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Pull the plug on Alfie: the State as the
Agent of Death
Pull the Plug!
A Vignette on the State as the Agent of Death
Britain decides
whether your life is worth living — and no Parent can keep its Hand off the
Plug
(and don’t count on your cardinal or bishop either)

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Archbishop
Malcolm McMahon OP, Archbishop of Liverpool
on behalf of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and
Wales — with their hands on the plug, too: (
... all “Catholics”)
“I
would like to express my deepest sympathy at
this moment of loss to Tom and Kate as we hold little
Alfie in our prayers. All who have been touched
by the story of this little boy’s heroic struggle
for life will feel this loss deeply. But as a Christian
Alfie has the promises of God, who is love, to welcome
him into his heavenly home.”
— even though we didn't so much as lift a finger
to help him, his mother or his father. The official
Vatican News Agency stated the following: “The
Catholic bishops of England and Wales issue a statement
highlighting the professionalism of staff at Liverpool's
Alder Hey hospital.”
(We wonder if their admiration for the
“professionalism” of those who collectively end
the lives of others, extends to other
relatively recent, and present regimes which
excelled in it — beyond our darkest imagination)
* Pope Francis: Act for another’s good — as you
see it — not as God sees it ... nor as the Church teaches:
“Although
the past few weeks have been difficult with much
activity on social media, we must recognise that
all who have played a part in
Alfie’s
life
have wanted
to act for his good,
as they
see it.
Above all, we must thank Tom and Kate for their
unstinting love of their son,
and the staff at
Alder Hey Hospital for their professional care of
Alfie.”
(Yes, the pope is presumed to be Catholic).
In other words, depending on how you look at it
(more of the situational ethics of Francis),
“if you think it is good to pull the plug
on a child for some insane reason — go for it!
Who am I to say?”
In
other words, no plea for Alfie,
his mother or his father, from “prominent
Catholics” ... only from
a
prominent Muslim
... on behalf of a Christian:

Listen to Wajid Khan address the EU Parliament

“You have collected all my tears in Your bottle.
You have recorded each one in Your book.”
(Ps. 56.8)
A Frightening Prologue
We
are witnessing the death — not only of Alfie Evans — but of Western Christian
culture; of the collective and seared conscience of the tattered remnants of a
once Christian, but now militantly secularized society that has no tolerance for
religion ... and even less for life itself.
This is the frightening
prologue of things to come — and from a once enlightened people who fell into
darkness.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
editor@boston-catholic-journal.com
May 03, 2018
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