A new article at Crux is titled Vatican loosens stance on food, water for patients in vegetative state. It reports on the “Pontifical Academy for Life” which just released an 80 page pamphlet in Italian nearly eliminating past parameters on end-of-life issues. Shockingly, even the USCCB admits that pamphlet contains “an evolution of church teaching” on end-of-life issues. If by “evolution” we mean a moral descent beneath how pagans know how to treat their elders, then that is accurate.
Now, according to Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the “Pontifical Academy for Life,” (all three words being false by this point) their end-of-life care comes down to “reducing at least that component of disagreement that depends on an imprecise use of the notions implied in speech” because “the statements that are sometimes attributed to believers and which are not rarely the result of cliches that have not been adequately scrutinized.”
If that paragraph doesn’t make any sense to you, it’s not supposed to. Heretics always hide their errors in ambiguous phrases that put you to sleep. What he’s saying is that past requirements not to kill old people have not been “adequately scrutinized” in this modern era of mercy-killing. In fact, according to Paglia, traditional Catholic bioethics is simply a “cliché.” (Like all heresies, nobody wants his rotten word salad, which is why his 80 page pamphlet costs €12 at the above link. Never before in the history of the Vatican has it hawked teachings for a bowl-of-porridge like these charlatans.)
Not that the 80 year old Paglia wants to be starved to death himself just yet. No, no. That 80 page document uses very crafty language to essentially say that starving people to death needs to be “safe, rare and legal.” Yes, I took those three adjectives out of Roe Vs. Wade, but that’s the basic notion of Paglia’s desire to “reduce… the component of disagreement” that the Catholic Church always had with the world, flesh and devil in trying to kill weak people.
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