1. The archbishop of Paris has asked all priests in his archdiocese to celebrate Mass for Vincent Lambert 42-year-old quadriplegic man who is being starved to death in a French hospital. Doctors removed him from food and water on Sunday after a long legal battle. “Today there is a very clear choice facing civilization, Archbishop Michel Aupetit said, “either we consider human beings as functional robots that can be eliminated or scrapped when they are no longer useful, or we consider that the essence of humanity is based, not on the utility of a life, but on the quality of relationships between people which witness to love.”
[Update: Lambert died overnight. God be good to him.)
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https://twitter.com/SoutienVincent/status/1149029309677559808
3. Earlier this week, Pope Francis tweeted “We pray for the sick who are abandoned and left to die.” He added: “Doctors should serve life, not take it away.”
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