EWTN News reports (Nov. 26, 2025) that Slovenian voters rejected euthanasia legislation by 53.43% in a referendum, blocking a bill passed four months earlier by Parliament. The Slovenian Bishops’ Conference opposed the measure, citing Article 17 of Slovenia’s Constitution guaranteeing life’s inviolability. Archbishop Stanislav Zore welcomed the outcome as evidence of “God at work,” while conservative groups denounced euthanasia as undermining human dignity. The rejected bill would have permitted mentally competent terminally ill patients to self-administer life-ending drugs after approval by two doctors.
Constitutional Idolatry Replaces Divine Law
The Slovenian hierarchy’s opposition rests on shifting sand – constitutional provisions rather than immutable Catholic doctrine. While correctly invoking Article 17’s protection of life’s inviolability, the bishops substitute Lex naturalis (Natural Law) with legal positivism. Pius XII condemned this error: “The dignity of the human person… demands the absolute respect of the moral order established by God Himself” (Address to the International Union of Catholic Women’s Leagues, Sept. 11, 1947). By grounding arguments in constitutional texts rather than the Fifth Commandment and Casti Connubii‘s condemnation of life-destroying practices (Pius XI, 1930), the hierarchy commits the modernist error of adapting doctrine to secular frameworks.
Palliative Care Distraction Masks Spiritual Vacuum
The bishops’ call for “greater investment in palliative care” constitutes dangerous obfuscation. While palliative medicine serves temporal needs, it ignores the cura animarum (care of souls) – the Church’s primary mission. Nowhere do they mention:
The necessity of sacramental preparation for death through Penance and Extreme Unction
The redemptive value of suffering united to Christ’s Passion
Eternal consequences of despair leading to self-destruction
This silence exposes the post-conciliar church’s abandonment of Ars moriendi (Art of Dying) traditions. As St. Alphonsus Liguori warned: “At the hour of death, the devil does his utmost to make the sinner despair” (Preparation for Death, 1758). By reducing end-of-life care to medical and social services, the hierarchy facilitates the culture of death they claim to oppose.
European Apostasy Reveals Conciliar Rot
The article notes Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands permit physician-performed euthanasia – nations where post-conciliar churches actively collaborate with death regimes. Dutch “bishops” notoriously issued guidelines for “spiritual euthanasia accompaniment” in 2021. This demonstrates the logical conclusion of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes which declared: “Man… is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself” (GS 24). When man becomes his own telos, killing becomes “mercy.” Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns such relativism: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter” (Error 58).
Referendum Democracy Versus Divine Kingship
The celebration of democratic processes exposes the theological bankruptcy of conciliar Catholicism. Christ reigns as Rex Regum (King of Kings), yet the bishops reduce His sovereignty to ballot outcomes. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) establishes:
“Rulers of states… have the duty of imparting to their people… the teaching of the Church by professing Christ… the King of kings”
That 46.57% voted for state-sanctioned murder proves democracy’s inability to protect natural law. The hierarchy’s failure to demand Slovenia’s submission to Christ’s social reign makes them complicit in the culture of death. As St. Pius X warned: “The modern state tends to substitute itself for God… to make itself God” (Letter on the Sillon, Aug. 25, 1910).
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Slovenia rejects euthanasia law in referendum, freezes issue for at least a year (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.11.2025