Cardinal says enough of euphemisms—Terry Schiavo was killed

Catholic News Agency ^ | July 26, 2005

[NYer]

Lima, Jul. 26, 2005 (CNA) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Heath Care, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, recalled the Terry Schiavo case this week and said “they killed her” by denying her food and hydration.

According to the cardinal, “Food and hydration are never considered medicine.”  “To remove them means euthanasia, it means killing, and so this woman was killed by hunger and starvation.  Let’s stop with the euphemisms—they killed her,” he stated.

“Law consists of a rational ordering that seeks the common good and not the common evil,” Cardinal Lozano noted, “but many times there are laws that are called laws but are nothing more than arbitrary norms.  In fact, the President of the United States was against this court decision because he had enough sense to realize it was incorrect.”

In today’s world, he stated, there is an abundance of euphemisms to disguise euthanasia.  “The dignity of death means that this person has the capacity to reach the fullness of maturity so that upon crossing the threshold he or she does so in full consciousness, blossoming forth completely in the Lord,” the cardinal added.

He also called for advances in palliative care in order to “resolve the problems of pain and so that individuals can be more aware and more united to Christ on the cross, and thus be more conscious of the beginning of the resurrection.”

Likewise, the cardinal pointed out that “a doctor who is not a believer is always a frustrated doctor.  The most advanced techniques, the most advanced medicines, are always met at the exit by the ironic laughter of death; on the other hand, the believer says no to death,” he said.

[NYer]

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Euthanasia

Often disguised by the name "mercy killing," euthanasia also is a form of homicide. No person has a right to take his own life, and no one has the right to take the life of any innocent person.

In euthanasia, the ill or elderly are killed, by action or omission, out of a misplaced sense of compassion, but true compassion cannot include intentionally doing something intrinsically evil to another person (cf. EV 73).

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[Coop]

"Let’s stop with the euphemisms—they killed her,” he stated.

Amen to that.

[bourbon]

Moral clarity bump!

[NYer]

Terri Ping!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Habemus Commonus Sensis

[FormerACLUmember]

With all due respect to Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan to whom I am most appreciative, Ms. Schiavo was brutally murdered... in the most horrific and inhumane fashion... in a manner of torture, starvation, and dehydration for which perpetrators are given long prison terms if they perform such monstrous deeds on an animal.

[Petronski]

Thank you, Cardinal. Obviously she was killed. It was a civil execution.

[sport]

I would say she was murdered.

[Piquaboy]

Who is it that should be held guilty for this murder? Which is what it really was.

[AnAmericanMother]

“A doctor who is not a believer is always a frustrated doctor. The most advanced techniques, the most advanced medicines, are always met at the exit by the ironic laughter of death; on the other hand, the believer says no to death,” he said.

Wise words from a holy man.

"Wider den Tod ist kein Krautlein gewachsen." No herb that grows will defend against death.

[HiTech RedNeck]

No herb that grows will defend against death.

Except for the Rose of Sharon. Thank goodness.

[AnAmericanMother]

Crux fidelis, inter omnes, arbor una nobilis,
Nulla silva, talem profert, fronde, flore, germine;
Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulce pondus sustinet.

- Venantius Fortunatus

"Sacred Cross - above all other
One and only noble Tree
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peer may be.
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron,
Sweetest weight is hung on thee."

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Monterrosa-24]

War and Politics make strange bedfellows and while there are important differences between Protestants and Catholics, we should stand together on this issue. Christians should side with Terry and Life and against the so-called "quality of life" euthanasia proponents. This is much more than a Catholic opinion.

It is sad that many if not most mainline Protestant denominations have been silent on this issue. But it is time we Protestants demand more from our organizations.

[night reader]

Let’s stop with the euphemisms—they killed her,” he stated.

I'm not Catholic, and I believe they get a lot of things wrong, But BAM!!! When they get it right, they get it RIGHT... and they ain't afraid to say it! Amen, Cardinal!

[joesnuffy]

She was torture murdered by the state

[The Great RJ]

As much as I cherish life and am against euthanasia, Terry Shivo, may she rest in peace, died a decade ago.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Christians should side with Terry and Life and against the so-called "quality of life" euthanasia proponents.

Yes, that is a very important point. The euthanasia crowd is the same as the abortion crowd who in turn are the collectivists who support national health care. It makes a nice package for managing a population from prebirth to death. And they call Bush Hitler!

[SoFloFreeper]

A South American cardinals "gets it". Too bad so many American catholics don't.