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Catholics who supported Schiavo killing now need to "seriously repent and
re-evaluate consciences" in light of Church's teaching
"And I repeat again to all clergy in My Son's House: you shall not rationalize sin. Abortion is murder, and murder condemns you to hell without repentance! Euthanasia is murder, and murder condemns you to hell without repentance! The Commandments of your God must be followed, and no changes will be made upon them to suit the basic fallen nature of mankind." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1979
Special to LifeSiteNews.com by HLI President Fr. Tom Euteneuer
LifeSiteNews reported on September 20, 2007:
Since the election of Pope Benedict, the Church has been renewed by an abundance of blessings flowing from the Vatican. In case you did not hear, the Pope's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has just released its answer to the question of providing nutrition and hydration (i.e., food and water) to persons in so-called vegetative states. Even though a child can figure out that it's not right to starve people to death, the Vatican set the issue to rest this week. In its technically-precise language, the CDF vindicated our beloved Terri Schiavo by saying that no one can dare to commit or justify such an atrocity as her killing by any interpretation of Catholic teachings. Period.
The CDF responded to a question from the US Catholic bishops who asked whether it was morally obligatory to give food and water to a patient in such a state. The response was unambiguous: "Yes. The administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary and proportionate means of preserving life. It is therefore obligatory to the extent to which, and for as long as, it is shown to accomplish its proper finality, which is the hydration and nourishment of the patient. In this way suffering and death by starvation and dehydration are prevented."
That was not all. The bishops further asked whether food and water could be withdrawn from the patient if there was no chance of recovery. Again, the CDF was unambiguous: "No. A patient in a 'permanent vegetative state' is a person with fundamental human dignity and must, therefore, receive ordinary and proportionate care which includes, in principle, the administration of water and food even by artificial means." And just to be sure that no stone was left unturned, the accompanying note said that this is always and everywhere true "in principle" even if there are truly exceptional circumstances where it is not morally obligatory to provide food and water. Such a case would be, for example, when the person's body is in such a state that it is physically unable to assimilate food and water. There would be no moral obligation to try and force nutrition into the person in that case, but clearly this is an exceptional circumstance which does not in any way undermine the principle of absolute respect for life in its most vulnerable moments.
How many of us, at the time of Terri Schiavo's death, actually heard even so-called "good Catholics" say that they should just let her die because "no one should have to live that way" and other nonsense like that? The real message of this declaration is that no one should have to think that murderous way any more.The Vatican has spoken with the clear voice of conscience and has also vindicated all of us who fought for Terri's life and dignity, not because we were pro-life activists, but because we are Catholics. Anyone who advocated her death in 2005, whether by sloppy reasoning or culpable agreement with the atrocity, needs to seriously repent and re-evaluate his conscience in light of the Church's teaching. After this declaration, there is no excuse for not getting it right.
Most culpable of all were the so-called "Catholic" theologians, false priests, such as Richard McBrien and John Paris, who shamelessly advocated Terri's death when she was being sold to her killers for thirty pieces of silver. Now that the CDF has made clear what any child knows, this would be the time for them to take a refresher course on actual Catholic teachings.
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There are four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance (extreme punishment):
1) Willful murder.
2) The sin of Sodom.
3) Oppression of the poor.
4) Defrauding the laborer of his wages.
Euthanasia, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, mercy
killing, and homosexuality cry out to Heaven for extreme punishment on the
United States.
Many people are ignorant of the Church's teaching regarding ordinary nursing care towards extremely ill or terminally ill patients. The Church states that "decisions about these patients should be guided by a presumption in favor of medically-assisted nutrition and hydration” and that for patients, even in an irreversible coma, "all care should be lavished on him, including feeding."
Pope John Paul II, March
20, 2004:
The Holy Father emphasized that water and food, even when administered
artificially, are "a natural means of preserving life, not a medical
procedure. Therefore, their use must be considered ordinary and appropriate and
as such, morally obligatory."
