Swiss bishop: no last rites for those seeking assisted suicide

[_Abyssinia]

The number of euthanasia deaths in Switzerland rose by a third last year

A Swiss bishop has instructed Catholic priests not to give last rites to people suspected of seeking assisted suicide, following a sharp rise in the practice in his country.

“It is increasingly difficult to take the right decisions in the face of death – there’s even a sense of helplessness,” said Bishop Vitus Huonder of Chur.

catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/12/08/swiss-bishop-no-last-rites-for-those-seeking-assisted-suicide/

 

[zz912]

This seems like common sense. You can’t receive absolution for a sin you still intend to commit. You are NOT expressing contrition nor a resolve to not commit sins in the future. You are INTENDING to commit sin. That’s not how confession and forgiveness of sins works.

 

[MaryT777]

This seems like common sense. You can’t receive absolution for a sin you still intend to commit. You are NOT expressing contrition nor a resolve to not commit sins in the future. You are INTENDING to commit sin. That’s not how confession and forgiveness of sins works.

I agree, unless they change the entire paradigm of not intending to commit sin operates I don’t see how it can work to obtain forgiveness for future actions.

Mary.

 

[twf]

Yet the polar opposite of what the Bishops of Atlantic Canada are proposing. It seems that this issue, like communion for the divorced and remarried, is starting to divide the episcopate…

 

[carn]

Yet the polar opposite of what the Bishops of Atlantic Canada are proposing. It seems that this issue, like communion for the divorced and remarried, is starting to divide the episcopate…

In my opinion the division is caused in the end by the law of non-contradiction and that some see upholding laws as important while others see laws at best as a guideline but not that important.

 

[Ruthmary]

In my opinion the division is caused in the end by the law of non-contradiction and that some see upholding laws as important while others see laws at best as a guideline but not that important.

That is the heart of the matter.

 

[abucs]

I hear the church is toying with the idea of premature absolution for efficiency sake.

Apparently if you go on a Tuesday to confession you receive a good for 5 sins absolution. If you’ve only sinned twice that week you get premature forgiveness for 3 extra ones in the following week.

Who says the church can’t be progressive?

 

[carn]

I hear the church is toying with the idea of premature absolution for efficiency sake.

Apparently if you go on a Tuesday to confession you receive a good for 5 sins absolution. If you’ve only sinned twice that week you get premature forgiveness for 3 extra ones in the following week.

Who says the church can’t be progressive?

Can that somehow be developed also for “ecology” sins? Just like one has calculators for calculating which amount of money to which organisation offsets which amount of CO2, so that one can fly into holidays in good conscience, so-and-so many rosaries per Ton of CO2.

 

[abucs]

Can that somehow be developed also for “ecology” sins? Just like one has calculators for calculating which amount of money to which organisation offsets which amount of CO2, so that one can fly into holidays in good conscience, so-and-so many rosaries per Ton of CO2.

I think you may have just created a new market Carn.

Carns Conscious Carbon Credits maybe?

 

[EIF5A]

I hear the church is toying with the idea of premature absolution for efficiency sake.

Apparently if you go on a Tuesday to confession you receive a good for 5 sins absolution. If you’ve only sinned twice that week you get premature forgiveness for 3 extra ones in the following week.

Who says the church can’t be progressive?

I’m not sure if this is a joke or not…

 

[SuperLuigi]

I hear the church is toying with the idea of premature absolution for efficiency sake.

Apparently if you go on a Tuesday to confession you receive a good for 5 sins absolution. If you’ve only sinned twice that week you get premature forgiveness for 3 extra ones in the following week.

Who says the church can’t be progressive?

The Church is not toying with this idea. I suspect that this comment more accurately refers to rogue elements?

 

[cjb_914]

The Church is not toying with this idea. I suspect that this comment more accurately refers to rogue elements?

I think that comment more accurately has recourse to sarcasm. But honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if this happened to actually be discussed.

 

[Lost_Sheep]

I hear the church is toying with the idea of premature absolution for efficiency sake.

Apparently if you go on a Tuesday to confession you receive a good for 5 sins absolution. If you’ve only sinned twice that week you get premature forgiveness for 3 extra ones in the following week.

[sarcasm=ON] If this is true, I intend to take full advantage of it! [sarcasm=OFF]

 

[goout]

I hear the church is toying with the idea of premature absolution for efficiency sake.

Apparently if you go on a Tuesday to confession you receive a good for 5 sins absolution. If you’ve only sinned twice that week you get premature forgiveness for 3 extra ones in the following week.

Who says the church can’t be progressive?

I would be laughing my teeth out if this weren’t the logical dead end of this kind of vacuous thinking.