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Repeated defiance of Rome:
Cardinal Martini defies Pope; sabotages Church’s teaching on life...
"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
LifeSiteNews reported on January 30, 2007:
The retired Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has struck another subversive blow to the clearly defined teachings of the Catholic Church on life, reports Vatican expert Sandro Magister in the Italian journal Chiesa, who says “the real clash is between Martini and the Pope.”
Just nine months previously, Martini, a high profile leader in the Catholic Church, exposed his public dissent from the Church’s life teachings on artificial insemination, embryos, abortion, and euthanasia published in the Italian weekly L’espresso in what Magister wrote was a “bombshell manifesto of opposition to the reigning pope.”
Back then, Martini contradicted Church teaching on euthanasia saying, “The pursuit of physical human life is not, in itself, the first and absolute principle. Above this stands the principle of human dignity.”
In the January 21 Sunday edition front page of Il Sole 24 Ore, the leading economics and finance newspaper in Italy, and one of the most influential in Europe, appears Martini’s elaborated dissent entitled “Welby, Death, and Me.” The piece comes in the wake of the assisted suicide of Piergiorgio Welby last Christmas; a man who became a cause célèbre of the “right-to-die” movement after an Italian doctor removed his ventilator on his request.
The former archbishop of Milan contended that cases like Welby do not actually constitute euthanasia, because the seriously ill person has at every moment the right to interrupt the care that keeps him alive (with some exceptions) and may discontinue “the use of disproportionate medical procedures without any reasonable hope for a positive outcome.”
“By interrupting these – the cardinal writes, citing the Catechism – “one does not will to cause death; one's inability to impede it is merely accepted.”
However, the Cardinal’s statements put him in conflict with the Church because he declares the patient is the competent authority in most cases to determine whether or not his treatment is proportionate, and legitimizes exclusionary euthanasia, where a patient dies after life-preserving medical treatment is withdrawn.
In this way the Cardinal legitimizes as morally licit the exclusionary euthanasia of Piergiorgio Welby, who – as the cardinal himself wrote – “lucidly asked for the suspension of respiratory support therapies, which in the past nine years have been constituted by a tracheotomy and an automatic ventilator.” However even “right-to-die” enthusiasts such as Umberto Veronesi, an oncologist of worldwide fame, deny this rationale describing exclusionary euthanasia as “suicide.”
“Such situations,” Martini writes, “will be increasingly more frequent, and the Church itself will need to give them more attentive consideration, including pastoral consideration.”
This last part has been seen as an indirect rebuke of Pope Benedict XVI’s “pastoral consideration” in the case of Welby for refusing Welby a funeral. The diocese of Rome denied a request from Welby’s wife for a Catholic funeral since Welby “repeatedly and publicly affirmed his desire to end his life, something that is incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”
Although nine months ago leading Church officials had avoided replying in public to Martini’s previous shocking dissent, this time Church officials have been quicker to respond to Martini’s departures, although remain hesitant to enter into an open confrontation by naming him directly.
A decisive response came from Elio Sgreccia, titular bishop of Zama, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and for years the most authoritative representative of the Church’s official positions in the area of bioethics in “Corriere della Sera,” the major newspaper of Milan, Martini’s former archdiocese. Citing John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae”, Sgreccia wrote that euthanasia is still the same offense against life even when it is “exclusionary,” or when it omits “an effective and rightful therapy, the withholding of which intentionally causes death.”
Sgreccia also reiterated that the doctor, not the patient, must evaluate the “proportionality” of the medical treatment and must not be “a simple executor of [a patient’s] wishes” and is bound to object conscientiously if a patient groundlessly refuses medical treatment.
See Sandro Magister’s full article in Chiesa:
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=115421...See Related LifeSite coverage:
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06042108.htmlControversial Cardinal Martini Interview Caused High Level Vatican Meeting
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06050205.htmlPope Benedict Praised Cardinal Martini Weeks Before Abortion-IVF Betrayal
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06042406.htmlVatican Says No Change to Teaching Against Condom Use
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06050502.htmlDiocese of Rome Refuses Catholic Funeral for Catholic Right-to-Die Activist
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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:
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.
