Posted on 11/18/2017 5:59:16 PM PST by marshmallow
Francis sends a message to a meeting on end-of-life in which he says the sick must be accompanied with love in the last phase of their life, given information and allowed to decide. This requires “careful discernment of the moral object, the attending circumstances, and the intentions of those involved”. From this perspective, palliative care plays a major role.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) – Pope Francis sent a message to the Pontifical Academy of Life on the occasion of the European regional meeting of the World Medical Association on the end-of-life issue.
In his letter, the pontiff said that from an ethical point of view, overzealous treatment “is completely different from euthanasia, which is always wrong, in that the intent of euthanasia is to end life and cause death”.
Following Catholic doctrine, the sick should be accompanied with love in the last phase of their life, given information and allowed to decide. This requires “careful discernment of the moral object, the attending circumstances, and the intentions of those involved.” From this perspective, palliative care plays a major role.
Such questions “have always challenged humanity, but [. . .] today take on new forms by reason of increased knowledge and the development of new technical tools” in medical care.
It has become “possible nowadays to extend life by means that were inconceivable in the past”. These “can sustain, or even replace, failing vital functions, but that is not the same as promoting health. Greater wisdom is called for today, because of the temptation to insist on treatments that have powerful effects on the body, yet at times do not serve the integral good of the person.”
To back his point, Francis cites Pope Pius XII who in 1957 wrote that “it is morally licit to decide not to adopt therapeutic measures, or to........
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Not something that happens every day.....
For those interested in bioethics:
https://www.ncbcenter.org/
“The National Catholic Bioethics Center”
Francis has the same ideology as those who support abortion on the grounds that babies are a poison to the planet.
I’m betting Francis has advocated for small families too.
there. fixed it.
Shouldn’t the option to seek treatment be up to the person? I would think most of us would agree that stopping treatment for a terminal condition is not euthanasia. The exception would be if the patient has no say in the matter and this would be involuntary euthanasia.
Why waste time with this rock star popester? The man is a fool and a Marxist.
Infallible... lol
Frances is always wrong.
Remember his crack about “breeding like rabbits”?
Yet he says nothing about the Muslims that breed like cockroaches (even worse than rabbits I might add).
Matter of fact our leaders, and those across Europe, complain that we are not producing enough offspring so we need to therefore import groups that do. This after telling us for decades that we need to stop having such big families. The insanity drives me insane.
Overzealous Treatment = A science project
I have lost 3 close relatives to “science projects” which turned into very expensive and terminal outcomes. Sad, torturous endings.
At this point I will opt for a comfortable (drugs) ending.
It is a plan of ethnic genocide, instituted by globalists throughout Western Civilization, that is based on erasing and replacing.
Maybe he should be named the “Eggo” Pope for excessive waffling....
Well, got to keep up the farce ya know.
When speaking Ex-Cathedra on faith and morals. This would fall under morals, but doesn't meet the requirements for being a Ex-Cathedra declaration.
Per the usual with Comrade Franics, he's shooting his mouth off.
LOL!
Not what the Bible says, is it?
Not what the Bible says, is it?
“Be fruitful and multiply.”
Absolutely not, which is why I contend that the Pope is a fake.
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