Canon Law Blog Update--Proposal: Impose excommunication for euthanasia
I agree, and think that this is late in coming, actually, considering Terri Schiavo was Catholic, and Michael was married (twice now) in the Catholic Church....
I also draw your attention to the article he links to below (teens 'needing' euthanasia in Belgium... )
God bless!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Edward Peters
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Proposal: Impose excommunication for euthanasia
For some months I have been researching and writing an article on euthanasia in canon law. I hoped against hope that it might remain an academic exercise, but (to judge from, say, this report on the practice of euthanasia in Belgium) the speed with which the Western, specifically Christian, protection of innocent life is collapsing suggests that one of my projected canonical recommendations deserves an earlier hearing than appearance in a peer-reviewed journal can afford. Simply put, I recommend that euthanasia be made an excommunicable offense under the 1983 Code of Canon Law.
Read why here.
From: Edward Peters
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Proposal: Impose excommunication for euthanasia
For some months I have been researching and writing an article on euthanasia in canon law. I hoped against hope that it might remain an academic exercise, but (to judge from, say, this report on the practice of euthanasia in Belgium) the speed with which the Western, specifically Christian, protection of innocent life is collapsing suggests that one of my projected canonical recommendations deserves an earlier hearing than appearance in a peer-reviewed journal can afford. Simply put, I recommend that euthanasia be made an excommunicable offense under the 1983 Code of Canon Law.
Read why here.
LightoftheLaw URL: http://www.canonlaw.info/blog.html
posted by WI Catholic @ 3/28/2008 09:55:00 AM
4 Comments:
I find Dr. Peters to be very offensive in his selective use of excommunication.
He is a HUGE PROPONENT of Annulments, which he knows are preceeded by NO FAULT divorces that are REQUIRED by the Catholic Church.
The evidence is significant that unjust divorces, which the vast majority of divorces are, is itself a form of attempted murder and everyone knows that the Catholic Church encourages all types of illicit relationships through the justification of being "PASTORAL" or "for the good of the children of adultery". The excuse being that the "lovers" live as "brother and sister", even as they continue to persecute their victims, legally, who are to a great extent, defenseless!
How many "brothers and sisters" have children together and wear wedding bands, and advertise their "marriages" in public? My wife and her adulterous partner do, with the complete blessing of the Catholic Church and, their proxy, the state! Yet we are to believe this "brother and sister" GARBAGE?
It is factual that divorced spouses' health deteriorates at a measureably faster rate and many suicides are attributable to unjust divorce as are many early deaths. Is it not murder to intend to kill someone by inches while using the State, through its draconian treatment of non custodial parents, particularly fathers in most cases but not all? Does it not destroy men and women to see their adulterous spouses and their public "lovers" embraced by the Catholic Church, as the Pope has publicly bemoaned how difficult their situations are(although he has conveniently not mentioned those they have abandoned to pursue their "lovers", including both spouses and children), while they are forgotten and persecuted on every level by their abandoning spouses and their "lovers"? Or does the Catholic Church not care at all, both corporately and on an individual basis? There are mountains of evidence that the injustice in these situations is often fatal. Why the silence from the clergy? What are the "dirty secrets" the clergy are hiding?
Why does this Canonist not request that unjust divorce be made an excommunication offense?
No person can stop an unjust divorce and the Catholic Church will do nothing to help, yet provides copious incentive for it with its obsecenely high nullity rates and obstinate refusal to hold accountable perjurers and clergy who are shown to have violated the sanctity of valid marriage through the nullity system, so proudly advocated in every single diocese in the United States!
What does the good Dr say regarding the FIRST INSTANCE court, The Roman Rota, and its 20% nullity rate versus the vast majority of American cities with rate near 90%?
This man knows that there has never been a, published secularly and widely, thorough retrospective study of American decisions(past 30 years or so) by retired Rotal judges. So, he knows there is no way to adequately evaluate these, over a million annulments, that have been granted in the US.
Why is he silent? Or has he defended this system, which he knows is not adequately administrated?
To his credit, he has called for a more public publishing of the results of nullity investigations but, sensibly, not the particulars.
For this I thank him.
Come on Ed, you are much too intelligent and articulate to not know how wrong what is going on is.
Karl J Wengenroth
Not sure if his book is considered defending the system or not, but I think it does. I don't agree with him on most things regarding Nullity, obviously due to no fault, forced, and unilateral divorce being the evil it is.
And I agree with nearly everything you have written, Karl. I have nearly given up on most Canon Lawyers ever becoming a Thomas More or a John Fisher. Nearly only because God can raise up a loud and strong defender today, as He did in Henry VIII's time. The difference is that today, they would not be physically martyred.
And that I pray for always.
St Thomas More, pray for us.
St John Fisher, pray for us.
St Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle...
I do agree that he is too intelligent and articulate NOT to know that what is going on is wrong. Very wrong...as is another Canon Lawyer I have spoken to about this topic....
God bless, Karl!!
interesting topic. thanks for this good luck to you. thanks again and more power,
church supplies... this comment just does not seem to fit with the topic. Why is this an interesting topic to you?
If it is to lead people to your sales website, I can guarantee you, I don't get all that much traffic.
God bless!
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