{"id":7300,"date":"2017-08-19T17:11:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T00:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:06:41","slug":"pope-demands-that-belgian-catholic-hospitals-stop-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7300","title":{"rendered":"Pope demands that Belgian Catholic hospitals stop euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BioEdge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Michael Cook<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year a group of Catholic hospitals and clinics for the mentally ill in Belgium announced that it would allow doctors to perform euthanasia on its premises. The group is linked to a religious order, the Brothers of Charity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.va\/en\/news\/pope-orders-belgian-brothers-of-charity-to-stop-of\"> Pope Francis issued an ultimatum<\/a>: this must stop by the end of August. He also ordered the three Brothers who serve on the 15-member board to sign a letter stating that \u00a0they &#8220;fully support the vision of the magisterium of the Catholic Church, which has always confirmed that human life must be respected and protected in absolute terms, from the moment of conception till its natural end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the board refuses, the hospitals could lose their affiliation with the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>One of the board members is Herman Van Rompuy, a former President of the European Council and Belgian Prime Minister. He <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/global-church\/2017\/08\/14\/former-belgian-pm-challenges-pope-francis-euthanasia-ban-religious-hospitals\/\"> tweeted<\/a> that &#8220;The time of \u2018Roma locuta causa finita&#8217; is long past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brother Ren\u00e9 Stockman, the head of the Brothers of Charity, is a Belgian but opposes the stand taken by the local members of his own order. He commented: &#8220;The central point and the foundation within Christian ethics is that life is absolute, which cannot be touched. Life is a gift from God and entails an assignment. And because life is absolute, it is a state worthy of protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Belgian group acknowledged that it had received a letter from the Vatican but said that it had not yet responded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5805\" src=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cclicense-some-rights.jpg\" alt=\"Pope demands that Belgian Catholic hospitals stop euthanasia\" width=\"110\" height=\"39\" \/>This article was published by Michael Cook and BioEdge under a Creative Commons licence. 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