As Cardinal Mercier said : "When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere."                                                                                  From Cardinal Sarah : "In order to avoid hearing God's music, we have chosen to use all the devices of this world. But heaven's instruments will not stop playing just because some people are deaf."                                                                                              Saint John-Paul II wrote: "The fact that one can die for the faith shows that other demands of the faith can also be met."                                                 Cardinal Müller says, “For the real danger to today’s humanity is the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief and the decay of morality when no one knows and teaches the difference between good and evil.”                                                  St Catherine of Siena said, “We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.”                                                  Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”                                                Brethren, Wake up!

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION - AN ETHICAL BATTLE


Only very rarely does this Blog venture into fields outside the immediate life of the Order of Saint John, and that only where there are matters directly concerning ethics and morals, where our duty of Tuitio Fidei requires a reaction.

One such arises now, an international proposal to remove in most cases the right to conscientious objection on the part of medical practitioners, (this is, as in the Great War, almost always concerned with killing people.)

The text concerned reads:

Physicians have an ethical obligation to minimize interruptions in patient care. Conscientious objection should only be considered if the individual patient is not discriminated against or disadvantaged, the patient's health is not in jeopardy, and continuity of care without delay is ensured through effective and timely referral to another qualified physician."

In other words, conscientious objection would be limited:
* If it is considered that not performing an abortion is discrimination, it would be outside the Ethical Code. 
* If it is considered that not performing an abortion is an attack on health understood as the state of well-being.
* An objector is obliged to refer his patient to another practitioner who does not object, in other words, collaborate with what he objects to.
The burden of proof will be shifted on to the medical practitioner to justify his objection.

Please look at the information at the link HERE, and we encourage you to sign the PETITION if you feel this within your moral compass.

Finally, please pray that this advancing onslaught of evil, which threatens every ethical base in all walks of our life and even in the Church, whose Holy Motherhood some would seek to corrupt, may be crushed by the prayers of the saints. We suggest you invoke Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, newly canonised, pediatrician, and patroness of mothers and unborn children.

Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum!

Beata Maria de Phileremo, ora pro nobis
Sancta Gianna Beretta Molla, or pro nobis