Where the Rubber Hits the Road

Below is the text of a letter from a brother priest on the subject of Bill C-384 and the need for a stronger Catholic voice in this debate. ---------------------------------- The reality of the strong disconnect between the vision of life espoused by our faith and the secular positivist view that places individual choice at the front of every queue is something I've been aware of since undergrad. I do think that the Church not only needs to articulate our understanding of the gift of life; we also need to demonstrably live it. On the home front Archbishop Collins has been encouraging people to exercise their citizenship on this issue. The challenge not only exists with bishops who may be unreasonably or reasonably hesitant, but with our people who have shown little interest in translating their faith into votes, candidacy or partisan activities. This present bill appears to be softening the way. Groups like COLF and the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute are also makin...

Bishop Fred Henry has sent me the following text which he has issued in opposition to Bill C-384. THANK YOU Bishop Henry!! Now, let's hear from the other Bishops in our land. -------------------------------------------- Euthanasia bill should be killed Bishop Fred Henry Opposition to Bill C-384 has nothing to do with fear-mongering, nor special interest groups. The issue is one of wide-ranging medical, moral and societal concern but also widespread confusion evidenced in your own editorial. A major cause of the confusion is what George Orwell, in his essay, Politics and the English Language, calls the language of "euphemisms, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." Some of the language being used in the euthanasia debate appears "designed to makes lies sound truthful and murder acceptable, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." The rhetoric of "choice," "aid-in-dying," "compassion," "a new medic...