Pope John Paul spoke today of the evils of euthanasia, using interesting new language. He described what he termed as distortion of ethics, namely the conversion of compassion into a “suppression of human life” through the desire to support it. It is not clear to me what the Pope meant, but his words were provocative:
Euthanasia is among the dramas of an ethic that presumes to establish who can live and who must die
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Labels: Catholicism, distortion of ethics, euthanasia, religion, the Pope