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The Coronotion of the Blessed Virgin
Mary in Heaven |
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The Coronotion of the Blessed Virgin
Mary in Heaven |
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Catechism-Life [USCCB] ; ERDs [pdf ] ; Christ the Good Samaritan [Vatican]
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From a Powerpoint presentation by Fr.
Marco Durazo, Rector of St. John's Seminary - used with permission |
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FOR many centuries the Catholic Church has taught what is now clearly stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church with regard to withdrawing or withholding medical treatment:
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§2278. Discontinuing medical procedures that are [:] |
2278 Cessatio a mediis medicinalibus, |
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burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome |
onerosis, periculosis, extraordinariis vel talibus quae cum effectibus obtentis proportionata non sunt, |
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can be legitimate; it is the refusal of “over-zealous” treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one’s inability to impede it is merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and legitimate interests must always be respected. |
legitima esse potest. Haec est recusatio « saevitiae therapeuticae ». Hoc modo, non intenditur mortem inferre; accipitur non posse eam impedire. Decisiones suscipiendae sunt ab aegroto, si ad id competentiam habeat et capacitatem, secus autem ab illis qui ad id, secundum legem, habent iura, rationabilem aegroti voluntatem et legitimum commodum semper observantes. |
Richness of the Catholic Bioethics Heritage (timeline); Alphonsus Ligouri nav.
a. Magisterial Texts: Catechism; USCCB-ERDs; Christ the Good Samaritan V.2.
Catholic understanding of Horror Vehemens
b. Nutrition and Hydration in Catholic Tradition (timeline); Alphonsus Ligouri nav.
Distinction between imminent death and the Persistent Vegetative State
Benedict XVI and the CDF on nutr./hydr. care for PVS patients
Recent Research that vindicates Pope Benedict's approach
POLST: Intention in Law and Catholic controversy (bishops - nav.)
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3a. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
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LA Archdiocese
Advanced Health Care Directive [local pdf]:
website:
https://lacatholics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Advanced-Healthcare-Directive.pdf
b. Advance Directives: DPHAC and POLST
When CPR is effective/ineffective. (Leslie Blackhall article in NEJM)
3b. ORGAN DONATION
Magisterial Texts:
Evangelium Vitae;
Benedict XVI;
Catechism;
USCCB ERDs;
Pontif.Acad.Science on Brain Death
No papal organ donor
Recent Vatican Conference on potential and actual abuses; Case in Calif. (Navarro)
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St. Elizabeth Cologne Master, late 14th c |
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4a. PALLIATIVE CARE
Magisterial Texts: (1. CATECHISM of the CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1984; 2. Bl. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Evangelium Vitae, 1985; 3. POPE BENEDICT XVI, 2006 & 2007; 4. POPE FRANCIS; 5. USCCB (2011), PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE - THREAT TO PALLIATIVE CARE)
Christ the Good Samaritan V.4. (Palliative care) and V.7 (PAIN CONTROL up to UNCONSCIOUSNESS.
4b. EUTHANASIA and PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Magisterial Texts: Iura et Bona; Catechism; Christ the Good Samaritan V.11 (on the sacraments)n
Euthanasia in the Netherlands and in the USA
California Aid-in-Dying Legislation: Summary; Text of the Law
California Medical Association: Concerns Regarding P.A.S.
Catholic Pastoral Concerns and Response to P.A.S.
A Suicide Party in Ojai - August, 2016
States that permit Physician-Assisted Suicide ("MAID")
Oregon
Washington
Montana
Vermont
California
Colorado
Washington D.C.
Hawai‘i
New Jersey
Maine
New Mexico
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from the
CATECHISM
of the CATHOLIC
CHURCH
I,3,I,1. on The Creed: Was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary. Question: “why did the Word become flesh?” [457: to save us; 458: so that we might know God’s love; 459: to be our model of holiness]
460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: (2 Pet 1:4) “For this is why the Word became man, [1265, 1391] and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” (St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1.939) “For the Son of God became man so that we might BECOME GOD.”(St. Athanasius, De inc., 54, 3: PG 25, 192B) [1988] “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might MAKE MEN GODS.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57: 1-4).
III,2,1: Grace and Justification: [on justification]:
1988 Through the power of the Holy Spirit we take part in Christ's Passion by dying to sin, and in his Resurrection by being born to a new life; we are members of his Body which is the Church, [654] branches grafted onto the vine which is himself:(Cf. 1 Cor 12; Jn 15:1-4)
[God] gave himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine [460] nature [...] For this reason, THOSE IN WHOM THE SPIRIT DWELLS ARE DIVINIZED.(St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1, 24: PG 26.585 & 588)
1999 The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the SANCTIFYING or DEIFYING grace received in Baptism. [1966] It is in us the source of the work of sanctification: (Cf. Jn 4:14; 7:38-39) Therefore if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself.(2 Cor 5:17-18).
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Coronation of the Virgin, Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. |
Questions for Part One
In Catholic theology the moral significance of an act includes not only the intended result, but also the effect on the person performing the act.
Does this make sense?
Can you apply this to the situation of someone receiving pain medication in the last days of life?
Questions for Part Two
Have you ever been faced with the decision to withdraw medical care (for example, to turn off a respirator) for a relative or loved one?
Have you or any of your relatives or loved ones completed an Advance Directive?
Questions for Part Three
Do you understand the difference between brain death and the persistent vegetative state?
Are you designated as an organ donor on your driver’s license?
Why, or why not?
Questions for Part Four
Have you ever known someone who wished to commit suicide?
What were their reasons for wanting to end their life, and how did you respond?
If you have never known anyone who contemplated suicide: have you ever had severe pain that lasted for a long time?
How effective was the treatment, and did you have the support of relatives and friends?
Questions for Part Five
Do you know a young person (under the age of 18) who wants to “transition,” that is, change their gender?
Do you believe they are fully informed as to the risks and consequences of this?
Questions for Part Four
Have you completed an advanced directive for health care?
Are you designated as an organ donor on your driver’s license?
Why, or why not?
Questions for Part Five
Have you been immunized for COVID?
Do you know someone who objects to being immunized? Do you know what their reasons are?
Questions for Part Five
Have you been immunized for COVID?
Do you know someone who objects to being immunized? Do you know what their reasons are?
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