Vatican reiterates the need to provide food and water    

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Bishop Foys edict - Avoid confusion????

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Sept. 14^th – Vatican reaffirms Pope John Paul II teaching on the need for food and water for comatose patients

On Sept. 14, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith affirmed the moral obligation to provide food and water to patients in a persistent vegetative state. The Congregation’s document reiterates and further clarifies, what Pope John Paul II said in his allocution of March 2004.

            “…the administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act. Its use, furthermore, should be considered, in principle, ordinary and proportionate, and as such morally obligatory…”              (Pope John Paul II)

When will Bishop Foys adhere to Papal teaching and bring St. Elizabeth Hospital into compliance with the Vatican ?

As you can see from the links below Bishop Foys is not the only Bishop or Catholic institution not complying with Papal teaching. The Catholic Conference of Kentucky – the four Bishops of Kentucky – not only displays the current euthanasia legislation Living Will Directive and Health Care Surrogate Designation featured in Kentucky law on their website, but they have ignored Papal teaching as well.  

THE CCK STATES:

“This Advance Directive is acceptable for Catholics and conforms with Kentucky’s law…The Catholic Conference of Kentucky reaffirms the Church’s belief in the value of human life and the respect due to each individual person.”  

THE ADVANCE DIRECTIVE PROMOTED BY THE CCK AUTHORIZES THE WITHDRAWAL OF FOOD AND HYDRATION FROM NON-DYING PATIENTS.  

Of course the CCK not only help push this designer death legislation into law years ago, despite the opposition of pro-life groups throughout the State, but they applauded In 2004 the Kentucky Supreme Court decision (WOODS V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY).  In that decision, the Court held that the State of Kentucky , as guardian, could withdraw food and hydration from a mentally retarded man, who was the ward of the State, and who was not in fact dying.  

Weblinks: St. Elizabeth Hospital -  http://www.stelizabeth.com/patientsvisitors/patients/advance/index.asp  http://www.stelizabeth.com/patientsvisitors/patients/advance/advancedirective.pdf

Catholic Conference of  Kentucky: http://ccky.org/Pastoral%20Resources/CCK%20Revised%20Kentucky%20Advance%20Directives%20Document.pdf http://ccky.org/Press%20Releases/2004/2004%2008%20Ky%20Supreme%20Court%20Decision%20on%20Surrogate.pdf

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The use of abortifacient drugs at Catholic Hospitals

As most know Bishop Foys and the Catholic Bishops of Kentucky have approved as morally acceptable the distribution of so called ‘Emergency Contraceptive’ (EC) drugs—drugs that also function as abortifacients—in Catholic hospitals. (See Bishop Foys Documents in this website). Here is Judy Brown’s, American Life League, response to a question about the use of these abortifacient drugs in Catholic hospitals. As well as a recent commentary by Fr. Tom Euteneuer, President of Human Life International, criticizing the Bishops of Connecticut for caving into the State pressure in giving out the ‘EC” in Catholic hospitals.  

When will Bishop Foys stop allowing the death of innocent children at the Catholic institutions in his care?  

American Life League - Judy Brown                                               

HLI - Fr. Tom Euteneuer - http://www.hli.org/sl_2007-10-05.html

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Bishop Foys' edict - Avoid Confusion?  

When Bishop Foys ordered his priests not to associate with NKRTL his reasoning was that he wanted to avoid any confusion between NKRTL and the Church. Yet, the Diocese of Covington while refusing to allow NKRTL to collect names for its annual newspaper ad has decided to steal the project and make the project its own. Shamefully, many churches are not telling their parishioners that they are collecting names for a diocesan ad rather than the NKRTL newspaper ad that people have signed up for decades. So  is the Bishop avoiding confusion or blurring the lines and using the confusion?  Since “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, one could only hope that Bishop Foys would steal NKRTL’s non-comprising principles and stop allowing euthanasia and the distribution of abortifacient drugs at Catholic institutions under his charge.   

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