Posted on 05/03/2018 3:43:27 PM PDT by ebb tide
Texas bishops are actually supporting end-of-life directives that allow Texas hospitals to kill their patients much the same as U.K. hospitals did to Alfie Evans and Charlie Guard.
The Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA) allows hospitals, not patients or family members to decide when to withdraw life-sustaining care from patients if doctors deem continued care to be futile. The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops (TCCB) last year showed strong support for the measure: "Human intervention that would deliberately cause, hasten or unnecessarily prolong the patient's death violates the dignity of the human person. ... TCCB strongly supports §166.046 as indispensable for ensuring dignity at end of life."
In other words, providing such basics as food, water and oxygen to someone would prolong their life, which they surmise would not be merciful. This was exactly the argument Alder Hey hospital used to kill Alfie Evans against the plea of his parents.
Pope St. John Paul II strongly opposed this mentality and practice. In his 2004 address on "life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state," John Paul II taught that food and water must always be offered even when it's artificially provided. "The sick person in a vegetative state, awaiting recovery or a natural end," said the Pope, "still has the right to basic health care (nutrition, hydration, cleanliness, warmth, etc.)." He added, "Death by starvation or dehydration is ... euthanasia by omission."
The Culture of Death isn't being staunchly attacked in Texas because social justice bishops are instead attacking the very groups who are fighting for life from womb to tomb such as the Texas Right to Life. Earlier this year Texas bishops issued a parish advisory attacking the oldest and largest pro-life group in Texas.
Watch the panel discuss Catholic support of social justice politicians in The Download—TX Bishops the Culture of Death.
Dinardo refused to attend a public protest when Planned Parenthood opened its largest abortion facility in Houston, Texas.
Fornicating and freeloading seem to be pet causes for a lot of prelates these days.
TEXAS bishops are largely no longer Catholic, staunchly into the open borders agenda and the political track of Bergoglio.
At this point, with no relief for miles and miles, and hours and hours away, it is hard not to wish for a formal break from the evil and to hope rather for peace, which prays that the FSSP will stand and even LEAD a resistance, by making an appearance in spaces where they are begged to come by laity.
Right now, the FSSP standard is that they enter no diocese without an invitation from the Bishop. Regardless if there is a contingency of Catholics able to support an FSSP priest and to erect or provide a chapel conducive to their apostolate, which is the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, it is their charge to stay obedient to the heirarchy and enter not.
Summorum Pontificum is of no count with most bishops and relegated to the ash bin throughout large swaths of TEXAS.
There are flourishing FSSP churches in both Dallas and Houston.
The day will come when these bishops and doctors will reap the whirlwind.
“Right now, the FSSP standard is that they enter no diocese without an invitation from the Bishop.”
That’s not their standard. That’s canon law. They have no faculties unless invited by the Bishop. Remember, SSPX confessions and weddings are invalid because they have no faculties in any diocese in the world. Last I heard the Vatican is trying to come up with provisions for that: https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/pope-approves-provisions-recognize-marriages-sspx-faithful
“Fornicating and freeloading seem to be pet causes for a lot of prelates these days.”
That’s not DiNardo’s MO at all:
https://zenit.org/articles/cardinal-dinardo-on-planned-parenthood-launch-formal-investigations/
Thanks for that qualifying statement. I was not informed of the “standard” as being beset of canon law. Thanks very much.
So... we’re pretty much stewed.
We have need of an emergency valve in canon law to loosen the shackles of those shepherds willing to feed the sheep and use their rod to fend off the shepherd wolves bent on pasturing the flock in heresy and impiety.
What everyone who wants a Latin Mass in a diocese needs to do is to start opening canvassing for one. Set up an organization, gather members, start asking the bishop and priests for a Latin Mass. Start a website where you document your progress - that’s very public and impossible to suppress. Also, appeal to Rome if you can’t get anywhere with your ordinary.
If (or when) all else fails, threaten to bring in SSPX if no indult Mass or FSSP Mass is offered.
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