The probability that there is little hope for recovery, "when the
vegetative state lasts longer than a year, cannot ethically justify abandoning
or interrupting basic care, including food and hydration, of a patient."
Death by starvation or dehydration carried out "consciously or deliberately is
truly euthanasia by omission."
The Pope recalled the "moral principal according to which even the
slightest doubt of being in the presence of a person who is alive requires full
respect and prohibits any action that would anticipate his or her death. . The
value of the life of a man cannot be subjected to the judgement of quality
expressed by other men; it is necessary to promote positive activities to
counteract pressure for the suspension of food and hydration, as a means to
putting an end to the life of these patients."
Bishop Henry
Gracida (interview
with Barbara Kralis)
"Some Catholics would argue that they are simply
following their conscience and that the Church allows them to do so. They choose
to forget that the Church says that one can only safely follow an INFORMED
CONSCIENCE, i.e., a conscience that has been formed and illuminated by the
teachings of the Church. The Church has given clear and explicit guidelines
regarding the removal of a feeding tube through which 'nutrition and hydration'
is supplied to a sick person.
"All persons who wish to remain in communion with the Catholic Church, to
receive Holy Communion and the other Sacraments, must assent to the teachings of
the Church in matters of faith and morals.
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"If a person supports euthanasia and assisted-suicide through the
illicit rejection or removal of a feeding tube, they are not in communion with
the Church. They have separated themselves from the Church."
Pontifical Council on Health Affairs, “Cor Unum,” June 27, 1981:
“On the contrary, there remains the strict obligation to continue by all
means those measures which are called ‘minimal’, which are intended normally and
customarily for the maintenance of life (alimentation, blood transfusions,
injections, etc.). To interrupt these minimal measures would be equivalent, in
practice, to wishing to put an end to the life of the patient.”
Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 1985:
“If the patient is in a permanent coma, irreversible as far as it can
be foreseen, treatment is not required, but all care should be
lavished on him, including feeding... If treatment is of no
benefit to the patient, it may be interrupted while continuing with the care
of the patient.”
U.S.
Bishops, Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections:
”Therefore we are gravely concerned about current attitudes and
policy trends in our society that would too easily dismiss patients without
apparent mental faculties as non-persons or as undeserving of human care and
concern. In this climate, even legitimate moral arguments intended to have a
careful and limited application can easily be misinterpreted, broadened, and
abused by others to erode respect for the lives of some of our society’s most
helpless members. In light of these concerns, it is our considered judgment that
while legitimate Catholic moral debate continues, decisions about these
patients should be guided by a presumption in favor of medically-assisted
nutrition and hydration.”
New
Jersey Catholic Conference, January 22, 1987:
Another pertinent statement regarding the nutrition/hydration debate
was given by the New Jersey Catholic Conference on January 22, 1987 in a
friend-of-the-court brief entitled, “Providing Food and Fluids to Severely Brain
Damaged Patients.” This document was in reaction to the Nancy Ellen Jobes case
pending at the time before the New Jersey Court:
"The [New Jersey Catholic] Conference maintains that nutrition and hydration, being basic to human life, are aspects of normal care, which are not excessively burdensome, that should always be provided to a patient. Nutrition and hydration are clearly distinguished from medical treatment. Medical treatment is aimed at curing a disease. Nutrition and hydration are directed at sustaining life. Medical treatment is therapeutic; nutrition and hydration are not, because they will not cure any disease. For that fundamental reason we insist that nutrition and hydration must always be maintained....” (Origins, January 22, 1987, p. 583)
"No
man shall murder--and it is murder, My children, when he shall give the
excuse of saying an individual is no longer living or a part of the world
because he has become emaciated, because he lives only with prayers and the
help of all scientific means." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 5, 1976
"Who will be safe in your land, My children? You will one day grow old. Will you be a burden to your family, to be removed without heart? When you grow sick, you are ill, will you become too much of a burden to your society and they will remove you?" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 25, 1972
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