[3]
"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)
"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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EUTHANASIA
“The time will come, My child, when those who are upon the earth will envy
those have passed beyond the veil. Insanity, sin. Sin is insanity. The aged will
be put to death, the crippled will be put to death, the mentally ill will be
eliminated. The value of life will be gone. The value for life will be
destroyed. Murderers! Sanctioned among those with the power to destroy the
souls!” – Jesus, March 18, 1974
TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
"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. The Eternal Father has placed a soul in that body. That
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit! No man can know when that soul must
return to the Eternal Father. No man shall hasten its exit from a body by
murder! Euthanasia is murder! Shall you become a judge over the living and the
dead?" - Our Lady, June 5, 1976
CONDEMNS
TO HELL
"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.
"The road to Heaven, My children, is a narrow one; too few stay upon it.
For they are often carried away with the cares of the world, and the pleasures
of the materialistic pursuits, and their gathering of money and prestige and
power. For what? For the few short years allotted to each human upon earth. I
ask you to ask yourself: is it worth it to lose your soul? Many will sell their
souls to get to the head." - Our Lady, November 20, 1979
START AND
EXPIRATION OF LIFE
"The Eternal Father is much distressed by mankind's actions. They must not try
to control the start and expiration of a life. Abortion is murder, My children,
for you bring to an untimely end a mission of a soul. The Eternal Father
breathes the spirit of life into the body at the moment of conception. No man
shall destroy this body until it has completed its mission as directed by the
Eternal Father, for any man who destroys the mission and the body is guilty of
murder. Euthanasia, untimely death, My children, man has transgressed into a
form of evil far worse than in the time of Noe or Sodom. Therefore, how great
shall be the punishment to mankind!" - Our Lady, June 12, 1976
GREAT CHASTISEMENT
"My child and My children, the murders of the unborn will bring great
chastisement upon the United States, Canada, and the nations of the world, that
are now contributing not only to the delinquency of your children and the
world's children, but are condoning murder and euthanasia. Euthanasia, My child
and My children, is murder!
"We have been very patient. The Eternal Father has voiced His decision
within My hearing, and I tell you, My children, your chastisement is just at
hand." - Jesus, July 1, 1985
DOCTORS OF THE EARTH
"I have, O woe to man, this saddest of
stories: one of man against man, brother against brother, mother against
daughter, father against son, in the battle of the spirits. Now, O poor aged and
helpless, poor on earth, you will now be victims of your own. Doctors of the
earth, what have you done to yourselves in your practices? You do not seek to
preserve life, but to destroy.” – Our Lady, March 18, 1973
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D247 - Euthanasia & Murder
Articles...
Archbishop Burke warns U.S. legal infanticide, euthanasia are next
http://www.tldm.org/News10/EuthanasiaArchbishopBurke.htmEuthanasia is murder
http://www.tldm.org/news6/euthanasia1.htmCatholic hospitals defy John Paul II on feeding tubes
http://www.tldm.org/News6/euthanasia2.htmPope John Paul II said euthanasia "seeks to establish who can live and who must die"
http://www.tldm.org/news7/euthanasia3.htmCardinal Pell calls for "whole new form" of democracy and asks: "Does democracy need abortion, euthanasia and pornography to be democratic?"
http://www.tldm.org/news7/pell2.htmEarlier screening for Down's Syndrome may fuel eugenic pogrom against disabled
http://www.tldm.org/news8/euthanasiadown%27ssyndrome.htmNetherlands set to give go ahead to child euthanasia
http://www.tldm.org/news8/euthanasianetherlands.htmCatholics in UK carrying ID cards asking not to be starved to death in hospitals
http://www.tldm.org/News10/UKCatholicsCarryingIDcards.htm
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