Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
Interpretation
Euthanasia is viewed as morally wrong and against divine law because it involves intentionally ending a life.
In this quote, Pope John Paul II emphasizes the sanctity of human life, asserting that euthanasia not only contravenes divine commandments but also represents a deliberate act of killing that is ethically indefensible. He frames the issue within a moral and theological context, arguing that every human life is sacred and must be valued, regardless of circumstances, reflecting a core belief in the dignity of human existence.
In practice
In a discussion about end-of-life ethics at a medical conference.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
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