Good @roddreher post digging into the Canadian bishops letter on "pastoral accompaniment" for premeditated suicide:http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/tenderness-leads-to-the-gas-chamber/ …
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I wrote some angry tweets about this last night. That anger has not cooled. That letter offers articles of Catholic surrender to euthanasia.
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But of course that's just my arrogance and tyranny speaking:https://twitter.com/roccopalmo/status/808698103285055489 …
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Some background reading on the trajectory of euthanasia in the West:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/22/the-death-treatment …
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@ChuckLane1 who's written some very good stuff on this:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/europes-morality-crisis-euthanizing-the-mentally-ill/2016/10/19/c75faaca-961c-11e6-bc79-af1cd3d2984b_story.html?utm_term=.febdc3ea53a1 …1 reply 12 retweets 16 likes -
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The Church in the 20th century was wise to recognize how mental illness + pain diminish moral culpability for suicide.
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But that's worlds away from telling ppl that while they *plan* their suicides, the Church will non-judgmentally accompany them to a quietus.
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The intra-Canadian difference is a case study in Catholicism's "different regions, different teachings" drift. But really that's secondary.
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The primary thing is that Catholic bishops are urging priests to become gentle, humane, religious auxiliaries of the culture of death.
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C'mon Ross, this give you NO pause about dangers latent in Roman teaching on confession, intercession, magisterium, anything?
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