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“The Church believes that it must reiterate as a definitive doctrine that euthanasia is a crime against human life because, with this act, man chooses to directly cause the death of another innocent human being.” This was stated by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Letter “Samaritanus bonus”. “Those who pass laws on euthanasia and assisted suicide – he adds – thus become accomplices of the grave sin that others will commit. They are also guilty of scandal because these laws contribute to distort the conscience, even of the faithful.”
Euthanasia, explains the ancient Holy Office, “is an inherently evil act, on any occasion or circumstance.” “This doctrine is founded on natural law and on the written Word of God, it is transmitted by the Tradition of the Church and taught by the ordinary and universal Magisterium,” he reiterates, and “any immediate formal or material cooperation in such an act is a grave sin against human life “. Therefore, euthanasia is a murderous act that can endlessly legitimize and that does not tolerate any form of complicity or collaboration, active or passive ”, he adds.
“Incurable does not mean incurable” – “Incurable is never synonymous with ‘incurable'”. This is the concept placed on the premise of the document “Samaritanus bonus. Letter on the care of people in the critical and terminal phases of life”, approved by the Pope on June 25 and published today, with which the Congregation Vatican for the Doctrine of the Faith – before legislative initiatives in various countries on the matter – reaffirms the doctrinal and magisterial principles against euthanasia and assisted suicide, considering that “the inviolable value of life is a basic truth of the moral law natural and essential foundation of the legal order “. According to the ancient Holy Office, an obstacle “that obscures the perception of the sacredness of human life is an erroneous understanding of ‘compassion’. Faced with suffering described as ‘unbearable’, the end of the patient’s life is justified in the name In order not to suffer it is better to die: it is the so-called ‘compassionate’ euthanasia. It would be compassionate to help the patient die by euthanasia or assisted suicide. In reality, human compassion does not consist in causing death, but in welcoming the sick, in supporting him in his difficulties, in offering him affection, care and the means to alleviate his suffering. ”Thus,“ the Church, in the mission of transmitting to the faithful the grace of the Redeemer and the holy law of God, already perceptible in the dictates of the natural moral law, feels the duty to intervene in this forum to exclude once again any ambiguity about the teaching of the Magisterium on euthanasia and assisted suicide, even in those contexts where national laws they have legitimized such practices ”.
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