The pope met with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. They have been meeting the past few days for their plenary assembly, to discuss the theological basis of treating patients with severe or terminal illnesses.<\/p>\n
The pope spoke against valuing a person based on his or her efficiency or utility. He said this is losing sight of the infinite value of every person in any condition.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope said one of the Church's tasks is to teach people to care for those who suffer, in this case, the terminally ill.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> In his address, the pope said the Congregation is currently updating norms regarding crimes of abuse, so that procedures can be more effective.<\/p>\n This same department is responsible for judging the priests guilty of these terrible crimes.<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal\/ Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi January 30, 2020. He met with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and warned against the danger of considering gravely ill people \u201cunworthy\u201d of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WevpUuYX2Xo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bdottrinafedeeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bdottrinafedeint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn this situation of the loss of values, there is also the loss of the imperative duty of solidarity, and of human and Christian fraternity.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe relational, and not merely clinical, approach to the sick person\u2014to be considered in his or her uniqueness and wholeness\u2014imposes the responsibility to never abandon anyone in the presence of incurable illness.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslation: Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"