This notion (I don't do "memes") is getting a lot of play in the media: that the Pope has left a de facto "living will." What they really mean is that he has said unequivocally that deliberate starvation is different from, say, declining dialysis or respiration when death is imminent.
If anyone can find a clear statement of the "more flexible earlier position," please post it here. I couldn't find it in Evangelium Vitae, but maybe I'm hermeneutically impaired. If so, please don't pull my food and water.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
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"the best way to promote the church is to dismantle it."
Is that like the apocryphal Vietnam Era quote, "We had to burn down the village in order to save it"?
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