The NC Register/CNA reports on a new database by Aging with Dignity, revealing that at least 14,446 Americans have died by assisted suicide since 1997, with the real number likely higher due to incomplete state reporting. The report highlights ignored safeguards, complications from drugs, and the use of assisted suicide for non-terminal conditions like lupus and diabetes. Jamie Towey of Aging with Dignity warns that “the vulnerable are in danger” and that “safeguards like psychiatric screenings are ignored.” Matt Vallière of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund states the data shows “how little care is taken when assisted suicide becomes public policy” and that it grows “unchecked.” The article frames the issue as a failure of policy enforcement and transparency within a legalized framework.
This reporting, while documenting a horrific social reality, remains fundamentally blind to the *theological* root of the evil it describes. It treats assisted suicide as a mere policy failure within a secular state, ignoring that its legalization is the direct consequence of the apostasy of the post-conciliar “Church” and the rejection of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The article’s entire premise—that the problem is insufficient “safeguards” and “transparency”—is a naturalistic, Modernist distraction from the mortal sin of murder and the blasphemous denial that human life belongs solely to God.
The Naturalistic Heresy: Reducing a Mortal Sin to a Policy Defect
The article operates entirely within the sphere of *sociological data and political advocacy*. It laments “laxity of state enforcement,” “missing forms,” and “explosions” in the “other” diagnostic category. This focus on procedural failures, while factually correct, accepts the foundational Modernist error that moral law is a human construct subject to “safeguards” and “public policy.” This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, which denounces the notion that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56) and that “the science of philosophical things and morals… may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority” (Error 57). The article never states the immutable Catholic truth: assisted suicide is intrinsically evil, a direct violation of the Fifth Commandment, and any law permitting it is a null and violent usurpation of God’s sole dominion over life and death. Its silence on the supernatural sin and the damnation of those who procure or administer it is the gravest accusation.
The Omission of Christ the King: The Syllabus Condemned This Secularism
The entire analysis is void of the only solution proposed by the pre-conciliar Magisterium: the public and social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas on the Feast of Christ the King, directly addressed the secularism that produces such laws:
“When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
The article mentions “Canada’s lead” and the “normalization” of suicide as healthcare, but it never connects this to the systematic dethronement of Christ by the conciliar sect. It quotes secular advocates and “research associates” but not the prophetic voice of the Church, which alone can declare that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas), and that this harmony is impossible without Christ’s law. The omission of any call for the conversion of nations and the explicit submission of civil law to the Ten Commandments is a capitulation to the very secularism Pius XI called “the plague that poisons human society.”
The “Vulnerable” Discourse: A Naturalistic Substitute for the Theology of Suffering
The article parrots the modern mantra of protecting the “vulnerable.” This language, devoid of Catholic supernatural content, is a tool of the culture of death. It implies that suffering is an absolute evil to be avoided at all costs, directly contradicting the Catholic doctrine of redemptive suffering so clearly taught before the conciliar revolution. Quas Primas states that the Kingdom of Christ “requires its followers not only to renounce earthly riches and possessions, to be distinguished by modesty of conduct, and to hunger and thirst for justice, but also to deny themselves and carry their cross.” The article’s framework has no place for the cross. It reduces the “vulnerable” to a sociological category to be managed by state regulations, rather than souls to be evangelized and accompanied with the hope of eternal life. This is the logical outcome of the “hermeneutic of discontinuity” that emptied the Church’s mission of its supernatural purpose.
The Conciliar Sect’s Complicity: The Silent Apostasy
The database exposes the failure of “safeguards” in states that have legalized murder. Yet, the article fails to ask the crucial question: Why have Catholic politicians and even “Catholic” institutions in these states not excommunicated or publicly condemned by their “bishops”? The answer lies in the apostasy of the post-1958 hierarchy. The “Church of the New Advent” has embraced the errors of the Syllabus: it accepts religious freedom (Error 15), the separation of Church and State (Error 55), and the subordination of the Church to secular power (Errors 19-44). The “shepherds” of this conciliar sect are complicit by their silence and their own promotion of a “dignity” divorced from God. The article’s call for “lawmakers” to be informed is naive. As Pius IX thundered in the Syllabus, the civil power has no right to legislate on such matters; its duty is to recognize the “solemn conventions” (concordats) with the Church and to defend the “immunity of the Church” (Errors 43, 30). The current “authorities” in Rome have abandoned this fight, having themselves accepted the principles of the French Revolution.
From Data to Despair: The Modernist Method of Lamentabili Sane Exitu
The report’s method—compiling data, noting trends, expressing concern—mirrors the Modernist approach condemned by St. Pius X in the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitu. It treats a moral catastrophe as a “scientific” or “historical” problem to be managed. Proposition 57 of that decree states: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences.” The article implicitly accepts this false dichotomy: either we have “data” and “transparency” (progress), or we have blind traditionalism. It does not comprehend that true progress is the expansion of Christ’s reign, and that the “science” of statistics cannot judge the evil of an act that offends God. The entire tone is one of managerial lament, not prophetic denunciation. It seeks to reform a system that is, by its very nature, an abomination because it is built on the denial of God’s sovereignty.
The Only True Safeguard: The Social Reign of Christ the King
There is only one safeguard against the murder of the vulnerable: the public confession that “all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Christ” (Matt. 28:18, cited in Quas Primas) and that every state law must be conformed to His law. The article, by operating within the conciliar paradigm of “dialogue” and “protecting the vulnerable” within a pluralistic society, is part of the problem. It suggests that assisted suicide can be “regulated” into safety, which is a lie. As Pius XI taught, the duty of rulers is to “publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” for “His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments.” The current “rulers” and their “bishops” have failed this duty utterly, and the database is the bloody fruit of that failure.
The article’s final, unspoken conclusion is that the conciliar sect and the civil governments it tolerates have created a world where 14,000+ documented murders are merely a “policy” problem. This is the logical terminus of the apostasy foretold by St. Pius X: when the Church ceases to teach the immutable moral law with authority, society descends into the barbarism of counting its dead while debating the efficiency of its killing mechanisms. The only remedy is the restoration of the Catholic monarchy, the crushing of the secular state, and the public enthronement of Christ the King—a feast instituted by a true Pope to combat exactly this plague of secularism. The article, by its very omissions, testifies to the spiritual bankruptcy of the age.
Source:
‘Safeguards Are Ignored’ Around Assisted Suicide, Per New Database (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.03.2026