Catholic News Agency reports that New York Governor Kathy Hochul will sign an assisted suicide bill into law, making New York the 13th U.S. jurisdiction to permit this practice. The article notes Hochul’s claim about adding unspecified “guardrails,” while quoting her emotional justification referencing her mother’s death from ALS. New York “cardinal” Timothy Dolan and other conciliar sect officials expressed opposition, calling it a “grave moral evil” conflicting with their version of “Catholic teaching.” The Patients’ Rights Action Fund raised concerns about abuse potential, while both the conciliar officials and disability advocates urged greater investment in palliative care. This legislative development exemplifies the terminal decay of civil authority severed from Christ the King.
Naturalism’s Triumph Over Divine Law
Governor Hochul’s declaration that assisted suicide extends “freedom” to “terminally ill New Yorkers” constitutes explicit rebellion against the First Commandment. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The governor’s appeal to personal autonomy (“on their own terms”) embodies the condemned proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 15).
The very term “assisted suicide” constitutes linguistic fraud, masking what theologians properly term homicidium voluntarium (voluntary homicide). St. Thomas Aquinas explicitly condemns suicide as contrary to natural law and divine dominion over life: “To bring death upon oneself in order to escape the other evils of this life is to adopt a greater evil in place of a lesser” (Summa Theologiae II-II, q.64, a.5). Hochul’s claim about “shortening their deaths” rather than lives constitutes semantic trickery condemned by Pius XII: “No one is permitted to ask for this act of killing…nor can any authority legitimately permit it” (Address to International Congress of Anesthesiologists, 1957).
Modernist Betrayal Masquerading as Opposition
The conciliar sect’s officials prove their theological bankruptcy through invertebrate opposition. Mr. Dolan’s statement calling the law “extraordinarily troubling” while lamenting government “abandonment” of the vulnerable constitutes moral cowardice. True Catholic shepherds would thunder like St. Ambrose: “Non tamquam medico, sed tamquam iudici venit imperator” (“The emperor comes not as a physician but as a judge” – Epistle 40).
These conciliar clerics commit four fatal errors in their “opposition”:
“This new law signals our government’s abandonment of its most vulnerable citizens, telling people who are sick or disabled that suicide in their case is not only acceptable but is encouraged by our elected leaders.”
1. Silence on Mortal Sin: They omit that suicide damns souls to eternal perdition, as the Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny the “deadly nature of mortal sin” (Session VI, Canon 15).
2. False Equivalence: Their question – “How can any society have credibility to tell young people…that suicide is never the answer?” – implies suicide prevention programs possess equal weight with divine law.
3. Naturalistic Reduction: By emphasizing palliative care without mention of sacraments, they reduce dying to medical management rather than supernatural preparation.
4. Impotent Protest: Having long tolerated abortion and contraception, their sudden opposition rings hollow. As Leo XIII warned: “When the State refuses to give due honor to God…the State must necessarily suffer” (Immortale Dei).
Satanic Subversion Through “Safeguards”
Hochul’s proposed “amendments” – waiting periods, oral requests, health evaluations – constitute diabolical theater. The article notes disability advocates’ warning that Washington’s law enabled mentally ill Eileen Mihich’s death. This confirms Pius XII’s insight that legalized killing inevitably expands: “The temptation to solve the problem of suffering by eliminating the sufferer becomes increasingly attractive” (Address to Catholic Doctors, 1957).
The conciliar sect’s palliative care advocacy, while correct in principle, becomes complicit in evil by not demanding outright repeal. As St. Augustine teaches: “Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia?” (“Without justice, what are kingdoms but great banditries?” – City of God IV.4). No healthcare initiative justifies coexistence with state-sanctioned murder.
The True Catholic Response
Authentic Roman Catholicism requires uncompromising resistance:
1. Excommunication Latae Sententiae: All legislators supporting this law incur automatic excommunication under Canon 2330 of the 1917 Code for “favoring abortion or euthanasia.”
2. Civil Disobedience: Medical professionals must refuse participation, following the Apostles: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
3. Reparation: Public processions of the Most Blessed Sacrament to atone for this blasphemy against God’s dominion over life and death.
Governor Hochul’s appeal to her Catholic education (CUA alumna) compounds her guilt. As the Holy Office decreed: “Catholics who promote laws favoring euthanasia incur excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See” (Declaration on Euthanasia, 1980). Until civil authorities acknowledge Christ’s kingship, such abominations will multiply. The only remedy is restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King through consecration of states to His Sacred Heart and Marian reparative devotion.
Source:
Catholic bishops speak out as New York governor pledges to pass assisted suicide bill (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.12.2025