The Culture of Death Loses One — for the Moment
The National Catholic Register portal reports that George Weigel, writing on May 20, 2026, celebrates the defeat of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords on April 24, 2026, as well as the earlier rejection of a similar bill in the Scottish Parliament by a vote of 69-57. Weigel frames this as a setback for the “culture of death” against which “John Paul II” cautioned in the 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae. He credits pro-life organizations and members of the House of Lords, particularly Lord Alton of Liverpool and Lord Moore of Etchingham, for their effective opposition. Weigel cites G.K. Chesterton’s observation that “the dazed dupes will be back again,” quoting Lord Alton’s warning that “eugenics, and the death wish, will keep coming back.” The article references the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program as a cautionary example of euthanasia’s expansion, noting that euthanasia now accounts for approximately one in twenty deaths in Canada. Weigel concludes by calling for both legislative vigilance and expanded access to palliative care. Yet for all its apparent defense of life, the article operates entirely within the framework of the conciliar sect’s compromised moral theology, fails to invoke the full weight of Catholic doctrine on the inviolability of innocent human life, and treats the “culture of death” as a political problem rather than what it truly is: the logical fruit of modernist apostasy and the abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ.
