Teaching Euthanasia
Teaching EuthanasiaBy Patrick J. Reilly
The intense battle to prevent Terri Schiavo’s husband from removing her feeding tube was horrible enough. To think that some American Catholic universities—and their ethics, theology, law, and medical professors—bear some responsibility for Schiavo’s slow death is almost too much to imagine.
Yet prior to Schiavo’s death, professors from top Catholic universities helped convince the courts and the public that removing her feeding tube was acceptable and consistent with Catholic teaching—even while the Vatican said it was euthanasia. Several professors sought to publicly undermine Pope John Paul II’s clear statements on the moral obligation to feed and hydrate even the most severely injured patients.
Once again we see how many, even in Catholic acadamia, are promoting the "culture of death" so often spoken of by John Paul the Great. I suppose I expect this kind of viewpoint from the secular world, but it does cut to the quick when I hear this kind of talk coming from supposedly "Catholic" educators. A phrase that I am rather fond of comes to mind: "educated to the point of idoitcy". Read the entire article at the following link.
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