TradCatKnight: Canadian bishops approve last rites before euthanasia: ‘Francis is our model!’
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 17:51
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Canadian bishops approve last rites before euthanasia: ‘Francis is our model!’
Canadian bishops approve last rites before euthanasia: ‘Francis is our model!’
Francis the “mercy” model
The Conciliar Church objectively speaking is not “Catholic”.
The Catholic bishops of Atlantic Canada are citing Pope Francis and his controversial exhortation Amoris Laetitia to support a decision allowing priests latitude to decide whether to give euthanasia seekers the sacraments before they are killed.
In announcing it, the bishops rejected the approach of Alberta’s bishops, who, while also stressing “pastoral accompaniment,” insisted that in justice and mercy priests ought to be clear with euthanasia seekers that they would be committing a gravely sinful act.
The Atlantic bishops’ November 27 guidelines are closer to the Quebec bishops’ pastoral response to euthanasia than the response of the Alberta bishops, according to Bishop Claude Champagne of Edmunston, New Brunswick, president of the Atlantic Episcopal Assembly.
The document, entitled A Pastoral Reflection on Medical Assistance in Dying and signed by 10 bishops, emphasizes pastoral care more than doctrine, Champagne told the Catholic Register.
“Our concern is pastoral accompaniment. Pope Francis is our model,” he said.
Champagne said the guidelines released by the Alberta and Northwest Territories bishops in September do not, in the words of the Catholic Register, “express the vision of all Canada’s bishops.”
Champagne also referred to the Holy Father’s Amoris Laetitia in explaining the Atlantic bishops’ vision of pastoral care for those contemplating or arranging for assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Amoris Laetitia affirms Catholic teaching while recognizing “there are people who are not yet there,” Champagne said.
Thus when it comes to people who are suffering and contemplating, or are arranging for assisted suicide or euthanasia, “we will welcome them, try to understand and journey with them.”
LifeSiteNews was not able to reach Bishop Champagne before deadline.
The Atlantic bishops’ document, a mere three pages compared with the Alberta bishops’ 34-page Vademecum for Priests and Parishes, also quotes Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, or Joy of the Gospel.
The Holy Father “reminds us that the one who accompanies others must realize that each person’s situation before God and his/her life of grace are mysteries which no one can fully know from without,” the Atlantic bishops write.
“Consequently, we must not make judgments about people’s responsibility and culpability.”
“To one and all we wish to say that the pastoral care of souls cannot be reduced to norms for the reception of the sacraments or the celebration of funeral rites,” they note.
“Persons, and their families, who may be considering euthanasia or assisted suicide and who request the ministry of the Church need to be accompanied with dialogue and compassionate prayerful support,” the bishops note.
This pastoral accompaniment will “shed light on complex pastoral situations and will indicate the most appropriate action to be taken, including whether or not the celebration of sacraments is proper.”
The “Sacrament of Penance is for the forgiveness of past sins, not the ones that have yet to be committed, and yet the Catechism reminds us that by ways known to God alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance (CCC, no. 2283).”
The “Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is for strengthening and accompanying someone in a vulnerable and suffering state. It presupposes one’s desire to follow Christ even in his passion, suffering and death; it is an expression of trust and dependence on God in difficult circumstances (CCC, no. 1520-3).” Read more »
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