Posted on 11/07/2021 8:19:35 PM PST by ebb tide
New Zealand's bishops de facto accept a new “End-of-Life Choice Act” euthanasia law that comes into effect November 7.
Five pages of verbose guidelines for priests call it a “sign of good intent” when persons planning to kill themselves request spiritual accompaniment. Speaking about "assisted dying," the bishops expect that the wanna-be suicides' request will be granted.
They call it "proper" to give the sacraments to suicides who requests them, and claim that priests ("ministers") are entitled to presume that a suicide who conscientiously transgresses the fifth commandment ("thou shalt not kill") and asks for the sacraments "does so in good faith."
The bishops call on priests "to affirm God’s mercy" by presiding at the funeral of cold-blooded suicides. For those priests who see through the episcopal bag of tricks, the guidelines propose the Anglican solution: a priest not willing to grin and bear it, may opt out but must find another priest who will commit the crime.
According to Catholic Faith, suicide is an evil punished by God with hell. That's why the merciful Catholic Church before Vatican II did everything to prevent it.
Ping
Soon they will be featuring special blessings and speaking gigs for women who had abortions. This is the result of tolerating an agnostic pope and his sycophants.
These are not Catholic Bishops….rread the article.
These are not Catholic Bishops….rread the article.
Really? 
It refers to “thou shalt not kill” as the fifth commandment. That is the Catholic count of the Ten Commandments. For Anglicans and other Protestants (except Lutherans) that is the sixth commandment. They are Catholic bishops.
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