Scotland's First Minister, like Church, is not convinced by assisted suicide

[lizardley]

Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish National Party leader and First Minister, says she sees same pitfalls in assisted suicide as the Catholic Church and opposition groups, and would also like to have abortion regulation devolved to Scottish Parliament, in an exclusive interview with Scotland’s national Catholic newspaper, picked up by mainstream press today.

Reports

Original: sconews.co.uk/latest-edition/43911/first-minister-is-not-convinced-by-assisted-suicide/

Others
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-31758711
scotsman.com/news/health/assisted-suicide-bill-nicola-sturgeon-unconvinced-1-3710952
heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/sturgeon-questions-suicide-bill.120038508
thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/nicola-sturgeon-questions-suicide-bill-1.847325

 

[Johann_du_Toit]

I would like to see how Ms Sturgeon governs before I take her word on something. The
SNP is a very left-wing party that supports a lot of positions that are inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#Party_ideology

 

[Ignatius]

I would like to see how Ms Sturgeon governs before I take her word on something. The
SNP is a very left-wing party that supports a lot of positions that are inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#Party_ideology

 

[weller2]

The SNP is a very left-wing party that supports a lot of positions that are inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church:

…such as?

 

[Johann_du_Toit]

…such as?

Same Sex Marriage. They are to the left of Labour on social issues (even with Ed Miliband at the helm).

Plus I am not convinced ethnic Nationalism is reconcilable with Catholicsm. St Josemaria Escriva advised against Nationalism and said Catholics should be patriotic instead.

 

[CatholicWhovian]

Plus I am not convinced ethnic Nationalism is reconcilable with Catholicsm. St Josemaria Escriva advised against Nationalism and said Catholics should be patriotic instead.

But how does that repudiate claims that St. Escriva was involved in the Franco regime in Spain? Are those claims even true? I’m not criticizing St. Escriva by asking these questions, I just want to clarify.

 

[Johann_du_Toit]

But how does that repudiate claims that St. Escriva was involved in the Franco regime in Spain? Are those claims even true? I’m not criticizing St. Escriva by asking these questions, I just want to clarify.

The obvious answer to that was the Spanish Republican government in power in the 1930’s was rabidly anticlerical and anti-Catholic, Churches were burned and looted and thousands of priests, monks and nuns killed by the Republican forces. Opus Dei and the Catholic Church as a whole supported Franco as a matter of survival which support was not an endorsement of all his views.

Escriva himself rejected racism, antisemitism and ethnic nationalism and always advocated Opus Dei as open to Catholics of all races and ethnic backgrounds. He declined to establish an Opus Dei branch in South Africa during his lifetime because Apartheid would have required racially segregated branches for this reason.