? He published it too soon, for sure, speculating that the proposed law was better than the referendum which got rejected. But I wouldn’t have described the article as being about a distinction between assisted suicide and euthanasia – I don’t know if that’s a translation-into-English thing. The second article is in French, so I don’t know what it says, and the NCR article indicates that it was that article that sent the conversation in that direction. I don’t know, I’m just going to blame the French. Have any among us blamed the French and later regretted it?
“Suicide is Painless” (M.A.S.H Theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm6Yo
Speaking of suicide…
Let’s see who has given their Nihil Obstat to this;
https://www.faithwire.com/2022/02/17/chinas-communist-government-is-reportedly-rewriting-the-bible-and-calling-jesus-a-sinner-but-thats-not-all/
Imprimatur? Pope Franko?
Jesus a sinner and a killer too. Oh my. [?]
Wow.
What deal did Francis strike with the Chinese Communist Party?
** Imprimatur? Pope Franko? **
Sarcasm has gotten the better of me.
Please excuse my jab at the Pope.
I have resorted to saying something that I truly shouldn’t have and it’s because I broke a promise that I made to myself that it hurts. I haven’t a clue what the deal was, since it was a secret between the Vatican and the CCP. Who knows.
Maybe Pope Francis spared the lives of millions? I just hope he didn’t condemn the souls of billions to hell in the secret deal.
Didn’t shock me.