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(Isa 5:20) Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
NEWS: Illinois Senate passes bill to legalize medical assistance in dying
NCR: Uruguay Legalizes Euthanasia
REPORT: Canada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth
LIFESITE: Bishop Paprocki denounces passage of Illinois pro-euthanasia bill
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois has denounced the passage of a pro-euthanasia bill by the state’s Senate earlier this week.
In a blistering critique of SB 1950, Bishop Paprocki rebuked not only the manner in which the legislation was approved but the attack it launches on human dignity.
“It is quite fitting that the forces of the culture of death in the Illinois General Assembly passed physician-assisted suicide on October 31 —a day that, culturally, has become synonymous with glorifying death and evil,” Paprocki noted in his statement. “It’s also ironic that these pro-death legislators did it under the cloud of darkness at 2:54 a.m.” According to CatholicVote.org, the bill also requires the patient to make the request to end their life both verbally and in writing and to repeat their request verbally at least five days after their first request. Other guidelines are put into place purportedly to ensure that the request is made with full knowledge and consent.
The Catholic Church teaches that suicide or the intentional ending of one’s own life is gravely evil as man is not the author of his own life. “Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 2324) affirms.
Paprocki defended the Church’s magisterium later in his statement.
“Make no mistake: killing oneself is not dying with dignity. Doctors take an oath to do no harm. Now, they can prescribe death,” he said.
“There are documented cases of patients being denied treatment and instead offered life-ending drugs. Individuals could also be coerced into taking the lethal drug. Physician assisted suicide undermines the value of each person, especially the vulnerable, the poor, and those with disabilities.” Paprocki also called on Catholics to pray for Pritzker to veto the legislation. “Illinois should be a state that offers compassion, care, and hope—not death—as the answer to human suffering,” he said.
EDITORIAL: USF professor argues case against physician-assisted suicide
CNA: ‘Don’t kill me’: Empty wheelchairs dramatize campaign against assisted suicide in Italy
EXCERPT SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH: Declaration on Euthanasia (1990)
Human life is the basis of all goods, and is the necessary source and condition of every human activity and of all society. Most people regard life as something sacred and hold that no one may dispose of it at will, but believers see in life something greater, namely, a gift of God's love, which they are called upon to preserve and make fruitful. And it is this latter consideration that gives rise to the following consequences:
1. No one can make an attempt on the life of an innocent person without opposing God's love for that person, without violating a fundamental right, and therefore without committing a crime of the utmost gravity.[4]
2. Everyone has the duty to lead his or her life in accordance with God's plan. That life is entrusted to the individual as a good that must bear fruit already here on earth, but that finds its full perfection only in eternal life.
3. Intentionally causing one's own death, or suicide, is therefore equally as wrong as murder; such an action on the part of a person is to be considered as a rejection of God's sovereignty and loving plan. Furthermore, suicide is also often a refusal of love for self, the denial of a natural instinct to live, a flight from the duties of justice and charity owed to one's neighbor, to various communities or to the whole of society - although, as is generally recognized, at times there are psychological factors present that can diminish responsibility or even completely remove it. However, one must clearly distinguish suicide from that sacrifice of one's life whereby for a higher cause, such as God's glory, the salvation of souls or the service of one's brethren, a person offers his or her own life or puts it in danger (cf. Jn. 15:14).
CARDINAL SARAH: "Euthanasia is the most acute indication of a Godless, subhuman society that has lost hope."
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November 10, 2025(Isa 5:20) Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
NEWS: Illinois Senate passes bill to legalize medical assistance in dying
NCR: Uruguay Legalizes Euthanasia
REPORT: Canada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth
LIFESITE: Bishop Paprocki denounces passage of Illinois pro-euthanasia bill
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois has denounced the passage of a pro-euthanasia bill by the state’s Senate earlier this week.
In a blistering critique of SB 1950, Bishop Paprocki rebuked not only the manner in which the legislation was approved but the attack it launches on human dignity.
“It is quite fitting that the forces of the culture of death in the Illinois General Assembly passed physician-assisted suicide on October 31 —a day that, culturally, has become synonymous with glorifying death and evil,” Paprocki noted in his statement. “It’s also ironic that these pro-death legislators did it under the cloud of darkness at 2:54 a.m.” According to CatholicVote.org, the bill also requires the patient to make the request to end their life both verbally and in writing and to repeat their request verbally at least five days after their first request. Other guidelines are put into place purportedly to ensure that the request is made with full knowledge and consent.
The Catholic Church teaches that suicide or the intentional ending of one’s own life is gravely evil as man is not the author of his own life. “Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 2324) affirms.
Paprocki defended the Church’s magisterium later in his statement.
“Make no mistake: killing oneself is not dying with dignity. Doctors take an oath to do no harm. Now, they can prescribe death,” he said.
“There are documented cases of patients being denied treatment and instead offered life-ending drugs. Individuals could also be coerced into taking the lethal drug. Physician assisted suicide undermines the value of each person, especially the vulnerable, the poor, and those with disabilities.” Paprocki also called on Catholics to pray for Pritzker to veto the legislation. “Illinois should be a state that offers compassion, care, and hope—not death—as the answer to human suffering,” he said.
EDITORIAL: USF professor argues case against physician-assisted suicide
CNA: ‘Don’t kill me’: Empty wheelchairs dramatize campaign against assisted suicide in Italy
EXCERPT SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH: Declaration on Euthanasia (1990)
Human life is the basis of all goods, and is the necessary source and condition of every human activity and of all society. Most people regard life as something sacred and hold that no one may dispose of it at will, but believers see in life something greater, namely, a gift of God's love, which they are called upon to preserve and make fruitful. And it is this latter consideration that gives rise to the following consequences:
1. No one can make an attempt on the life of an innocent person without opposing God's love for that person, without violating a fundamental right, and therefore without committing a crime of the utmost gravity.[4]
2. Everyone has the duty to lead his or her life in accordance with God's plan. That life is entrusted to the individual as a good that must bear fruit already here on earth, but that finds its full perfection only in eternal life.
3. Intentionally causing one's own death, or suicide, is therefore equally as wrong as murder; such an action on the part of a person is to be considered as a rejection of God's sovereignty and loving plan. Furthermore, suicide is also often a refusal of love for self, the denial of a natural instinct to live, a flight from the duties of justice and charity owed to one's neighbor, to various communities or to the whole of society - although, as is generally recognized, at times there are psychological factors present that can diminish responsibility or even completely remove it. However, one must clearly distinguish suicide from that sacrifice of one's life whereby for a higher cause, such as God's glory, the salvation of souls or the service of one's brethren, a person offers his or her own life or puts it in danger (cf. Jn. 15:14).
CARDINAL SARAH: "Euthanasia is the most acute indication of a Godless, subhuman society that has lost hope."
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