{"id":7670,"date":"2004-03-19T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/word_from_rome_18.html"},"modified":"2004-03-19T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:32:38","slug":"word_from_rome_18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/word_from_rome_18.html","title":{"rendered":"Word from Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

New one’s up<\/a><\/p>\n

Caveziel chats with reporters:<\/p>\n

Caviezel said that he sees Christ\u2019s message as a balance between grace and truth, while in American Catholicism the accent is often on grace alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have just grace, which we have a lot in the Catholic church in the United States, that means we have a \u2018happy Jesus,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cYou see him without any nails in his hand, no more suffering. Sleep with Suzy on Friday, Catherine on Saturday, go to church on Sunday, and the blood washes it all. You wouldn\u2019t do this to your best friend, so why would you do it to your Lord and Savior?\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the obvious sincerity of his Catholicism, Caviezel said he resents the way the press fastens on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to be Catholic,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m also an actor. They write, \u2018devout Catholic Jim Caviezel.\u2019 Fine, but that\u2019s not how they speak about other artists. They don\u2019t say, \u2018devout Scientologist Tom Cruise,\u2019 or \u2018devout Jewish man who speaks about his Jewish faith Adam Sandler.\u2019 They\u2019re not consistent. For me, they say \u2018religious zealot.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That conference on the vegetative state:<\/p>\n

Fr. Norman Ford from the Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics in Melbourne, Australia, sparked debate by arguing in favor of withdrawal of care under some circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cFailure to give due regard to the clinical reality of permanently unconscious patients shows a lack of respect for them,\u201d Ford said. \u201cThe patient should not be subjected to the ontological indignity of being sustained by medically assisted nutrition and hydration for years of unconscious life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fr. Gerald Gleeson of the Catholic Institute of Sydney, Australia, agreed that food and water can be removed if it becomes \u201cfutile, burdensome, not beneficial to patient, and is prolonging death.\u201d<\/p>\n

These arguments were challenged by other participants.<\/p>\n

A French physician who works with persistently unresponsive patients challenged Ford, asking how he knows that these patients don\u2019t feel pain. In any event, she asked, why starve people to death over two weeks? If the aim is to end their life, why not be honest and simply put them to death by lethal injection? In other words, why not admit that what you\u2019re really talking about is euthanasia? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, a link to an interview ith Pell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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